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PLU code

Posted in health, produce, shopping, tagged , , , on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The other day, health/fitness blog Mark’s daily apple had an interesting post titled Cracking the Code. We all see the PLU coded stickers on fresh produce at local grocery store – I was thinking it meant just for speeding the checkout process. But it has more to it. Basically you start with counting the number [...]

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Beets ‘n Rice

Posted in Misc, beetroot, beets, health, indian recipe, recipe, weight loss on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Beet/Beetroot – you got to love this root vegetable. Beets are high in dietary fiber, folate, potassium, manganese, vitamin C, iron and magnesium. The nutritional value and health benefits of beet makes it ideal for: Maintaining optimum health Weight loss Here is the recipe for Beet Rice – this rice has a mild sweet taste [...]

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Concord Grape Juice Vs Red wine

Posted in concord grape juice, eating fabulous, health, red wine on November 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Last month health blog Eating Fabulous had a blog posting titled Concord Grape Juice Even Better than Red Wine. Here are few things from that blog post. A new study indicates that not only does Concord grape juice stimulated an arterial relaxation effect in a similar fashion to red wine, in fact it even induced [...]

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Healthy oatmeal pancake

Posted in buttermilk, food, health, pancakes, recipe, wheat, wheat germ on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Who doesn’t love pancakes. Making pancakes from scratch has been our Sunday morning ritual for the past few months now. We found this recipe at allrecipes.com and made slight modification to suit our taste buds. These pancakes comes out real moist and fluffy and you wouldn’t even know these have a good amount of oats [...]

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Mango Lassi

Posted in food, greek, health, mango, yogurt on October 9, 2007 | 9 Comments »

Another easy to make healthy drink…or to better put an easy way to incorporate yogurt into your diet. I heard elsewhere on the web that live bacteria in yogurt can help you live longer or fortify your immune system. Go Yogurt!! We used greek yogurt for this recipe. Greek yogurt gives a creamy texture to [...]

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Organic Chocolate chip muffin

Posted in chocolate, coco, coffee, family fun, flax, food, health, muffin, organic, recipe, wheat on October 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »

We have been making this recipe for few months now, and it is truly the very healthy chocolate muffin around. Who wouldn’t love the organic goodness with whole grain and chocolate chips – this muffin has good amount of fiber as well. Ingredients: 1/4 cup hot water 2 tablespoon instant coffee powder 2 tablespoon flaxseed [...]

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Food Talk: Tangerine Juice sans “added” sugar

Posted in food, health, hfcs on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

If you like tangerines, you got to try this 100% tangerine juice. I bet it will become your kiddo(s)’ favorite. It’s a great source of antioxidants with no added sugar or HFCS. You can find this at Wal-mart in the produce section along with bolthouse juices.

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10 Reasons To Eat More Chocolate

Posted in food, health on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I stumbled across this blog which highlights 10 reasons to eat more Chocolate (one with more Coco and without refined sugar). You can read this here.

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Alphonso Mango Juice

Posted in food, health, hfcs, shopping on September 27, 2007 | 11 Comments »

If you like mango juice (particularly Parner or similar ones from India), Costco seems to be selling Langer’s Mango Nectar from Real Alphonso Mangoes. Unfortunately, it’s only 20% juice – but on the flip side it doesn’t have HFCS (aka High Fructose Corn Syrup) but rather it’s made of organic evaporated cane juice. It tastes [...]

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