Enlightened Eater

The Mediterranean is hot, hot, hot. No I’m not referring to the weather but to the eating pattern. The Med Diet has been making headlines around the world all week. No doubt you have heard about the major study published this week in the new England Journal of Medicine which showed that subjects at high […]

From my book, The Enlightened Eater’s Whole Foods Guide, here’s a quick sauté with the taste of apple pie minus all the work and the fat.  Serve over vanilla frozen yogurt or Greek yogurt. l Sautéed Maple Apple Slices Makes 4 servings 3  Golden Delicious apples 2 tsp  (10  mL)  fresh lemon juice 1 tbsp  […]

Soup is not just a super appetite tamer. At this time of year, with the frigid temperatures outdoors, it feels like a necessity. A bowl of  butternut squash can certainly hit the spot. Save on your sodium counts and food dollars by making your own  at home. Butternut squash is packed with carotenoids – the […]

Have you heard about The Kale Project? It began as an initiative to reintroduce this nutrition-packed leafy green vegetable to Paris. Reintroduce? It seems that the French had too much of these vegetables during the time of food shortages during World War II. The French might want to take a lesson from the Mediterranean Diet. It, […]

What’s on the menu is critical to reaping breakfast’s rewards. Having a high carb breakfast, especially one with mainly quickly digested carbohydrates – bagel with cream cheese, a monster muffin, toast, a sugar-laden instant breakfast bar or shake  or even just cereal and fruit –  won’t help you lay the foundation of healthy eating. Neither […]

Here we go again- it’s time for New Year’s resolutions, many of which you make year after year but somehow never follow through on. And I would venture a bet that eating healthy or losing weight is at the top of many of your past New Year’s lists. This year, why not aim for success […]

While making soup from scratch used to be nothing out of the ordinary for most cooks, nowadays the thought of it can be very intimidating to many. In reality, though, cooking up a pot of soup doesn’t require much in the way of culinary skills.  But the real deal does require some good ingredients and […]

Chances are you’ve already come across countless strategies on how to survive the holiday season in roughly the same shape as you started.  But there’s one weapon against overeating that’s far superior to others: eating a steaming hot bowl of soup, particularly one chock full of chunky veggies,  before you hit the party circuit or […]