Healthy Snack Ideas

How to Give Gifts that Give Back

While this is not a post about healthy snacks, I thought I'd post it here because if you are interested in your good health and the health of your family, then chances are you have a big heart that wants to reach out and help others. At this time of year when the focus seems [...]

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Embracing the Raw and Living Foods Lifestyle for Natural Healing

I wanted to share this amazing episode from one of my favorite podcasts, The Healthtopia Radio Show, with host Bonnie Mechelle on Blog Talk Radio. On this episode, Bonnie Mechelle interviews Brenda Cobb, founder of the Living Foods Institute in Atlanta. Ms. Cobb talks about how she cured herself of breast and ovarian cancer with [...]

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Healthy Snack Ideas Blog is on AllTop!

I was tickled beyond belief to get the email this morning that my Healthy Snack Ideas blog has been added to AllTop! Woo Hoo! (Yes, that's me cheering and doing the happy dance.) I submitted my blog over six months ago, and to be honest, I had kind of given up on it and forgotten [...]

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Probiotic Healthy Snacks

Enjoy this guest post by Charles Jones. Probiotic food and snacks are promoted as the healthier alternative to common everyday snacks. The probiotic healthy component is derived from live beneficial microorganisms that have been introduced in sufficient amounts in the food base or in specific ingredients. Probiotic food and snacks are often used to complement [...]

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Herbs, Fruits, and Vegetables That Have Healing Properties

Please enjoy this guest post by Charles Jones: Our kitchen pantry and backyard garden are a source of natural home-based remedies that can be used in place of over the counter medicines. Select herbs, fruits and vegetables are imbued with natural healing properties that are known and utilized by older generations to prevent, relieve, and [...]

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Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for Mom’s Who Love to Cook

As the author of this blog, we should really just cut to the chase and call this blog post, "Stuff Evelyn likes and wouldn't mind getting for Mother's Day or her Birthday," but I digress. It can be tricky to choose the best gifts for mom for mother's day. If your mom loves to cook, [...]

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Healthy Snacks for Kids

Are you looking for the best healthy snacks for kids? Let us face it. A large number of parents out there have horror stories about their children turning up their noses at the food placed before them. In fact, there are children who definitely do not eat anything except takeout meals, TV dinners, processed foods, [...]

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Tulsi Tea (Holy Basil): A Sacred Herb with Amamzing Health Benefits

I discovered Tulsi Tea in the grocery store the other day. I love herbal infusions, and when I saw the new display from Organic India of a nice variety of flavors of teas, I purchased a box of the Peppermint flavor to try this new brand of tea. I love my Yogi teas, and of [...]

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Big Fork, Little Fork: A Cool App that Helps Parents Raise Smart Eaters

Developed by Kraft Foods, Big Fork, Little Fork is an iPhone/ iPad app that contains: Recipes designed to please picky eaters Tips, articles and other information about healthy eating habits and nutrition Step-by-step how-to videos Games to teach kids and parents about the USDA food pyramid and more It's available in the iTunes store, and [...]

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Healthy Snacks for Pregnant Women: Satisfying Pregnancy Munchies

This goes out to my friend Bonnie, who just let me know that she is pregnant with baby number two. Her first child is seven, so it's been awhile since she's been preggers. She battled and worked hard to lose 100 lbs. after her first baby, so she is concerned about weight gain during his [...]

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