More Winter Produce
I had a similar experience. This picture was taken 3/2/06. I covered up my strawberry plants for the winter. When I uncovered them, I found a couple of heads of green leaf lettuce. I had grown lettuce in this bed the year before and it obviously reseeded! It was the [...]
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blooming garden in the dead of winter
After DH built me some winter garden boxes (removable, on top of my square foot boxes), I planted them with onions and chard and spinach last fall. I meant to go out and water them, but, well . . . it’s been a bitter winter here in Utah. I’m kind of lazy and [...]
12 Comments • Continue Reading →Costco Nazi: no sweet potatoes for you!
Today I made my weekly produce pilgrimage to Costco. I don’t even really like sweet potato, generally, but I LOVE the healthy sweet potato fries that we’ve come up with, gsg.com readers and I, served on a bed of cooked quinoa. It’s a 10-minute dinner. I’d ordered 50 lbs. of [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →cardiovascular health: nature vs. nurture
I went to give blood today, hoping that my always-borderline hematocrit was high enough. It was. Though one point lower and I’d have been rejected–again. Like most other things the RDA does, those hematocrit averages aren’t based on the ideal, but rather the average. The averages are, of course, of a [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →a bodybuilder who “gets it!”
I leveraged some of this from a blog by Jason Ferruggia, one of the few bodybuilders who actually knows better than to drink whey protein shakes:Many of you know that dairy is not good for getting lean, and that consumption of dairy products has been linked to a decreased immune response. Most of us [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →sweet potato fries
So I wrote recently about the fabulous raw sweet potato spears you can get at Costo now! And even though I rolled my eyes at the lady on the way out of the store who told me to DEEP FRY THEM, it did give me an idea. I put ¼ cup of coconut [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →storing GS in the fridge and vegetarians in rotten health
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl, how long can you keep your green smoothie in the fridge? I’m single and don’t want to make it every day. Does it lose nutrition and therefore is it pointless to store it? Answer: You can keep in in the fridge, at the most, for 48 hours. After that it [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →eating healthy while traveling
I’m back from a fun trip down south for a baseball tournament in the sun. I tried a tip from a woman who attended my nutrition class the night before I left–to use coconut oil instead of sunscreen. She says it works. (It seems rather counterintuitive–isn’t coconut oil in tanning lotions used [...]
16 Comments • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call, Part VIII top-secret advice!
So I just wrecked the pedestal underneath the Fat Diet Docs and celebs, the personal trainers, the network marketers’ pills, potions, and juices, and the blood type and metabolic typing docs. I hope you’re not feeling without answers. Moms write me and tell me they read about nutrition and go to bed in tears [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call, Part VII the guys telling you to eat for your “type”
Joe Mercola’s been hyping his metabolic typing program to his 1.5 million readers. You, too, can pay big bucks for it, as soon as he’s done creating it. He continues to tell people to eat lots of whey protein powder (which he sells) and avoid eating grains, despite a massive body of evidence [...]
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