Today we have a couple of recipes to perk up your brown bag lunches. These are kid-friendly (you know your kid best, so adapt the recipes to fit!) ways to get some extra fruits and veggies into them during the day.
Oh, and the world’s easiest cookies are here, too. Because every kid wants dessert… but that doesn’t mean you need to buy junk food, and it doesn’t mean you have to be a kitchen slave either.
1 apple, cored and grated
2 carrots, grated
1/2 cup currants (call them baby raisins if your kid doesn’t think she likes new things – or sub raisins)
1/2 cup orange juice
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
1 Tablespoon lemon zest (skip it if you don’t have a real lemon)
1-1/2 teaspoon grated fresh ginger (skip it if your kid doesn’t like the flavor… or try less at first)
1/4 cup walnuts, soaked 6-8 hours, chopped (if you didn’t get them soaked, don’t panic; use them anyway)
1 Tablespoon shredded unsweetened coconut (skip it if your kid doesn’t like coconut)
Combine apple, carrots currants, orange juice, lemon zest, and ginger the night before. Stir in walnuts and coconut in the morning, just before packing lunches.
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Easy Fat-free 3-Bean Salad Blue * Serves 8
1 pound fresh green beans, cut in 1″ pieces, steamed until tender & cooled
1 15-ounce can garbanzo beans
1 15-ounce can kidney beans
1 large red onion, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup seasoned rice vinegar (from the Asian foods section of your grocery store)
Combine all ingredients in a sealed plastic container and shake well. Let sit in fridge overnight, gets better with age, up to 10 days in the fridge.
Note: If you make steamed green beans for dinner, just make an extra pound for this recipe. Add the other ingredients after dinner, and you’ll have a great salad ready for brown bag lunches in the morning!
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Three-Ingredient Cookies Yellow * Makes 18 cookies
1 cup natural peanut butter
3/4 cup Sucanat®
Egg replacer equivalent to 1 egg (or substitute 1 egg)
Mix it up – spoon onto parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Bake at 350F for 7-10 minutes.
Optional: Add some Tropical Source chocolate chips.
Gotta move, gotta get out
Gotta leave this place, gotta find some place
Some other place, some brand new place
Some place where each face that I see
Won’t be staring back at me
Telling me what to be and how to be it
Some place where I can just be me
So this song, Gotta Move by Barbra Streisand, isn’t about pushing your chair back, moving your eyes away from the monitor, and exercising to increase your heart rate. Instead it reminds us that any change takes movement, action, and maybe even the idea of a direction.
Push your chair back, move your eyes away from the monitor, and start exercising anyway. Use the energy of this song to create a new way of looking at your world – the way an athlete looks at the world.
A Taste of Health presents the ultimate gift for your mind, body and spirit. Share the experience and wisdom of some of the world’s leading authorities and experts in holistic living and natural health, including Marilu Henner!
Some of the other presenters include *
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Yesterday we talked about making a plan for the future. Sometimes that future is scary, or at least has scary elements. Instead of being held back by your fear of the unknown (or by someone else’s fear on your behalf), how about stepping out, taking the risk, and gaining the knowledge? It won’t be an unknown anymore. You’ve learned something specific, but you’ve also learned that you have what it takes to risk. And that’s a very good thing.
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Many of us consider personal videos and photos to be the most valuable property in our homes. Why not organize them so they’re safe, easily accessible, and simple to view? This can be a daunting task if your photos are all over the place. If that’s the case, at least spend this day gathering them and taking inventory, saving the more complicated organizing for later.
If you have mostly hard copy photos, make an index card for each year, and stack all your photos in a pile in the right year. That’s a big start for many of us. If you get all the photos stacked in the right year and still have time, go through one year at a time and group the photos by subject. Look how much you’ve accomplished!
Bonus * There are no “big” holidays in sight, so your dining room table might be free to handle this task right now.
If you have mostly digital photos, organize them in folders by year and subject/event. Be sure to save all your digital photo and video files to two places. One could be your hard drive, one could be a removable hard drive (used for file storage), one could be CDs, one could be flash drives. It’s always best to have digital files in two places. Just in case.
