Frugal Menus

Is Your Food HEALING You?

February 9th, 2011

Maybe you are aware that eating the right food leads to better health, but it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all the information out there!

What if some of the foods you eat actually LEAD to illness?
How do you know what food is right for you?
How do you stop overeating?
What would your doctor say about healing with food?

Where do you begin?

http://foodsheal.com/book

It’s time to get every question you have about food and healing answered once and for all!

Foods Heal: Why Certain Foods Help You Feel Your Best is a comprehensive manual for understanding overeating, food allergies, obesity, and how imbalance creates disease in the mind-body.

The author, Dr. Bill Dean, a physician and surgeon, presents useful tips and simple solutions for healing your body with food.

This is a book about disease prevention and understanding the role of food in enjoying a healthy body.

http://foodsheal.com/book

Dr. Dean writes in FOOD HEALS: “ . . .‘Food is medicine and medicine is food’—to paraphrase, foods heal. But the converse is also true: Foods can also make you sick or cause dis-ease.

Just because you eat something and it doesn’t make you feel bad immediately doesn’t mean that it’s not making you sick.

This is why you MUST educate yourself so you become more proactive in avoiding foods that can cause you harm.

This book empowers you with the best, practical ways to customize the foods you eat.

Dr. Dean introduces disease prevention topics like:
• An overview of the science of energy healing
• Understanding energetic nutrition and digestive health
• How imbalance causes dis-ease and solutions for healing
• What the mind body energy field is and why it’s so important
• How to determine your specific type for optimum health
• What foods work for your type and what foods don’t
• How specific flavors affect health
• Understanding food choices and your future health
• How to follow nature’s rhythm for better health
• Practical convenient tools to affect lifestyle change
}

foods-heal

foods-heal

PS. It’s time to get every question you have about food and healing answered once and for all! THESE ARE NOT AFFILIATE LINKS - I DO NOT RECEIVE ANY COMPENSATION FOR THIS BOOK.

http://foodsheal.com/book

  • Share/Save/Bookmark

Heat Up Game Day

February 3rd, 2011

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of TABASCO® Original Red. All opinions are 100% mine.

I pulled into the parking lot at Sams yesterday only to discover that the place was PACKED!  Then I realized why.   It’s all the smart shoppers, the planners, that are out buying their super bowl weekend food on schedule.

Then I thought, oh no.  Hope Sams still has everything I need.

I shouldn’t have worried.  There was enough of everything to go around. I like to serve a variety of food when we have get togethers, don’t you? And I make sure that I always have enough  TABASCO® Original Red on hand.

The guys like it on everything! TABASCO® Original Red is a game day tradition! It enhances the flavor of food so you can get the best of every bite. Try it on pizza instead of those little shaker peppers.  TREMENDOUS!

Try it on fried chicken livers!  OUT OF THIS WORLD!   Of course you can put it on anything but I like to use it anytime you might consider using jalapenos or salsa.   (IN WHITE CREAM GRAVY)

You can get further inspiration and game day party menus at

Game-Day Party Menu

- Don’t forget the Pizza Perfected page as well:

Pizza PerfectedPizza Perfected

Original Red has been around since 1868 and was the first sauce introduced by the McIlhenny family and continues to be their most popular sauce of 6 total sauces.

LOTS of Tabasco

LOTS of Tabasco

Visit Sponsor's Site

  • Share/Save/Bookmark

Quiznos Coupon

February 1st, 2011

Something about being snowed in,,,, you get hungry for the things that you can’t have.

Like Quiznos….. I like the turkey, bacon and guacamole on wheat…. yummmmm.

If you’re where there’s no snow. Get your Quiznos coupon and go!

  • Share/Save/Bookmark

Feed the Birds During Bad Weather

February 1st, 2011

The blizzard conditions here completely blanketed the ground with inches upon inches of snow. The birds can’t get to fallen seed and seedpots are encrusted in snow or ice.

So, I trudged out there to the birdfeeder, and filled it back up. They’d eaten it dry. So dry that the awful wind created a small snowdrift inside the feeder. Strong winds.

Birds are happy now. Lots of black sunflower seeds. Easy to find in the snow.

Bird looking for food in the snow

Bird looking for food in the snow

cardinal

cardinal

  • Share/Save/Bookmark

Diabetic Meals

January 23rd, 2011

Do you have a diabetic in your household? Do you have a diabetic that’s still just not getting it? Are you in charge of meals?

You need this new diabetic cookbook. We’re talking low-carb meal plans that are easy to cook/make/prepare and fit entirely into what your diabetic should be eating. If you’re in charge, they may never even know that these recipes are designed for a diabetic, they’re that good!

