Avoid buying “convenience” foods like frozen dinners if you can. They’re usually way too high in salt and fat. If you’re short on time, make fresh salads and healthy sandwiches instead.
Hold the corned beef, but bring on the cabbage! Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with more of the green. Cabbage is one of the healthiest foods you can eat. It’s a good source of vitamin C, potassium and fiber and cancer-fighting compounds, too. More Healthy Monday Tips
Watch Chef Keith Snow’s cooking video and try this easy St Patrick’s Day cabbage recipe at home.
There are many reasons to include fish in your weekly meal plan. The health benefits of fish are many including: low in carbs, high in protein and high in omega 3’s.
This quick video, set the music of Brian Wilson’s Beach Boy’s song “Wouldn’t It Be Niceâ€, is a fun entertaining way of spreading the message about healthy food choices to kids (and parents!)
Learn about the benefits and joy of seasonal, organic and local foods and cooking at harvesteating.com. Chef Snow, founder of harvesteating.com, has 20 years of culinary experience and shares his knowledge and tips on the website and in his streaming recipe videos.
Chef Snow shares a wonderful array of quality healthy cooking videos offering simple recipes and directions for preparing and cooking healthy and organic foods and dishes.
Try some new seasonal and local food recipes which are healthier for you and the planet!
Do you dread the daily “what’s for dinner” question? Try planning weeknight meals ahead of time, so you can shop and prepare a balanced meal without getting stressed out.
Making healthier and environmentally conscious choices can be a challenge any time of year but especially during the holidays. The December Mambo Sprouts Health E-News offers simple tips, ideas, and savings for a healthy green holiday season.
Check out the delicious healthy recipe makeovers and prize winning,organic recipes for holiday cooking. Green tips include eco-friendly holiday decorating tips,earth friendly energy saving LED lighting, environmentally friendly javalogs, and eco-entertaining hints for hosting a sustainable dinner party.
It’s easier than you think to improve your diet! Make just one small change at a time. Why not start by eating a good breakfast? Research shows that eating breakfast will actually help you eat fewer total calories a day.
Here’s an easy low-fat cooking technique! Refrigerate soups – prepared or homemade – before you eat them. That makes it easy to skim excess fat off the top before you reheat.
Where the health can you eat around here? There are healthy dining options in towns and cities all over. Take the initiative to put together your own guide to the healthy local dining, including organic, seasonal, vegetarian and “green” eats near your home, school, home or workplace.
Download and customize this healthy dining guide for your school, worksite or community. Use the nutritional guidelines below to help determine which places to include – after all, what’s a healthy eating guide without the health part?
You can even sell ads in the guide to offset the cost of printing. Then place the guides in key locations in your office, factory,at your group or organization’s meeting locations, on your college campus, and share them with family and friends.
Encourage everyone to eat healthy when they eat out. Not only will they thank you — but you’ll leave behind a legacy of good health for future generations.
The lazy days of summer are upon us, as children are home for summer vacation more are spending time in front of the television and online than they do during the school year. Aside from missing out on the school routine, healthy meals, organized family meals and daily exercise or sport programs, kids are often snacking on unhealthy foods. With a little planning and prodding we can help our children make healthier summer eating choices and encourage them to get more exercise and fresh air. Read some tips from Business Week’s article and discover some children’s books to encourage kids to make healthy food choices.
Business Week points out that according to the American Journal of Public Health the Body Mass Index (BMI) of school aged children was higher in the summer months rather than the school year.
Whole Foods Market serves up fresh new organic and healthy recipe ideas in their ‘Secret Ingredient Video Blog’. Tune in every Monday to see host Scott Simons’ new secret ingredient recipe video or check out the archived recipes and you’ll be on your way to cooking new, tasty and interesting meals.
Whole Foods provides a high quality video and their hope is that, “viewers will tune in to get turned on to simple yet special ingredients to prompt inspiration and excitement in the kitchen.”
Learn more about the videos here!
Click here for free printable healthy and organic recipes from Mambo Sprouts. We make it easy to discover healthy new recipes and cook fresh organic food dishes. Featuring easy to prepare recipes in a variety of recipe categories- there’s a recipe for every taste!
The summer season is a great time to make a smoothie to stay cool, hydrated, and it provides you with high quality nutrients from fresh, local and organic produce.
Chef Keith Snow presents a quality video showing how to make a fruit smoothie using organic and natural ingredients. In under three minutes he takes you through the simple steps to make your own healthy smoothie.
