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Food

What’s for lunch? Whatever-you’ve-got chicken salad

May 15, 2012

I wrote recently that I’m trying to eat more mindfully rather than just eating toast all day because it’s easy and convenient. For the most part I’m doing pretty well. It’s easy enough to make an egg or dish out some yogurt at breakfast time, and I’ve become disciplined enough about dinner time that most [...]

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4 reasons we eat out too much – and how to break the cycle

April 18, 2012

In Monday’s post about tightening up our family finances, I mentioned that we have been eating out too much lately, and several of you admitted that you’re in the same boat. So how to cut down on the restaurant meals? Well, it helps to know why you’re turning to them in the first place. I [...]

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Mindful Monday: eat better, today, tomorrow, and the next day. (and so on.)

March 26, 2012

I’m working at Panera right now, and I am not eating a cream-cheese pastry, even though I would really, really like to be. Such is evidence of my Mindful Monday intention for the week: eat better, and keep eating better. As you know if you’re a regular reader, I’ve been working out for quite some [...]

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Indoor grilling: a cure for end-of-winter woes?

March 9, 2012

The other day it was 60 or so degrees out: warm, breezy, and sunny. Today, it’s supposed to reach a high of 31 degrees. Funny how at this time of year, just one degree below freezing can feel like defeat. But there’s the promise of 51, 52, 55-degree days in the very near future. I’m [...]

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My family-pleasing go-to meals…

March 6, 2012

On my post last week about what my mother taught me about getting dinner on the table, a reader asked for the list of “staple” meals that are in our regular rotation. As I was writing it out I realized how many of them are the classic, meat-centric meals I grew up on. We’re veggie [...]

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What my mom taught me about getting dinner on the table

March 1, 2012

When I was a little girl, I had dinner with my family – my mom and whichever older siblings were still at home – every night. I don’t remember my mom ever making a big deal about it, and as a divorced, working mother running a daycare out of our home, she certainly didn’t spend [...]

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Getting past an end-of-winter slump with easy one-pot meals

February 15, 2012

This post is part of a series sponsored by Nature’s Kitchen from Vick’s Nature Fusion. I’m skirting the edges of my annual end-of-February slump, in which I start getting excited for spring while at the same time trying to remember that March in Michigan can be a looong month. The unusually mild weather this year [...]

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