This month we’re focusing on plant proteins and encouraging everyone to eat a plant! This topic continues the themes from the past few months which were whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. Adding plant proteins easily builds upon these earlier achievements....
Rainbow Roasted Salad This makes a great fall or winter salad, but get out the grill and you’ll see that it works any time of the year. It would be excellent for entertaining. Best of all, the presentation is really amazing while the work required to make...
Ultra-processed foods are taking over grocery shelves with their added flavor, affordable prices, and long shelf-life. Ultra-processed foods including pre-packaged meals, breakfast cereals and bars, and packaged rice and pasta mixes are excessively processed through...
We hear a lot about consuming fewer processed foods as a key strategy to improve health. The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans encourages choosing unprocessed meats instead of processed meats. But just what are processed meats and why should we avoid them?...
Do you know what food companies are good at? They’re good at calling something by a different name to make people believe it’s OK to eat on a regular basis. Take the morning muffin for example. These are frequently sold at convenience stores, big box grocers,...
The American diet tends to be high in saturated fat from everyone’s favorite foods like cheeseburgers, hot dogs, fried foods, and heavy desserts. The new Dietary Guidelines recommended consuming no more than 5-6% of daily calories from saturated fat, but many...
