Monkey Monday: happy salad season! 30 June 2008 1:03 pm
Posted by Tracy in : salad, nutrition, seasonality, news, eating, cooking , 3 commentsSo a New York Times health blog headline caught my eye this morning: The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating, and when I clicked through, the images at the top of the post made me laugh. Why? Well, they had pictures of beets and cabbage, and this is what I had for dinner on Saturday night:
Yep, that’s coleslaw, beet salad, and my favorite lentil salad (that last on a bed of spinach). (more…)
Monkey Monday: just past Sunday night edition 31 March 2008 12:00 am
Posted by Tracy in : monkeys, breakfast, nepal, nutrition, health, news, eating, Marion Nestle, meta, restaurants , add a commentNow with more breakfast news and commentary!
20/20 hindsight says I should have gone with a breakfast theme for last week, because the news was certainly on my side for a breakfast theme to last week. There was the study I mentioned on Wednesday, about the correlation between not eating breakfast and weight gain in adolescents, which Marion Nestle discussed a few days later over here on Eating Liberally. (more…)
Quick updates! 26 March 2008 9:13 am
Posted by Tracy in : politics, breakfast, nutrition, pictures, Morning Glory, news, health, books , add a commentFirst, I finally added this week’s Morning Glory specials to Monday’s post. More on that in a bit.
Second, Google Analytics says almost none of you read my open letter to Keith Knight, but that’s okay, because the man himself did, and even wrote me a nice comment which completely made my day, so yay!
Finally, a little rant about yesterday’s annoying food, nutrition, and health news. (more…)
Monkey Monday: public service announcement edition. 10 March 2008 5:55 pm
Posted by Tracy in : meat, kitchen mishaps, nutrition, advice, health, soup, news, cooking , add a commentHappy Daylight Savings Hangover Monday to all my U.S. readers, and happy feeling our envy to everyone else. While I’m mentioning the bad news first: I’m not revealing travel plans for any international adventures today, and there are sadly still no guitars. Instead, I want to share a few useful morsels of information brought to me by my friendly local Internet (also yours!)
First, the post that gave me the idea for this entry’s theme: A Public Service Announcement From Your Body by Peggy Nature, brought to my attention by the ever-awesome Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose. (more…)
