Your Healthy Fourth of July Plan is Here!

Great Fourth of July Appetizers, Fruit, Dessert, Salads, Drinks, Oh My! All Guilt-Free! Remember, always bring a dish YOU can/want to eat. Spiked Appetizer Healthy Asian Slaw   Lani’s Fig Salad Lani’s Fig Salad Serves 4 10 fresh figs, quartered 3 Kiwi fruits, peeled and diced 1 nectarine, diced Combine all ingredients and serve. Bonus …

Healthy Family, Healthy You HUGE Book News!

There will now be TWO Healthy Family, Healthy You books. If you read this blog regularly, you know I’ve been working on the Healthy Family, Healthy Book book for over a year. A while back I stopped telling people, “It’s not a cookbook,” because it was starting to turn into one. I understand why everyone …

Meal Replacement in a Can or a Box? I don’t think so…

We’ve all been through stages where we didn’t have time to cook or just thought it was simpler to count calories by eating something from a box or a can. Slim Fast started first (or at least in my lifetime it was first…). I don’t know how popular it is now, but I do know how popular Medi-Fast is. I can’t begin to tell people who feel they are only successful losing weight on these plans that they are WRONG, but I do think the approach is misguided. Again, I suppose if you are very overweight and this is the only thing that is worked for you… My problem is that I don’t like to judge. What I do like to do is provide better options.

2 Delicious Summer Salads! Recipes and Pictures included

Easy, Healthy Summer Salads! Use as a main meal or side dish.

For an easy summer Shabbat lunch, with or without company, see how many fruits and veggies you can make! Then when you go to eat the leftovers…you won’t feel guilty – just happy and light and like you’ve set yourself up for a healthy week. That’s the Healthy Family, Healthy You way!

Shavuot and Every Meal Made Easy!

Tasha’s Tip: This particular blog refers to places local to DC and Maryland. However, wherever you live – and whichever holidays you celebrate – you should find a local place where you can buy food of the same quality, ingredients and calories, as what you would/could make at home. Unless you live in a super …

New Recipe! Healthy Lunch or Sophisticated Appetizer

Looking for a new, healthy lunch option? What about a sophisticated appetizer? You can put this Tofu Egg Salad on whole grain bread, a grain-free wrap (like Blue Mountain basil coconut wraps) for lunch…or put it in a pepper bowl (ooh – what about stuffed into a baby pepper?!) for a sophisticated appetizer or first course. Let me know how you use it!