It's that time of year again! Time to think about your spring cleaning! Yes, I know–I just posted about cleaning your house with natural products, but I think you know where I'm going with this and you're right–your home isn't the only thing that benefits from a thorough spring cleaning. So can your body! After [...]
My mother hates math and will swear up and down that she's a dunce when it comes to numbers. My father will then roll his eyes and tell you all you have to do is add a dollar sign and a decimal point and her math I.Q. sky-rockets into the genius range. I don't know [...]
Tags: conscious shopping, Healthy Eating
Whoo hoo! My e-book, Conscious Shopping: Making Decisions About What You Eat & How You Buy It," is done!. I'm so excited and it seems like a serendipitous event, since there's all this attention around real food vs. junk food this week. All week, friends and family have been forwarding me links to Mark Bittman's [...]
Tags: conscious shopping, Healthy Eating, junk food, Mark Bittman
I have to quit toast. Well, wheat really. I decided to finally face facts: I’m allergic to wheat—or at least noticeably sensitive—and so I’ve cut it out of my diet. For the most part. Admittedly, I’ve fallen off the wheat wagon a time or two in the last couple weeks. Accidentally on purpose, if you [...]
Tags: blueberries, organic, smoothies, wheat-free
My friends Barbara and Steve have a gallery in Beacon, NY. The Marion Royael Gallery. You should check it out. Anyway, they’re a couple of happy-go-lucky artists–at least from what I can tell. Every time I see them, they’re beaming. As much as I’d like to think it’s because they’re happy to see me, I suspect that they’re [...]
I have no idea how much food I’ve wasted over time, but I know it’s a lot. Between overbuying at the store, not using up leftovers and just forgetting what’s in the fridge, come Monday food that started out perfectly fine has ended up in a bag on the curb. Thoughts swirl in my [...]
I love new beginnings, don’t you? Everything from new notebooks to the changing of the seasons. Cliché? Maybe. But I don’t care. I just spent the better part of yesterday indulging in the guilty pleasure of pop from the 70s and 80s. This year, if it makes me happy it’s fair game. I stopped making [...]
Tags: resolutions, setting goals, setting intentions
Day: 04 Days Left: 26 Some days are just busier than others and I knew today was going to be one of those days. I planned ahead yesterday and made double portions of everything so I could easily stay on track today. I had my local eggs and greens for breakfast and then I [...]
Day: 02 Days Left: 28 In two short days, I’m discovering that this project isn’t just about eating and the shopping and cooking that go with it. I’m thinking more about waste…food that doesn’t get eaten, time that gets eaten up by things that don’t matter, everything that goes into the garbage can. I decided when [...]
Day: 01 Days Left: 29 It’s one thing to talk about accepting a 30-day challenge…to plan for it, gear up for it—it’s quite another to actually do it. Day One has come and gone and I’m so happy! I have to say, it feels really good to move through the saying and into the doing. So [...]
