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It’s been a warm winter in my home state of Wisconsin. I think the warm weather has flipped on my internal craving for fresh, homegrown fruits and vegetables a little earlier than normal. I do appreciate the warmer continents supplying America with produce during our down seasons, however, when I can, I make local homegrown fruits and vegetables a part of my healthy eating habits. I do this by purchasing locally grown, in-season, produce.
Over the last 20 years, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has become a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer. In addition, it’s a great way to eat healthy, often organic, fruits and vegetables.
A Journey to Live Fit and Healthy
When I think of what it means to Live Fit and Healthy, I think of healthy eating and regular exercise. For me, it started with a change of attitude, a decision to eat healthier and to exercise more often. I started making better healthy eating decisions, resulting in more energy and feeling good. This led me to a commitment to regular exercise. Exercising regularly, comined with healthy eating led to weight loss and muscle tone, which encouraged me to continue making healthy living choices. For me, it all started with a change of attitude.
Okay, it’s Valentine’s Day and Americans will consume over 58 million pounds of chocolate candy today. I thought it was only appropriate to look at the history of chocolate and some interesting facts.
Mini Taco Bowls
Servings 3 (2 bowls per serving)
Prep Time - 10 min.
Cook Time - 15 min.
Total Time - 25 min.
These mini taco bowls are delicious and easy to make. Using 95% lean ground beef or lean ground turkey makes this meal a healthy eating option. Your entire family will enjoy this twist on their favorite mexican meal. You will find this recipe in our recipe database and our monthly meal plans.
Is Weight Watchers the best Weight-Loss diet?
U.S. News came out with their annual Best Diets rankings again. They evaluated 25 of the most popular diets and determined the best diets in 7 different categories:
Best Overall Diets
Vitamin D - Sources and Benefits
Okay, so you’ve decided to live healthy, eat a healthy diet, and follow a meal plan. Congratulations, these are great steps to live fit and healthy. You did some research, checked with your doctor, and maybe checked out a few healthy living blogs. Fantastic! You are on your way to a healthier you.
Dietary fiber: Essential for a healthy diet
Ok, so you’ve made a decision to eat healthy, but what does fiber have to do with a healthy diet? Everybody tells you to eat more fiber, but do you know why? Here are the top 5 benefits of fiber.
Ten Foods that look like body parts
I came across a blog from Women’s Day and thought I’d share the highlights with you. Please checkout the complete blog at Women's Day.
Nutrition Facts: These foods look like body parts and they bring important nutrients to those parts! At Live Fit and Healthy, we utilize these foods in our monthly meal plans.
Top 5 Diet Tips
There are nine essential amino acids, which constitute the building blocks of protein. Eating high-quality sources of protein have the following health benefits:
Eat out lessWhat should I eat?
That’s a great question! The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture has been producing food guides since 1916.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO). For most of my cooking and almost all of my salad dressings.
Vinegar. Homemade salad dressing takes less than a minute to prepare. Get rid of the store-bought stuff and make your own. It's cheaper and it taste better. There's all kinds of homemade recipes on the internet.
I love a nice cold ripe cantaloupe, especially with some blueberries and strawberries on the side. I had no idea how to select a ripe cantaloupe and my produce guy at my local chain store was useless. He always had an answer, but it was never the correct one.
Avocado's are a great source of good fat's and nutrition, but how do you pick a ripe avocado?
Here's a few simple tips that will help you find ripe avocado's.
Pears are one of a few fruits that do not ripen successfully on the tree. They are picked when they have reached full size but have not started ripening. If they are left on the tree to ripen, they become mealy and unpleasant. Therefore, pears at the grocery store are often not yet ripe, so it is important to be able to identify a ripe pear that is ready to be eaten before taking a bite.
How to Tell if a Passion Fruit is Ripe
Look at the Skin
If the skin of the passion fruit is wrinkly that is a good sign. A wrinkled passion fruit indicates ripeness and sweetness. A passion fruit with smooth and shiny skin is unripe.
While peaches are ready as early as May and available until late September, peach season is at its peak in July and August.
Yes, it is possible to choose the ripest pineapple your local grocery store offers. Notice my words here. I said the ripest avaiable. That's because growers often pick pineapples before they are prime and once picked they don't ripen any further.
Over the years I've asked many a produce manager/district manager and I've come up with 5 easy steps to picking the ripest pineapple available.
Steps to Healthy Eating
I recently read a nice article giving 10 tips for eating healthy. I thought the article made some valid points and thought I’d share them. For the full article, check out http://www.helpguide.org/life/healthy_eating_diet.htm#authors.
