Choose These Superfoods to Help You Sleep

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While it’s important to avoid a big, heavy meal right before bed (a full stomach will disturb your sleep), some foods may actually help you sleep. If you’ve had a few nights of restless sleep, make a light whole-wheat-pasta dish with fresh vegetables, a little diced chicken breast, tomato sauce, and a sprinkle of Parmesan [...]

Yum! DIY Winter Cereal – Pomegranate, Almond & Brown Rice Cereal

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If I could wave a magic culinary wand and make one aisle in the grocery store disappear, I’d probably make the cereal aisle vanish. Even when you find a cereal that truly is whole-grain, unsweetened, and tastes as good as it is healthy, you’re going to be paying a lot more for store-bought cereal than [...]

Recipes: Cooking With Whole Grains

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As fresh, increasingly local, produce makes its way into the market, my mind turns to all of the healthful ways I can use this bounty as the long days of summer approach. One thing is for certain, if the sun is shining I don’t want to be toiling in my kitchen cooking elaborate meals! I’d [...]

Whole Grain Goodness

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Ah, to hear those words uttered together…whole grain plus goodness! It wasn’t long ago, you probably recall, that CARBOHYDRATES became the latest “four letter word” of the nutritional world. As often happens with extreme dietary trends like the zero carb frenzy of a few years back, we weren’t really getting the whole story. It turns [...]