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Planting your peppers can be much easier than you think!
With the cost of food sky rocketing, you may decide to start planting your own vegetable garden. Chances are you’ll want to plant some tasty peppers.
If gardening is on your list for this spring, nothing can be easier than using Rainbow Peppers to help you plant and grow 5 different colored peppers on 1 plant!
When you plant your peppers in your vegetable garden with Rainbow Peppers, you can enjoy 5 different colored peppers on 1 plant!
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10 reasons why you should eat red cabbage more often?
Feature by our Editorial Assistant Colleen
Red cabbage makes the occasional appearance in my salads I make and it turns out that it’s better for you than green cabbage. Did you know that? I was pretty pleasantly surprised myself but I guess it’s going to take a bit more convincing to get you guys to hop on this red cabbage train.
I hope these healthy facts will help you consider adding some red cabbage in your diet.
>>> Here are 10 facts about red cabbage that may persuade you to eat more of it:
1) You actually get more vitamin C from red cabbage than you do from green cabbage.
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Foods to protect against osteoporosis
Can the foods you eat help protect against osteoporosis?
Here is another one of those articles that you read and think “I really NEED to share this”.
Osteoporosis is a serious health concern threatening women as they age.
It’s known that proper calcium intake and weight training are great ways to help protect your body against osteoporosis, but it seems that there is an important food link between your diet and how well you body can fight off osteoporosis!
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16 Healthy fall vegetable recipes
The other day, I was speaking to someone from Australia who had decided to lose weight.
He changed a lot of his habits. He first started make changes in how many of his favourite alcoholic beverages he drank each week, he started to make better food choices and he started also taking fitness seriously.
I was counselling him on a separate subject and before the end of the conversation, he asked if he could ask me a question that was on his mind and that he felt I could help him on given my background. He asked, “Which vegetables would you recommend to burn belly fat?”
Well, that was a hard one because there is not one specific vegetable that can help burn belly fat, but given that eating vegetables will help you feel fuller and more satisfied you might not have the need to pig out later in the day on foods you should avoid.
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Dr. Oz grocery shopping tips to buying organic foods
Dr. Oz tackled the popular question of “should I be buying organic foods?”
My position on organic foods is quite simple: if I had an Angelina Jolie food budget, I’d buy everything organic. It’s true that organic foods are not purchased exclusively by the very rich (or else it wouldn’t be a billion dollar industry). There are loads of regular people with regular incomes who have made the lifestyle choice of buying organic foods.
I have some items that I’ve been buying organic for a decade now: milk, yogurt and essential oils.
When it comes to eggs, I buy mine free range and I will gladly switch to organic free range eggs when I can get them on sale. When it comes to produce, if there is a sale on organic products, I’ll jump at the occasion and there are certain conventional products (like strawberries) I no longer eat if I cannot buy them organic because I’ve read too much about the amount of pesticides used in the cultivation.
If I could only buy organic meats, I would. Right now, it’s not part of my food budget, but I do buy grain feed meats because they are affordable and they can easily be purchased at the grocery store!
I was a bit surprised to hear Dr Oz admit that organic products can be fairly expensive. It’s important to recognize that, but I was equally happy hear Dr. Oz list some grocery items that should ALWAYS be organic and those that you keep buying conventional.
I actually wrote a post asking readers to share their approach to organic foods with this new recessionary economy. You can still read it here if you’ve missed it: Quizz: Are you still buying as much organic food as before the recession?
>>> Dr. Oz’s suggestions on which food items to buy organic:
I really love these fun games Dr. Oz creates in order to teach the audience about food.
In a recent episode on organic foods he asked two contestants which items should be purchased organic and which are not necessary.
Here is Dr. Oz’s list of MUST when it comes to choosing organic foods:
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I like rapini so much, I could eat it every day!
I still remember when I was a child, our Italian gardener would constantly tell me in Italian: “Mangia la rapini, mangia, mangia, mangia”. I hated rapini as a child because it was so bitter and it was green (aka it was a vegetable and most kids hate veggies and I was no exception).
I didn’t touch rapini for decade and five years ago on a whim I decided to buy a head and attempt to cook it as an alternative to broccoli. I guess the theory that your taste buds change as you get older is true because once I rediscovered rapini as an adult, there was no going back. I’m now as hardcore as any Italian when it comes to my rapini and I love it so much that I will not hesitate to sit in front of a bowl of rapini and have nothing else for lunch (those are days when I have really bad cravings for the veggie).
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Why I am a member of the Slow Food movement
Before being a beauty editor, I used to be a food editor and before that I was a part-time personal chef. Food is just part of who I am. I’m always thinking about food or I’m thinking about a new recipe. I receive four or five weekly newsletters and I’m always hunting for the next great food and flavour combination.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again … if grocery shopping was an Olympic sport, I’d represent my country well!
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Bonnie Plants can help you become an urban gardener
I was having lunch the other day when I saw this advert for Bonnie Plants!
With all this talk about First Lady Michelle Obama growing her own initiative to feed the White House staff and her family with her organic garden and with the impending inflation on groceries (food will get exponentially higher in price … mark my words), it makes a whole lot of sense to find ways of growing any fruits or vegetables you can to save you some money and keep you eating smart!
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