Can you be sure
Will this be some good thing
Lucky stars to reckon appear again and again
Can you believe all that has brought you here
You say come on baby let’s go ahead and live
~ from Some Good Thing by The Wailin’ Jennys, one of Coach Heather’s favorite bands.
Yesterday, we looked at where we’ve been, and how we got to where we are today. Today, we’re going to ponder where we’re going – starting with where we are right now.
If you love where you are, and where you’re headed, great! More power to you! Keep your eyes open for new opportunities that continue to help you grow and become the person you aim to be.
If you think you’d like to explore another direction, then, hey! Turn your head. Take that other path. There’s really nothing stopping you from making a change except YOU. Sure, you may not be able to make that turn on a dime – it may take a little time to make it work. But don’t keep going down the same road when the new path is available. Make a plan; then make a change.
“What Would Marilu Do?” begins on Wednesday, September 8th.
If you’ve ever been faced with a choice in your eating, exercise or lifestyle habits, and wondered What Would Marilu Do? – this is your chance to find out.
Marilu will be sharing the details of her life; her health and beauty routines, her food and exercise choices, the responsibilities of her career and her personal and family activities.
Do you think you could benefit by spending a few weeks following Marilu throughout her day? Be sure to be with us on September 8th for a look inside Marilu’s daily life….and an incredible opportunity to make positive changes in yours !
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Spaghetti squash is a tasty substitute for pasta. It has a bit more flavor, and a different set of nutrients. Plus, what’s not to like about a little variety?
This recipe describes an easy way to cook the squash. Cut it lengthwise to open it, spoon out the seeds, and you’ll see stringy flesh. That’s the spaghetti! Use a fork to pull the strands apart gently. You can toss the spaghetti squash with any of your favorite sauces to make your own updated recipe!
Sometimes people in the house don’t like an all-vegetable meal. In that case, make a 1/4 pound of whole-grain spaghetti (we like Tinkyada rice pasta) and toss it with the spaghetti squash.
Serve with a side of sauteed greens and cannelini beans (we like them all sauteed with onion and garlic, yum!).
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1 medium spaghetti squash (2 pounds)
2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
3 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 teaspoon hot red pepper flakes
salt or Bragg Liquid Aminos
Preheat oven to 375F.
Wash the squash and place it on a baking sheet and bake for about 1 hour, or until the squash is tender when pierced with a fork. Cool 10-15 minutes. Halve the squash and discard the seeds. Use a fork to remove the stringy flesh.
Heat the oil, garlic and red pepper flakes together in a medium skillet. Cook over medium heat, stirring, until the garlic just begins to color (and is fragrant) – about 2 minutes.
Add the squash “noodles” and Bragg’s and toss together until heated through.
But there are things that you know
Things that you know
From where you’ve had to go
Where you’ve had to go
Today, instead of looking forward, take a look back. What have you accomplished in your life so far? Where have you been? What have you done? What can you be proud of? What have you learned? What would you do over if you could?
If we’re honest with ourselves, most of us wouldn’t change our past, after looking at everything we’ve learned along the way. Sometimes we think we’re stuck in a rut, or doing something worthless, and it turns out we’ve honed the very skills we needed a few years later at a completely different job, or in a completely different situation. Sometimes we think we’ve really messed up, and we’d love to have a do-over because we’ve hurt someone terribly – or we’ve allowed ourselves to be hurt terribly. But a few years down the road, we find that we really learned from that experience, and we’re able to offer or seek forgiveness (not always in person; sometimes just to the universe) and move on.
Take a moment to be proud of who you’ve become up to this point. Love yourself. You know more than you think you do.
There are some people who live in a dream world,
and there are some who face reality;
and then there are those who turn one into the other.
~ Douglas Everett
Big dreams are good. Big dreams can lead to a big life. Big dreamers can make big plans.
But it takes a person of determination, purpose and action to turn those big dreams and big plans into a big reality. Don’t just follow your dreams – work them into reality.
