Dark Chocolate Sauce
Homemade Dark Chocolate Sauce – A delicious way to top some of your favorite summer desserts. (more…)
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06/29/2011
Granola Bars: Grab-and-Go Chemicals or Nourishment?
Granola bars stir up quite the controversy at our house. My kids want to bring them to school for snack, but a nut-free school means no granola bars with nuts of any sort. That rules out a lot of the granola bars on the market. Then when we look at what’s left and examine what ingredients are actually in the remaining granola bars things really start to get interesting. Let’s just say we’re left with…well, not much. (more…)
01/16/2011
Trick-or-Treat
What creeps you out the most on Halloween? Goblins and witches? Spiders and ghouls? Or is it the load of processed, corn syrup-laden, artificially flavored “treats” that will fill your children’s smiling plastic jack-o-lanterns? Bet I can scare you even more. Did you know that some of those well known candies they’ll be ingesting contain ingredients like TBHQ (a form of Butane)? TBHQ, believe it or not, is an ingredient in many processed food items ranging from candy to chicken nuggets. The following excerpt from author Michael Pollan discusses TBHQ in regards to it’s placement in a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget: (more…)
10/24/2010
Ice Cream Sandwich and Pimple Cream: The Common Ingredient
You ready for this one? I’m not even sure if I’m ready to write about it, but it is DEFINITELY a food story that needs to be told. Over the summer I took my boys to a popular indoor playground in Los Angeles. You know the ones where your kids climb, swing, slide and basically wreak havoc for several hours in a padded room while you try desperately to tune out the constant drone of screaming? Yup, that’s the one. (more…)
10/03/2010
Chocolate: 72% Love
Chocolate has been making a statement in my life a lot lately. No, it’s not by way of Rocky Road in front of The Bachelorette on Monday nights or through Fudge Pops out by the pool in the July heat. Chocolate is continuing to come up both in conversation and in articles I have come across about it’s many health benefits. I have added some articles of interest to the Relevant Reads page which I encourage you to check out. Chocolate in it’s purest form has loads of nutritional benefits. It’s bad rap has been handed to it by impersonators offering hints of chocolate flavor wrapped in corn syrup and sugar.
07/25/2010