You’ll find free tools to manage your Diabetes - Make a Healthy Meal Plan in Minutes. The Best of Diabetic Connect Low-Carb Recipes Includes: More than 60 delicious, healthy recipes 10g of carbs or less per serving—in every recipe. Pork, chicken, beef, desserts, soups, salads and much more. Check it out!

  • Share/Save/Bookmark

After School

January 22nd, 2011

For millions of parents around the world, the day does not end with the school bell. There are still pictures to be painted, songs to be sung and games to be played. This all adds up to keeping children happy, safe and out of trouble. But, parents have to steer away from going overboard.

After school is not baby-sitting:
After school activities thrive only if it is backed by sufficient parental involvement. What would a soccer match be without parents cheering their little heroes from the sidelines?.

Research and choose:
Instead of convenience being the decisive factor, find out things that will interest your child. Once you select a program, get the fine print and find out what you have to contribute.

Free time:
Many children attend piano classes, followed by ballet and squeeze in some time for play dates in between just before they rush home in time for bed. This rigor is too much for a child. So, go slow.

When to quit:
Often, parents enroll their child in an activity to discover that he may not be the prodigy they thought he would be. This is the time to let go. Your child may not become the next wonder-kid. But, let him cultivate an interest that he enjoys. Remember, happiness and fulfillment are all that matter.

Guest Post

chalk

chalk

  • Share/Save/Bookmark

Jalapeno Jelly

January 3rd, 2011

Oh Man.

You don’t know good until you’ve had some of this!

jalapeno pepper jelly

jalapeno pepper jelly

I was gifted some of this for Christmas! YEAH! I love this stuff.

It’s sweet.

It’s HOT.

Man it’s good.

jalapeno pepper jelly on toast

jalapeno pepper jelly on toast

I hope the Jellypreneur keeps on making this as I’m hoarding the one I have! (Hidden in the fridge behind the mayo - don’t tell Chili-man!)

  • Share/Save/Bookmark

The Dog That Don’t Live Here

January 2nd, 2011

If you’ve followed me for any time at all, you probably know that I feed stray dogs.

I fed a dog on the corner of 180th & Rock Creek for over a year!

One day as I slowed to feed that dog (Rocky because he was on Rock Creek Road) there was a lady there feeding him CANNED dog food. I stopped to talk to her. She’d been feeding him TOO! for months! He was just now letting her pet him. He disappeared shortly after that. I HOPE she took him home.

Anyhow, there always seems to be a starving dog on that road. I don’t know IF they live around there (I seriously suspect that they belong to this one house….) or if they get dumped, but there’s always a hungry dog there.

Meet my new ‘dog that doesn’t live here’…

Dog that doesn't live here

Dog that doesn't live here

I met her a couple of months ago, along that same stretch of road where Rocky was, and where I’ve fed other dogs….

She comes running when she sees me.

Dog that doesn't live here

Dog that doesn't live here

See her run? She’s a happy dog.

She wasn’t happy the first day I saw her. She was thin, VERY thin, her ribs were showing, her hip bones were protruding, and she was pregnant.

Poor poor thing. How could anyone starve a dog, or dump a pregnant dog?

I’ve no ‘before’ pictures, but you can sure tell that I’ve fattened her up!

Dog that doesn't live here

Dog that doesn't live here

Yes, that’s store bought dog food! I also carry bread, dog bones, and leftovers over there.

She’s happy now and full, and NO I can’t take ANYMORE home with me! I’m at the limit already. But I can carry food with me, and go out of my way, every single day to make sure that she has a full tummy.

  • Share/Save/Bookmark

December 26th, 2010

  • Share/Save/Bookmark

Grillin’

December 15th, 2010

Earlier this year, we bought a grill. A big old honkin’ grill.

Then we started cooking all our meals outside.

Today it reached 70 here although it felt a little cool to me and I seriously considered firin’ up the grill!

How many people cook outside all year long?

Quite a few actually. There are groups devoted to cooking outside, barbeques, and grilling and smoking foods.

Have you ever had your favorite cut of meat cooked over hickory? How about apple? Or maple?

Oh man, you don’t know ‘what’ you’re missing!

Once you start, you can’t stop! You’ll start cooking everything on the grill and I mean everything.

How about smoked eggs?

smoked_egg

smoked_egg

You can find recipes galore like ‘how to smoke eggs’ as well as a ton of grilling tips online.

Try it!

How about smoked holiday ham?

My mouth’s watering already!

  • Share/Save/Bookmark