Tabbouleh is a Middle Eastern salad based on bulgar wheat. It’s filling and has a bright, fresh flavor from the mint, tomatoes and lime juice.
Serve tabbouleh as a main dish salad on lettuce leaves, with whole wheat pita bread on the side.
Or serve it as a side dish – it provides the starch and some veggies to go along with the rest of your meal.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~ Tabbouleh Blue * Serves 4
1 cup bulgar wheat, uncooked
1 cup flat leaf parsley, chopped finely
1 cup scallions, chopped finely
1 cup fresh mint, chopped finely
3 medium tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and chopped
1/3 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
1/3 cup olive oil
2 cucumbers, seeded and cubed (peel waxy cucumbers)
sprigs of fresh mint
salt and pepper to taste
Soak the bulgar in hot water for ten minutes. Drain well and add the parsley, scallions, mint, tomatoes, lime juice, and olive oil. Toss well. Season and decorate with cucumber and mint.
August often brings a kind of doldrums – a time when there’s no headwind or tailwind to push or pull you, and no incentive to create one, either. A time when coasting seems like the best choice.
The thing about no headwind is that conflict and confrontation often challenge us to be our best, and to bring our best game. No headwind? No challenge.
The thing about a tailwind is that success depends on support – from family, from friends, from co-workers, from peers, from employers.
The thing about coasting is that there’s only one direction you can go. Right? It’s not the direction you want for your life, your health, your career, your family.
This August, stay away from the doldrums. Create change. Take action. If you need help figuring out how to do that, get into the Dear Diary class that starts today. Members will have an email in their inbox; to join, just get started here.
Need more incentive? Take a listen. Then get to class!
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford
If you find yourself sprawled on the ground, having been knocked flat by some unforeseen circumstance or perhaps a crazy life decision, don’t think you have to stay there. There’s no need to accept the position (or the label that goes with it). Get up. Make a change. Create the opportunity. Do something. A fresh start is within your reach, if you’ll only take that first step.
Starting Monday there’s a new “Dear Diary” Class exclusively in the Members Area! All members are automatically enrolled in class. Not a member? Join now!
You probably know what you should be doing for your health.
Is your excitement for healthy living waning in the heat and humidity?
Do you need the routine of the school year to keep you motivated?
Is it time for a refresher course – or a kick in the pants?
Could you use a mid-season shake up? A fresh start?
Join us for the August Dear Diary class and take a good look at where your life could benefit from a do-over.
This class is ten weekdays – Monday, August 9 through Friday, August 13 and Monday, August 16 through Friday, August 20. That gives you a little mid-class break, which is the perfect opportunity to practice what you’ve learned.
Coach Heather will direct you in creating your very own fresh start. With help, you’ll identify areas of your life that need attention, and you’ll report on those each day, staying accountable to your coach and classmates. They’ll support you (and you’ll support them, too) with encouragement and suggestions for success. Coach Heather will also have specific questions for you each day, guiding you into that new beginning.
All members are automatically enrolled in our online classes. If you’re not a member, sign up today, and get your own fresh start with the Dear Diary class!
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!
This cruise is the perfect combination of luxury, fitness, knowledge and entertainment. During the 7-day cruise, the ship stops at exotic ports of call; at sea, there is a wide variety of lectures, workshops, and private consultations by leading authorities in the fields of alternative health and holistic healing.
You’ll get the opportunity to hear Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of The China Study, and take a cooking class from Christina Pirello, author of Cooking the Whole Foods Way. Christina and Marilu are also teaming up for a lecture called Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Men, Women, Food, Sex, Relationships, Career and Life. (You don’t want to miss that one!) And of course, Marilu is presenting (live!) the ever-popular Role of Your Life workshop.
All this while dining on specially prepared natural foods, swimming and snorkeling in the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean, and lounging in saunas and Turkish baths.
Start saving now – and book your cruise today!
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We’ve attended a few weddings this summer, and -wow!- can we tell that our fitness routine is, well, routine, after a night on the dance floor! (We has some seriously sore calf muscles and hip flexors? Ouch!)
