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Cutting Grocery Costs without Cutting Nutrition Simple, healthy, and affordable ways to weather the rising price of food by Karen Collins, R.D., American Institute of Cancer Research Grocery prices are projected to increase again in 2008 – that’s following 2007’s highest annual increase in 17 years. But surviving these tough economic times doesn’t have to mean sacrificing good nutrition. Some simple strategies can help you cut food costs and eat more healthfully, too.
Madlynn is Kid of the Month Biggest Loser Family Cookbook: Budget-Friendly Meals Your Whole Family Will Love by Devin Alexander, Melissa Roberson As grocery costs continue to rise, many family cooks are finding themselves in a tough predicament: How can they feed their families healthy, satisfying meals without breaking the bank? In The Biggest Loser Family Cookbook, New York Times best-selling author Devin Alexander shows families that eating on a budget can be easy, nutritious—and delicious! With more than 125 recipes that will satisfy every member of the family, Chef Alexander provides complete, affordable options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, along with mix-and-match side dishes, healthy snacks, and desserts. From Broccoli & Cheddar Frittatas to Steak Fajita Quesadillas, Family Sized Meatball Parmesan to Peanut Butter Fudge Sundaes, these wholesome, satisfying dishes will become an essential part of every family cook’s repertoire. In addition to an overview of the Biggest Loser eating plan and Chef Alexander’s recipes, readers will find helpful cooking and cost-saving tips from favorite Biggest Loser contestants and online club members. They will also find simple ways to get kids involved in the kitchen and fun ideas for family. 10 Tips for Improving Your Family's Eating Habits With today’s busy lifestyles, families don’t always eat as healthfully as we would like. But by practicing healthy eating habits at home, you can make it easier for your family to eat right. Try these 10 tips designed to encourage healthy eating habits:
Be a good food role model. Telling children to eat nutritious foods is one thing — showing them is better. If you offer nutritious foods regularly — and if they see you eating them — your children likely will learn to like them.
by Angie Ketterman • Tough, fatty cuts of meat are best for slow cooking. Buy inexpensive cuts like pork butt, pork spare ribs, beef short ribs and beef shoulder.
• Leftovers can do double-duty — use pork butt in pulled pork sandwiches or shred short ribs to serve with rice and beans.
• Potatoes are inexpensive and make soups and stews more filling. You can also try pasta, beans or grains.
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Cooking, Recipes and Healthy EatingIt's tough to run a household, do errands and look after children on a daily basis. On top of it all, we have to cook! Well, we'll try to make it a little easier with some quick and easy recipes and tips that will save you some kitchen time and frustration in the future. If we could only get our kids to wash the dishes every day and our friends and relatives to stop setting up blind dates, then we REALLY would have more time and less frustration!! Make Peaches part of Your Healthy Eating
Fresh, canned or frozen—any way you slice them peaches are a nutritious summer
delight! Peaches are fat free, high in vitamins A and C, and a good source of
lutein (a phytochemical that gives them their red, orange, and yellow color)
which is especially beneficial in the prevention of heart disease and cancer.
StarKist Pasta Salad
a quick healthy dish, ready in 25 minutes
A Healthier Way to Say Olé! Try swapping in tuna for beef in enchiladas; tuna is an excellent source of protein and much lower in fat, saturated fat and cholesterol than many other protein choices. Tuna also has essential vitamins and minerals, and the majority of fat in tuna comes from Omega-3 fatty acids, which help reduce the risk of heart disease. Studies have found that people who eat fish two or more times a week have lower rates of heart disease! Avoid Premature Spoiling of Fruits and Vegetables The secret to keeping your produce fresh longer: Keep them separated.by Michele Bender Ever wonder why your fruit bowl looks like a sixth-grade science project only days after you set it out?
As some fruits and vegetables ripen, they release ethylene, a gas that can cause
other produce to become spotted, soft, or mealy. To prevent this, keep
ethylene-sensitive fruits and vegetables separate from varieties that emit the
gas.
