FuzziBunz Mom Cooks Red Beans and Rice

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Yes, Tereson Dupuy, the Creator of Number 1 cloth pocket diapers cooks for her kids. She shares this yummy recipe her children love.

Tereson, "My children love beans! Red beans, black beans, white beans. Here's one of their favorite recipes."

Red Beans and Rice Recipe by FuzziBunz Tereson Dupuy

You'll need:
1 lb red kidney beans
1 package turkey sausage or tasso (use vegetarian versions)
1 onion
3 celery stalks
1 bellpepper
salt, pepper to taste
brown rice

Preparation
Soak beans overnight.
Brown sausage or other meat or meat substitutes and seasonings.
Put in a crockpot in the morning and cook on low for 10 hours or high for 7 hours.
Once cooked mash some of the beans to make a creamy consistency.
Serve over brown rice.

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PS: If you have any questions to Susan, please leave them in the comments below. She will definitely read and answer them.
PPS: If you know a woman-entrepreneur who has created healthy product(s), please let me know, so we could spread the word about her and her contribution to this planet.

Disclosure: I only review products I believe in. I am not compensated for my opinions. 

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Slow Arsenic In Child's 'Healthy Meals'

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Save Your Kids Now, While They Are Forming Their Eating And Behavioral Preferences

You love your kids and grandkids. You buy them stuff: food, toys, clothes. You mean the best for their health and quality of life. Don't you?

Have you reminded yourself about what it is in those lunch and fast-food-places' combo meals?

Sure your child needs to be fed. But does the nutrition that comes in a cartoon-embellished box truly serve your child's body's needs?

More often than not, kid's foods – a.k.a. 'happy meals' – offered by the big establishments like McDonald's, Burger King, Jack in the Box and alike, lure little ones by gifting a toy in a brightly colored package. Of course it's hard for our little ones to resist. They will take that food, in that type of package any time.

Well, times are changing. We learn more. We self-educate. We implement. A child's body cannot wait... for good nutrition.

Here are good references to remind you and me of making healthy choices for our kids and ourselves.

Health.com website offers some great reminders for us, grown-ups.

10 Kid-Targeted Junk Foods
Do you think it is ethical to use cartoon characters to market junk, literally junk, foods to your children?

25 Diet-Busting Foods You Should Never Eat
These foods may list all great ingredients in the world. However, when they have two pounds of sugar per serving, is it really good for you?

25 Suprisingly-Salty Processed Foods
Same story here: great ingredients, but something's wrong with proportions per serving plus food preservation mechanism.

You may be interested to read this manifesto by Boyd Jentzsch:
Prevent Childhood Obesity. Save Generation of Kids.

We need to make food marketers stop marketing unhealthy foods – slow arsenic – to kids, using cartoons and other kids-favorite things. How? Just stop buying such products for your child's sake. Stop feeding slow arsenic to your children. Your child does have a chance to grow up with chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, hypertension (high blood pressure), obesity, on such super-cartoonish diets.

Do you wish the best for your child?

Make your mind and choices now.

Celebrate Your Choice Today

Disclosure: I only review products I believe in. I am not compensated for my opinions.

Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.

Cool Cuke and Honeydew Fizz – Refreshing Drink Recipe

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Get Jiggy With the Juice

 (by Mareya Ibrahim, Eat Cleaner Creator)

Growing up in a warm country, a prerequisite for a blistering hot day – about 10 months out of the year – was to pay a visit to the juice bar around the corner from our flat.

The proprietor would stack the counters up with colorful pyramids of oranges, beets, mangoes, guavas and pomegranates, depending on what was in season.  Vases filled with rods of sugar cane and long carrots anchored the artful arrangements to create an edible landscape.

Once the juicers started to whir, the sweet scent of freshness would dance through the steamy streets, luring customers in like a pied piper.  He’d create his own signature fruit and veggie ‘cocktails’, mixing beet with orange, carrot and mango, a soulful blend of sweet and savory.  At a time when soda made it to our side of the globe, juicing was just pure refreshment. 

Now we know that fresh juice provides us with invaluable nutrition in a glass.  Yet, most of the juice you purchase at the store has been heat pasteurized, which destroys bacteria along with many of the beneficial nutrients.

If you make it at home, you’ll not only preserve a bevy of vitamins and minerals, essential fatty acids and good carbohydrates, you’ll also ensure its safety of the fruit and vegetables when you buy and wash them yourself.

Added bonus…you get the best of the fruit, including fiber and concentrated nutrients, while reaping the benefits of quick-release energy in a flash – a great pick-me-up before and after your yoga workout. 

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Cool Cuke and Honeydew Fizz Recipe

Tip: Use Eat Cleaner wash or wipes for all veggies and fruit in this recipe to enhance safety and flavor.

Why You Should Indulge: Cucumber is a good source of folic acid, potassium, vitamins A and C and is a natural anti-inflammatory, maintaining overall health and wellness.  Honeydew melons are also chock full of vitamin C and are naturally low in calories.  Combined with sparkling water to give it a fun fizz, Cukes and Honeydews are the perfect mates.

Makes approx. 16 ounces
1 cucumber, peeled, seeded and chopped
2 cups cubed honeydew melon
1 cup sparkling water
1 Fresh lime

In a blender, pulse cucumber and honeydew until smooth.  Add sparkling water and blend thoroughly.  Pour over ice or chill and finish with a squeeze of lime.

