Archive for the 'Vegetables' Category
Good Food
Posted on November 6, 2008 - Filed Under Nutrition, Vegetables, healthy lifestyle | 4 Comments
Wanted to share my dinner last night. I made grilled lemon chicken, sweet potatoes, and whole wheat pasta with pesto sauce and broccoli. It was good. Well worth the short time spent making it. Wife loved it too.
Roasted Asparagus and Sweet Potato Fries
Posted on October 11, 2008 - Filed Under Nutrition, Vegetables | 1 Comment
Here’s part of what we had for dinner last night (sorry not a great pic –with my cell phone). Sweet potato fries and roasted asparagus. Click on the link for the sweet potato fries recipe that we use and here’s how we do the asparagus:
1. Rinse off asparagus and break off the ends.
2. Put on a […]
Sweet Potato Fries
Posted on August 6, 2008 - Filed Under Nutrition, Vegetables | 5 Comments
Here is a great recipe from Walter Willett’s Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy. This is a recipe for “Spicy Sweet Potato Fries” that my wife and I really enjoy:
1 large sweet potato, peeled, cut into matchstick pieces
1 tablespoon olive or canola oil
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon paprika
salt […]
Fruit, Veggies, and Exercise are Good!
Posted on July 29, 2008 - Filed Under Exercise, Fruit, Prevention, Vegetables | 2 Comments
There’s more good news about eating more fruits/vegetables and exercising regularly: it will reduce your risk for developing type 2 diabetes. That is according to different studies published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine (read details of the studies here).
This shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. We know fruits and vegetables […]
Eat Your Veggies
Posted on June 29, 2008 - Filed Under Nutrition, Prevention, Vegetables | 2 Comments
Here’s another one of my favorite commercials from Intermountain Healthcare’s LiVe campaign. Gotta eat those veggies…
Sweet Potato Time
Posted on June 13, 2008 - Filed Under Nutrition, Vegetables | Leave a Comment
I love sweet potatoes. I love the taste, I love the color, and I love the nutrition. Sweet potatoes contain β-carotene, vitamin C, fiber, and are lower in calories than regular white potatoes. They are also lower on the glycemic index. The glycemic index (GI) is a measure of how foods affect blood sugar. A […]
