Say Hello to July with a Detox

by Sheila | Jul 1, 2011 | Uncategorized

Join Dr. Chad Oler, ND and Sheila Robertson, Nutrition Coach

 for a free, phone in, class on detoxification

CSA Challenge: Box #2

by Sheila | Jul 1, 2011 | Uncategorized

Hi! I hope everyone ate everything up from their first boxes! If you tried any delicious recipes please pass them along to us. If you thought you had some strange things in the last box, box #2 is going to be a great adventure. This week in your boxes you have a few familiar faces. You should recognize the salad turnips, chocolate mint and watercress from the first box, and then you should also be able to identify the snow and snap peas as well as the red head lettuce. The rest of the produce is a little less common; you have elderflower blossoms, lemon balm, milkweed buds, sorrel, romanesco leaves, kohlrabi and garlic scapes. Here’s some information about these crazy things, recipes and video below!!!

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Bye-Bye Fruit Snacks: Mom to Mom Advice on How to Get Your Kids to Eat Healthy

by sheilaobb | Jun 28, 2011 | Uncategorized

Unfortunately, in today’s supermarkets it can be hard to tell healthy from unhealthy. Many products, especially those formulated for children, are packaged and marketed to appear healthy when in reality they are very much the opposite. Researchers from the Prevention Institute recently took a closer look at a list of 58 products marketed towards kids that were deemed healthy by the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative. They looked at the total calories from fat, total calories from sugar, total grams of fiber, and sodium content of each product to determine whether or not it really was healthy. In the end, 49 of the 58 products were actually classified as unhealthy. Of those 58 so called healthy products, 95% contained added sugars, including high fructose corn syrup, 17% contained “no whole food ingredients” and only one product contained a green vegetable. I’m not sure what the original definition of healthy was, but it definitely doesn’t fit the picture I have.

Instead of basing your healthy decisions on packaging, go with what you know is healthy – real, whole, unprocessed foods. If it’s processed, if there are items on the ingredient list you don’t know or can’t pronounce, or if your grandma wouldn’t recognize it as a food, then it’s not food. And you don’t want to feed your family fake food. Here are some real life tips from some real life mamas on how to get your kids to eat healthy. (more…)

Fast and Fantastic in the Kitchen Celebrates Summer

by sheilaobb | Jun 22, 2011 | Uncategorized

Last night we had a cooking class at Whole Foods where we shared some yummy seasonal recipes. We decided to do this class to go along with the theme of the CSA Challenge, so we picked recipes that used ingredients many people are seeing at farmer’s markets right now or in their CSA boxes. In order to broaden your horizons, we also tried to pick ingredients that may be a little bit unusual for people. Using new or strange ingredients doesn’t have to make cooking complicated, and it shouldn’t be scary. It really helps to spice up your everyday meals while giving you needed nutritional variety. As usual our recipes reduce the most common food allergies, and the meals are balanced, beautiful, delicious and nutritious.

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CSA Challenge; Are you up for it?

by sheilaobb | Jun 17, 2011 | Uncategorized | 2 comments

On Wednesday night, our first CSA boxes from Circle M Market Farm arrived! The anticipation was killing us; we were like kids on Christmas morning opening up our box! This year, along with your boxes of delicious fresh produce, we have a challenge for you: to use everything in your box. We know it can be hard to use something you’ve never heard of before (like lovage) or something you didn’t even know was edible (like nettles), and that is why we are here. Nutritionists to the rescue! We will be blogging about every box to help you identify what you’ve got, give you some great usage and storage information and pass along tons of yummy recipes, as well entertain you with a video of us getting excited about vegetables. For those of you who get a CSA box from a different farm or don’t get a CSA at all this blog and video still has useful information for you! Maybe your CSA sent you some of these items or maybe you saw some of these things at the farmer’s market; challenge yourself to try something you’ve never heard of or something you think you don’t like — you might be surprised.

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