*****

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PS: If you know of a woman-entrepreneur with healthy product(s) she created and developed, please let me know, so we could spread a word about her and her contribution to this planet.

Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.

Grilled Vegetable Salad with Feta and Kalamata Olives

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Here's a healthy meals recipe by Mareya Ibrahim, Eat Cleaner Creator.

Do use Eat Cleaner to wash your fresh veggies in the recipe to enjoy their fresh and true taste!

Grilled Vegetable Salad with Feta and Kalamata Olives

Marinade/Dressing:

3T fresh lemon juice
3 T balsamic vinegar
1 1/2 T extra virgin olive oil
2 plum tomatoes, chopped
2 tsp fresh oregano, chopped (1 tsp dried if fresh isn’t available)
Kosher or sea salt
Freshly cracked black pepper

To Grill:

1 small eggplant
1 fennel bulb, trim the fronds (leaves)
2 small zucchini
1 head radicchio
1 red onion, peeled
1 lemon
2 T olive oil

More on Mareya's Success Story

California Mother Puts End to Contaminated Food Eating
How To Eat Produce Treated With Pesticides... And Be Healthy
California Woman From Egypt Saves You Big Bucks on Produce, Poultry, and Fish

PS: If you know of a woman-entrepreneur with healthy product(s) she created and developed, please let me know, so we could spread a word about her and her contribution to this planet.

Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.

Recipe for Fish Salad to Be On Track With You Weight Loss Plan

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Here’s one of the healthy choices for you that incorporates the principals from the previous post about exercise, and healthy food choices after it (to lower your insulin resistance and lose or maintain weight). This salad does meat those requirements, and it is very filling.

Variety Fish Salad

(Easy delicious recipes for healthy meals. Every day)

Ingredients
1 orange
1 lb fish fillet (go for the cold water and Atlantic salmon, rather than farm fish)
1/2 cup Balsamic Vinegar
8 cups of spinach or green/red salad leaves
1 tomato, sliced
1 onion, sliced
1 can (16 oz) white or black beans, rinsed and drained
1/3 cup toasted pine nuts

Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 400 F. From the orange, grate some peel to measure 2 teaspoons; set aside. Peel and section orange; reserve. Arrange fish (salmon) in 8-inch baking dish.
2. Combine Balsamic Vinegar with orange peel in small bowl. Evenly brush fish (salmon) with 4 tablespoons dressing mixture. Bake 12 minutes or until salmon flakes with fork.
3. Arrange spinach (green salad leaves), tomatoes, and onion on serving platter. Top with orange and beans, then arrange fish (salmon) and pine nuts.
4. Drizzle with remaining Balsamic Vinegar.

To Your Health!

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Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.

Theory of Relativity. And Healthy Food Choices.

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With apologies to Albert Einstein, I would like to explain how the Theory of Relativity relates to making healthy family food choices.

Have you ever been on the way home after a long day at work and realized you had nothing healthy in the house to feed your family when you got home?

Have you ever been home preparing a healthy meal for your family, and someone says, "Oh mom, not that again"?

Have you ever sat in the bathroom skimming a magazine, looking for something new, AND HEALTHY, to feed your kids?

Have you ever been in a grocery store, quickly reading labels, trying to figure out if the ingredients on the package match the hype in the ads, while your kids impatiently want you to go to a "funner" aisle?

Time and healthy choices.
Family food choices always begin with you reading labels, trying to figure out what is right for your family. But it almost always comes down to time – how much time do you have to research new, healthy alternatives. How much time do you have to really read the labels? How long does it take to actually fix the food for dinner?

Of course you want to make your meals interesting, and healthy. But you don't always have the time. Sometimes isn't it just easier, quicker, to go with what they ask for, even when you wonder if it's something they really should be eating?

Moms don't have time.
Not enough time to do it all right. Not enough time to learn what you know you ought to about healthier food alternatives. Not enough time to seek out smaller brands that may be healthier for your family – or drive a little further to get them.

When you finally have time to think, and evaluate, wouldn't you rather just relax and think about nothing? Sometimes?

Moms. Enough Time. Healthy Food Choices.
Those are concepts that don't seem to fit well in the same sentence. They certainly seldom fit together well in life.

Which brings us back to the Theory of Relativity.

Mr. Einstein famously said "The theory or relativity can be explained quite simply. When you sit on a hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour. When you sit next to a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute."

Taking a minute to make informed food choices for your family can feel like you spent an hour you didn't have. Taking and hour to prepare a healthy meal and sitting down to eat it with your family – watching them loving every bite – can feel like a stolen minute in time.

I am not Einstein, but I'd like to help you.
I'm spending more and more time researching healthy products for your family (mine too, of course). Plus I'm spending the extra time to tell you about the wonderful women behind them – I know sometimes that can make a difference – you’re not just consuming a product, you’re ingesting someone’s passionate quest to give it to you.

If you have just a few moments every week, I promise I’ll review some great healthy products for you, and meet the very interesting women behind them. That way, you can spend some thinking time for yourself. And less time worrying about discovering healthy products for your family.

If you have a product to recommend, please let me know and I’ll pass it on to my readers. Perhaps you can save them some time too, and give them one more meal-time hour with their family that will seem like a minute.

You can contact me via my LinkedIn profile

VP Programs Development, ScaleDown for Life
VP Education, GoZonkers Inc.
Founder, CelebrateLifeNutrition.com
Curb Your Appetite – Stop Your Cravings
©2010 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.