Elizabeth Yarnell's Blog, page 26

Delicious Organic Corn Crackers/ Corn Cakes

In what’s becoming a snacking theme, I thought I’d share with you what has become one of my go-to crackers: Real Foods Sesame Corn Thins. A Certified Organic, GMO-free product out of Australia, the only ingredients in these addictive crackers are organic corn, organic sesame seeds, and sea salt. Somehow, these simple ingredients are pressed [...]

A Healthy Snacking Option: Seaweed Snacks

One of our favorite snacks at our house are toasted seaweed strips. These irresistibly crunchy, salty, flavorful strips of nori are the same toasted seaweed wrappers used for making sushi rolls, cut into 3″ strips for snacking and often flavored with teryaki, sesame, or spicy chiles. You can find them in large plastic jars or [...]

Consumers Can Influence Food Suppliers

You should check out Robyn O’Brien’s post in Shape Magazine on “3 Examples of How Consumers Changed the Food Supply.” As a former financial analyst for the food industry, Robyn is in a good position to understand how companies react to consumer demands. She gives a good list as to how consumers and social media [...]

GMO Labeling Efforts: What Now?

With the election now behind us, it is a bummer to see that Prop 37, the proposal which would have required Genetically Modified foods to be labeled as such, failed in California. It’s not surprising that this grass-roots-led effort failed, as corporate interests spent $45-50 million dollars to defeat it. Who had these deep pockets [...]

What to Do with All That Halloween Candy?

Have you thought about sending it to the troops? Operation Gratitude Halloween Candy Buyback will pass your kids’ extra Halloween candy out to our soldiers deployed overseas and in harm’s way. It’s a way for your kids to feel good about forfeiting their sugary loot. The Halloween Candy Buyback program works with participating dentists. Find [...]

The Life-Giving Power of the Sun

On this planet, all life comes from the sun. The sun shines its rays down on plants and plants photosynthesize, using the sun’s energy for the growth of plant cells. Animals and people eat the plants, absorbing the life-giving nourishment and energy stored in the plant’s cells. People eat the animals as well, transferring the [...]

What’s So Bad About Canola Oil?

I used to be a canola oil girl. I believed it was a healthy choice for a cooking oil, and even recommended using it all over my cookbook. Now I know better. As I live and learn and mature, I reserve the right to change my mind as new information comes to light. Such is [...]

Unreal Candy; Familiar Candy Made Better

The biggest problem with Halloween, in my opinion, is the amount of crap that my kids come home with. Today’s candy is rife with nastiness like high fructose corn syrup, food dyes, and chemical additives. Unreal Candy is “candy unjunked” TM. Unreal Candy has no: GMOs High Fructose Corn Syrup Trans-fats (partially hydrogenated oils) Artificial [...]

Why A Healthy Diet is Important to Your Health

The human body is an amazingly complex machine where vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients often play the role of key catalyst for the performance of our senses, our movements, and even our thoughts. Human beings evolved to derive these nutrients from the food that we eat, and we have seen that eating a nutritionally deficient [...]

The Dairy Dilemma

Please enjoy a guest post today by Tracy Stevens of Intuity Wellness regarding selecting the healthiest type of milk for your family. Thanks Tracy! “Milk Does a Body Good.”  Does it?  That’s what the ad campaign in the 1990s told us.  But it does definitely depend on the body and the choices you make.  Milk [...]