Everyone needs a healthy alternative to standard restaurant Chinese food, whether you eat it for Xmas or just for fun whenever you feel like it. Take a look back at this blog post for the easiest and healthiest Chinese meal you’ll ever eat! Don’t worry, it’s very tasty too! Best of all, you won’t feel gross after you eat it. No MSG side effects. No rumbling stomach or deep thirst keeping you up at night.
Last year Black Friday bled into Thanksgiving Day and this year it essentially began on Monday of Thanksgiving week. The following week we can look forward to Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday. That is the American order. “After you feel guilty for your gluttony, please give to charity.” But in my world, Jewish values tell me that giving charity (tzedekah) comes way before buying tchotchkes. Whatever faith you are or are not, I’m confident that my readers agree with me.
I’m happy to be coming up for air at the end of an entire month of holidays! In the meantime, even with Succot over, it’s never too late to enjoy a warm, healthy and hearty bowl of soup.
With the start of the secular holiday season upon us, now is a great time to read my Jewish Food Experience article about healthy eating during the holidays. Be sure to also click on the accompanying Mama Soup recipe. Thanks, Mom!
We don’t usually think about fresh, raw vegetable recipes for the fall…but we all need hearty and healthy fall salads for clean eating, even after the air turns crisp. Here are two, recently published by The Israel Forever Foundation’s Cooking Israel site.
I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season! As promised, here are the two pages of my salad/appetizer recipes recently published in The Jewish Press. This is clean eating at its best!
Is it possible to feel lighter after a 2-day holiday? Yes! It is. Here’s how I did it.
The way Shavuot falls this year (10 days from now) we are looking at a three day yuntov. Because of the length and because it starts with Shabbat, I really have to keep my menus simple to maintain my sanity. I encourage you to do the same! You’ll also want to do as much prep ahead of time as possible.
I have two suggestions to simplify your menu.
I’m not one to tell my kids to go outside and play. Why? I don’t like to play outside! If they’re out there, I have to be too. However, I recently realized that I had to do something to combat the slow screen-addicted zombie-ification of myself and my family. Discovering a sense of wonder (missing in the Google age) for something other than new toy videos on YouTube is definitely a healthy habit for children AND adults. I decided to force that discovery and took advantage of a once a year phenomena to get us out there.
Even if you don’t celebrate Passover, these recipes are light and delicious. Your Healthy Pesach Toolkit is here! Nice thoughts for a great week and previous Passover posts with tons of healthy recipes and tips! (from last week) and below…tools 2-4 Your Spa-like Passover Menu – 2 new HFHY veggie recipes – and my favorite …
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Tool 1. Here are your nice thoughts:
Most of the people who read the Healthy Family, Healthy You blog are NOT vegan, or maybe even vegetarian. That’s cool with me. I’m not here to force anyone to agree with me. I just want us all to be healthy together, as a community, and support one another while we’re trying.
So, during Passover, let’s try do that. Support one another. Eat healthfully. Use the week as an excuse to find as many ways to eat as many vegetables humanly possible. (You know, except for the ones that are kitniyot).