Vegetables


Kale vs Spinach - which green is the best?

It seems like a day doesn’t go by that we either hear “eat your greens” or “drink your greens”. Most people I talk to either favor kale or spinach as their green vegetable of choice. I have been putting about 1/3 pound of spinach (5 handfuls) in my morning green smoothies and I’ve been drinking [...]
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Organic Spinach from China

If you are one of my awesome LTF readers, you know I eat a ton of fresh spinach in my weight loss green smoothies. And if you are new here, welcome! I buy the big plastic tubs of organic spinach and use about 3-4 of them a week. It’s definitely the most expensive part of [...]
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Raw Mushroom Salad Recipe

Check out my first raw mushroom salad recipe – I really enjoyed it! If you haven’t checked out Raw Food Rehab’s community site or their Facebook page, you should do that now. Penni Shelton founded the very popular site and she is an amazing inspiration and motivator for healthy living. While I am not 100% [...]
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chicken lettuce wrap

For this week’s recipe, I wanted to try a lettuce wrap. No idea where this urge came from but it seemed like it would make for a great presentation and could hold a full meal inside the wrap versus the entree/side dish in the past recipes. I spent some time researching the right type of [...]
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My nutritional goal this month is to find and make a recipe each week. The idea is to push me into trying new foods but also to create a database of recipes that I can pull from anytime instead of eating the same grilled chicken every night. My first recipe is a variation of the [...]
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