Three Tips to Help Keep Your Resolution to be Fit as a Family
Each New Year brings pledges that this is the year that you and your family
will be healthy and fit. The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a joint
initiative of the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton
Foundation, has some tips to help you kick off the year with a healthy start. The Charms of the Loser Lettuces New York Times Dining & Wine FOR many people, the world of lettuce has changed enormously in the last decade. The standard is no longer head lettuce, but mesclun, or “baby lettuce mix,” or whatever you choose to call the omnipresent pile of variably colored leaves, tissue-thin and textureless. (I’m aware there’s sometimes a bit of radicchio thrown in there for color and flavor, but the amount is insignificant.) 11 Essential Kitchen Items from DailyFork.com We love to eat, and in order to do that and do it well, we must cook (because that's what happens when you live on a freelance writer's budget). Keeping these pantry and/or refrigerator items in our kitchen makes life a lot easier and tastier. The 10-Ingredient Shopping Trip By Tara Parker-Pope and Mark Bittman In his latest “How to Cook Everything” segment on the Today Show, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman makes it surprisingly easy to cook a week’s worth of dinners with just a 10-ingredient shopping trip. Mark assumes you’ve stocked your pantry with easy basics like spices, good cooking oils and vinegars, long-keeping carbs like pasta, rice and udon noodles, as well as soy sauce, garlic, lemon, butter and Parmesan cheese. With these staples, you can just pick up a few fresh ingredients every now and then, and “cook for days at a time,” Mark says. Quick Meals for Less – videos and recipes by Angie Ketterman
Angie Ketterman creates 10 dishes that save you time and money:
Creating Healthy Eating Habits with Children Tips from Shirley Fan, RD Parents play a major role in the development of a child's eating habits and tastes. Our in-house nutritionist, Shirley Fan, RD, put together this list of proven tips to promote healthy eating habits for children:
1. Set a good example Food attitudes of parents are the strongest predictors of food likes and dislikes for children. 2. Create a regular meal schedule Kids will snack less when there are set meals. 3. Have sit-down meals together
Designate family dinner nights to encourage connectedness and conversation. Studies also show that family meals promote healthy eating habits and higher consumption of vitamins and minerals. 4. Do not force or bribe children to finish their plates Stressful situations over food can make kids develop negative feelings around eating.
5. Provide nutritious food Keep fresh fruits and vegetables, low-fat milk and whole grain crackers around for snacks. 6. Encourage exercise Children should get around 60 minutes of exercise most days of the week. It helps strengthen muscles and bones and can help ward off weight problems. SingleMom.com™ Interview with Celebrity Chef Annabel Karmel Author of Complete Party Planner & SuperFoods For Babies and Children
Get a week's worth of recipes, save your favorites, watch our videos and more... all with the Every Day with Rachael Ray widget Calling All Moms - Bring Back Breakfast for Dinner Eggland’s Best Eggs Helps Relieve Moms from Dinner Menu Boredom review source by Amanda Bach
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Family Recipes At SingleMom.com™, we would like to share holiday traditions and tastes. We also have some traditional and favorite family recipes some of our moms sent in. If you would like to submit your recipes, write to us at Contact@SingleMom.com Ten Tips for a Healthier Thanksgiving from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation Thanksgiving provides the perfect opportunity to make healthier choices for your family meal. The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, founded by the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, suggests the following tips to ensure a healthy and delicious Thanksgiving meal:
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Top 8 Tips for Reducing Kids Screen Time This Summer Reducing time spent in front of televisions and computers is one of the easiest ways to improve your family's health. Here are eight simple ways to limit screen time so you can help crank up your kids’ energy, re-charge their minds, and improve their health. What would you change? Weekly Column, by Annette Bridges Change -- some people dread it, and others can’t get enough. It may be much like the idiom, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” When it comes to what we would alter or why we would make a modification, the answers vary because we all have different things we value, want, need and consider important.
