• Cooking,  Health,  Healthy Eating,  Recipes,  Uncategorized

    All About Apples – Storing Them, Fall Recipes and Health Benefits

    Five Health Benefits Of Apples After reading this post, I hope you’ll gain a bigger appetite for apples.  Here’s a few reasons why you should eat more apples… Apples are versatile, portable, inexpensive, and unlike a lot of other fruit, they store well. They also have quite a few surprising health benefits. There’s good reason why we have the saying “An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away”. Here’s some benefit from eating apples regularly. Apples Can Help You Lose Weight Safely Apples make a great snack and are low in calories with only about 90 calories for a medium apple. This humble little fruit is also packed full of…

  • Cooking,  Desserts,  Kitchen Tips,  October,  Recipes,  Uncategorized

    Easy Pumpkin Recipes for the Fall Season

    Benefits of Pumpkin Pumpkin is one of the top ingredients to have in the fall season. Not only is it delicious and seasonal, but it is also low-fat and provides many great health benefits. Consider some of these benefits of enjoying pumpkin throughout the fall season. Pumpkin is a Low-Calorie Food First of all, pumpkin is a very low-fat and low-calorie food that is easy to add to your daily diet regimen. Whether you are trying to eat less carbs or lower calories, pumpkin is a great option. In fact, it is often used as a substitute in cakes and cupcake recipes because it contains excellent nutrition but less fat…

  • Cooking,  Gardening,  Health,  Healthy Eating,  Recipes

    Top 10 Benefits of Rosemary – Learning about herbs

    *Disclaimer: My Amazon referral links have been used in this post. Rosemary has many health benefits for you — from healing skin conditions to improving your mental clarity. Not only does it provide vitamin C to help with collagen in your body, but also provides potassium that helps regulate blood pressure and your heart rate. People use Rosemary for numerous ways to help them heal the body. Here’s the Top 10 Benefits of Rosemary to Improve your Health: 1. Improve your mood 2. Decrease your stress levels 3. Helps with chronic anxiety 4. Relieve your pain 5. Protect your immune system 6. Soothe your stomach 7. Help relieve headaches and…

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    What's for Dinner? Eggs! (Helpful tips and recipes to follow)

    Let’s face it… for those of use who like eggs, they can make a great tasty and SATISFYING meal…and they’re NOT just for breakfast! Free yourself from limiting them to only mornings. 🙂 Since they’re a great source of protein, consider making them whenever you’re needing a quick dinner… and particularly if you don’t have meat thawed…you can still create a quick, healthy meal. Whenever I need a really fast lunch, I’ll simply crack a couple of eggs and fry them up…sometimes I even toss a few spinach leaves on top for the last minute or two to steam them on top of my eggs. About egg nutrition: Eggs are…

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    A Simple Salmon Salad and Our Story of How We Fell in Love with the Beautiful Fish

    Our Story of How We Fell in Love with the Beautiful Fish My hubby and I LOVE salmon.  We first got hooked when we were newlyweds, who loved to gorge ourselves at Golden Corral. Wow, those were the days of misery, because I always spouted off to my hubby, “Eat up! You’ve got to get your money’s worth!” In pain, we’d slowly stroll away after our meal, gently climb into the car, our bellies aching from our over indulgence of an abundant meal. I soon learned that buffets are NOT such a great bargain for the belly after all. 😉 Alas we met…  One fine day, while on our “Belly-Busting…