Add some dancing to your regular workouts. You don’t have to become the Dancing Queen or the Disco King. Find dancing that you enjoy – ballroom and Latin ballroom dancing, square dancing and folk dancing, hip-hop and crunk will all give you moves on the dance floor at the next wedding or street dance. Plus, you’ll still be doing your regular workout – so you have a net gain in fitness (and the fun) time.
You don’t usually need a partner to take beginner classes, and most community centers, park and rec departments and community education districts offer beginner classes. Take a class with a bunch of friends or neighbors, or gather an all-ages group for even more fun. It will be practice for an upcoming wedding dance.
Here’s a main dish salad for a hot day (we’ve had a lot of those this summer!). It’s full of flavor and loaded with protein.
You can make the salad vegan by substituting about 1 cup of gently smashed garbanzo beans for the tuna. Or use your favorite bean (we like garbanzos because they have a texture similar to tuna when they’re smashed a little).
~*~ ~*~ ~*~ Tuscan Tuna Salad Blue * Serves 4
1 can (15 ounce) cannellini beans
1 can (6 ounce) water packed albacore tuna, drained
2 cups diced tomatoes
1/2 cup minced red onion
2 Tablespoons fresh basil or parsley, (dried is fine but cut in half)
1 Tablespoon olive oil
2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon Sucanat®
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
leaves of romaine
fresh parsley for garnish
1/2 lemon, cut into four wedges
In a large bowl, combine beans, tuna, tomatoes, red onions, and basil/parsley. Stir gently to avoid smashing the beans.
In a small bowl, whisk together olive oil, vinegar, lemon juice, sugar, garlic, mustard, salt and pepper. Pour dressing over salad and mix well. May be served immediately or chilled before serving.
Line four salad bowls with the romaine leaves, and scoop the tuna salad evenly among the bowls. Sprinkle with a little fresh parsley and serve with a lemon wedge.
Use this breathing technique as a way to center yourself before sleep, or anytime you’re under stress.
Lie in bed on your back, feet spread about a foot apart, toes falling to the outside, and arms falling to your sides about 4-5 inches from your body (if you do yoga, it’s the “corpse pose”).
Take a deep breath in, counting to five. Using the same pace, exhale, counting to ten. The goal is to exhale for twice as long as you inhale, but do that within your comfort zone.
Focus only on your breathing and releasing tension wherever you feel it in your body. It’s a great way to relax.
What do you believe?
What are your core values?
What convictions drive your behavior?
Sometimes we get caught up in what everyone else thinks – in the mass media version of truth, or the peer group version, or the parental version that was ingrained in us.
Find the convictions that drive your health.
Do you eat the food that gives you energy, or the food that everyone else is eating?
Do you spend your free time watching the latest reality tv show so you can talk about it at work – or do you spend it making your muscles and bones strong and powerful?
Are you creating the life you’ve always dreamed of every day, or living with someone else’s expectations?
Think about it.
Make choices; make changes. And get moving! Your body will love you for it.
You probably know what you should be doing for your health.
Is your excitement for healthy living waning in the heat and humidity?
Do you need the routine of the school year to keep you motivated?
Is it time for a refresher course – or a kick in the pants?
Could you use a mid-season shake up? A fresh start?
Join us for the August Dear Diary class and take a good look at where your life could benefit from a do-over.
This class is ten weekdays – Monday, August 9 through Friday, August 13 and Monday, August 16 through Friday, August 20. That gives you a little mid-class break, which is the perfect opportunity to practice what you’ve learned.
Coach Heather will direct you in creating your very own fresh start. With help, you’ll identify areas of your life that need attention, and you’ll report on those each day, staying accountable to your coach and classmates. They’ll support you (and you’ll support them, too) with encouragement and suggestions for success. Coach Heather will also have specific questions for you each day, guiding you into that new beginning.
All members are automatically enrolled in our online classes. If you’re not a member, sign up today, and get your own fresh start with the Dear Diary class! Coming up in September, an all-new class with Marilu! Stay tuned for more information.
, and take a cooking class from Christina Pirello, author of 
. Christina and Marilu are also teaming up for a lecture called Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Men, Women, Food, Sex, Relationships, Career and Life. (You don’t want to miss that one!) And of course, Marilu is presenting (live!) the ever-popular Role of Your Life workshop.