Being a Role Model by Laurie Cesario-Overton If I had to choose one sentence that would best describe what I feel parents need to learn, it would be this: Be your child's BEST ROLE MODEL in all the ways that truly count. Be your child's HERO. Whatever you do, do it for all the right reasons. How to Find the Best Car Loans for Single Moms Financial Advice for Single Moms The best car loans for single mothers might be just around the corner at your local car lot. 3 Money Rules for Stay-at-Home Moms
As we all know, life is unpredictable. We lose jobs, get divorced and even become widowed...
You May Have Too Much Debt But You Also Have Options How Life Works If you feel like you're in over your head with personal debt, you're not alone. Millions of Americans have become overextended, many as a result of easy credit and the recessions. Credit cards, medical bills, personal loans and raising interest rates do not make a good financial mix. Could fat babies mean fat toddlers?
A new study from Harvard Medical School found that babies who gained weight quickly had a sharply higher risk of obesity. The study followed close to 600 babies and found those in the top quarter of weight for their length at 6 months had a 40 percent higher risk of obesity by age 3 than smaller babies. Crystal Bowersox - A Single Mom And A Real American Idol Read how the amazing Crystal Bowersox. the runner-up of American Idol Season 9, handles fame and life as a single mom, raising her 17 month old son. 5 Ways for Single Moms to Save Money Single moms are always looking for ways to save money, and for good reason... It’s important to find ways to cut corners on the little things that perhaps you don’t think about too often, because those are usually where your biggest money drains are. Suze Orman's Recession Rescue Plan - helps you survive in times of financial crisis OPRAH.com Do you know what your family would do if you lost your job - or worse, your home? Financial expert Suze Orman is ready to help you devise a recession rescue plan to survive - and possibly thrive - during this deepening financial crisis... Your Just-in-Case Emergency Plan by RealSimple Who do you call if you can't make it home in time to meet the kids' bus? Who do you trust to take in your mail when you're on vacation? Who do you trust with the extra set of keys to your house? How to save $10,000 By Liz Pulliam Weston If you were hoping for a list of small tweaks you could make in your spending to save $10,000 a year, sorry. The reality is that $10,000 is a lot of money. And saving big money usually means making big changes in the areas where we spend the most, such as: Housing, Transportation, Food. The Super, Sexy, Single Mom on a Budget by Renee Rayles A quick reference guide designed for the busy, single mom who has little time to read while running the mom taxi, cooking dinner, helping with homework, and trying to fit in a date night every now and then.
Single Mothers & Single mothers carry an enormous load of responsibility, especially those having sole and/or primary custody of minor children. They nourish, they nurture, they teach, they discipline, they shelter, they protect, and they provide… all without the assistance of another equally-invested adult. Mom's Obesity Raises Newborn's Heart Risk from the National Institute of Health The more obese a woman is when she becomes pregnant, the greater the likelihood that her newborn baby will have a congenital heart defect, a new study suggests. The finding raises concerns because 1 in 5 women are obese at the start of pregnancy in the United States. The 10-Ingredient Shopping Trip By Tara Parker-Pope and Mark Bittman ... In his latest “How to Cook Everything” segment on the Today Show, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman makes it surprisingly easy to cook a week’s worth of dinners with just a 10-ingredient shopping trip. Your 5-minute guide to protecting your identity 20 steps to protect yourself from identity theft, and seven ways to clean up things if you become a victim. TheOnlineMom.com offers parents and consumers a guide to the top-rated, age-appropriate, kid-tested and parent-approved tech toys and gifts. Single Moms in the News
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney For those wondering why tween boys don’t read very much, the answer is that more books aren’t like this... Ice Cream Tips Make the easiest dessert even simpler
• Scoop in advance for a crowd. To serve ice cream quickly and in well-shaped spheres, scoop it up to several hours before needed, place balls evenly on a wax-paper lined sheet, cover with plastic wrap and store in the freezer until needed.
Cocktail and Dinner Party Menus There was a day when entertaining a crowd meant making an extra big pot of chile con carne or spaghetti sauce. And while that certainly remains a possibility... |
