Pasta is only healthy if you make good choices. Luckily, there are so many ways to improve it's nutritional value. And a lot comes down to the spaghetti sauce. Make the wrong spaghetti sauce choice and you'll have a high carb meal overflowing with sugar. These sugars are super sneaky and you might not even know they're there. But most conventional brands add sugar to their recipe. So what's a … [Read more...] about Best No Sugar/Low Carb Spaghetti Sauce
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Trader Joe’s Cauliflower Gnocchi – My Review
Cauliflower is all the rage these days. You’ll find it in everything from mashed potatoes to pizza crusts to rice stir frys. So I was so amazingly fired up when I heard of Trader Joe’s Cauliflower Gnocchi. The very concept filled me with anticipation. I love that cauliflower can substitute for so many starchy foods. And given my husband’s addiction to gnocchi (he’s Italian, so what can you … [Read more...] about Trader Joe’s Cauliflower Gnocchi – My Review
10 Sneaky Ways To Feed Vegetables To Your Kids (Or Other Picky Eaters)
I have an abundance of sympathy for my mother. Because getting vegetables in my mouth was like Indiana Jones facing the Temple of Doom or like Harry Potter facing Voldemort. Dinner equaled drama in my house. You could hear the sobbing for miles. So now that I’m a health and diet coach (who eats my vegetables with nary a tear), what do I say with parents struggling to stuff the green stuff … [Read more...] about 10 Sneaky Ways To Feed Vegetables To Your Kids (Or Other Picky Eaters)
Zoodles: The Magical, Healthy Pasta
I'm gonna let you in on a secret. I'm a complete carb addict. And by carb addict I mean I love those emotionally satisfying but not so healthy carbohydrates like bread, pasta, bagels, and muffins. Sure I'm a food and diet coach, but I'm only human. And carbohydrates are my vice. And this is precisely why I love zoodles. What are zoodles you ask? Good question! Zoodles are vegetables that have … [Read more...] about Zoodles: The Magical, Healthy Pasta