You can also omit the dairy ingredients and use these food exchanges in the recipe to meet your own tastes or dietary preferences. For example, instead of milk you can use soy milk, lactose-free milk, rice milk, or yogurt.
Barbecue Season has begun and the Sierra Club Blog has some timely advice on how to grill greener and have a healthier bbq.
They give some easy tips such as which kind of grill to use and how to plan your barbecue to minimize environmental impact and health risks. Read more here Sierra Club Blog: Healthy- Green Grilling Tips
Adding more vegetables and fruits to your diet with healthy snacks:
The best tip for healthy snacking is to wash, cut, and prepare your favorite vegetables then store them in your refrigerator at eye level (best if it is stored in a see through bowl or container), this way when you go looking for a snack you see the healthy snack alternative.
For the die-hard chip fans - check out the isles at your local organic food market, there some great low-fat vegetable, pita or soy chips on the market.
To make vegetable snacks even more appealing try some low-fat healthy dips.
When you want something sweet it is easy to reach for favorite unhealthy snack. But if you start reaching for the healthy alternatives this will begin to change your habits! Before you know it you will be eating healthier choices without much effort.
Remember not eating enough fruits and vegetables daily is only a habit or routine that can be changed by trying these tips for appealing and healthy alternatives. Many of us who often choose the sweet, salty, and high fat snacks can gradually take steps that will increase our fruits and vegetables as part of daily meal planning.
The good news is once you start a ‘new healthy habit’ of adding more fruits and vegetables to your meals this will become a part of your new routine and become your new healthy habit! To reinforce the positive change many of us will notice that we feel healthier, lose weight, like the feeling of taking positive steps for long term personal wellness, and it’s impact to decrease our risk of chronic health conditions.
These are all positive motivating reinforcements to increase the chances that these small steps to live healthier, organically, and greener will stick and lead you to a healthier lifestyle one step at time. Soon you may naturally begin to want to reach for more the healthier snack alternatives
Share your own favorite tips on how you enjoy more nutritious organic fruits and vegetables; “Comment” below.
Recent studies show that many of us are not getting our daily requirements of fruits and vegetables and that to maintain or increase health we should eat organic fruits and vegetables.
This calculator (http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/) lets you know exactly what the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables are for your age, gender, and activity level.
Start the day with healthy organic breakfast, lunch, and snack recipes containing fresh fruits and vegetables.
Here are some easy tips to add more fruits and vegetables to start your day:
According to the latest public health studies Americans are still not eating enough fruit and vegetables everyday. This is a simple change we can all make to improve our health. In fact, the government started a campaign, Healthy People 2010, that was started in 2000 to improve people’s health. One of the main interests of the campaign is to promote increasing intake of fruits and vegetables for health.
Adding more fruit and vegetables to your daily diet is healthier in many ways. For one, it is linked to lower incidence of chronic diseases. The increased fiber, vitamins, and minerals help our bodies to maintain wellness. Also, because fruit and vegetables pack fewer calories for the equivalent volume of processed foods, a diet high in these ingredients helps people keep their weight down.
With a little planning we can learn easy ways to increase our daily consumption of fruits and vegetables. Mambo Sprouts and Meatless Monday both provide nutritious and easy to make fruit and vegetable-rich recipes that will help you to meet this goal. In addition, with Mambo Sprouts coupons you can save money buying organic food staples – these savings can be added to your food budget to buy more tasty fruits and vegetables. Check back soon or sign up for our Blog RSS updates as we will be sharing new recipes and tips to add more vegetables and fruits for your diet.
It’s the luck of the Irish! Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, have you seen these meatless recipes for Irish Soda Bread, Smoked Fish Chowder and other Irish fare? Also there is some interesting insight about the real history of potatoes in Ireland at www.meatlessmonday.com.
Have you noticed that eating your veggies—and fruits, grains, legumes, seeds and nuts – is now “inâ€? Gone are the days when vegetarian meant buying tofu from your local health food store. These days, it’s easy to “go veggie†given the increased availability and selection and great tasting vegetarian food and meatless recipes. Whether you shop at a traditional grocery store, local natural health food store or natural gourmet market such as Whole Foods, Wild Oats or Trader Joe’s, your choices for vegetarian and plant-based fare abound…
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Where the health can you eat around here? There are healthy dining options in towns and cities all over. Take the initiative to put together your own guide to the healthy local dining, including organic, seasonal, vegetarian and “green” eats near your home, school, home or workplace.
