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Kitchen Time-Savers

• April 18th, 2013 • Nonna's Nutrition News & Views

Get Organized Let’s face it, cooking meals can be time-consuming. Even if you love to cook like me, it takes planning and time to prepare wholesome meals. You will be more efficient in the kitchen, when your kitchen is well organized. Make sure every item in your kitchen has earned its right to take up [...]



Blueberry Oat Bran Muffins

• March 3rd, 2013 • Nonna's Nutrition News & Views

It’s a good idea to up the nutritional value of the foods a picky eater will eagerly eat, and Blueberry Oat Bran Muffins is a favorite! My Blueberry Oat Bran Muffins melt in your mouth. I love this muffin recipe because they are a snap to make and they’re sweetened with applesauce and a little [...]



Super Bowl Guilt-Free Snacking

• February 1st, 2013 • Nonna's Nutrition News & Views

Hosting a Super Bowl Party? What will you serve? According to a recent 2011 SUPERVALU® Snack Down Survey, the list of popular Super Bowl snacks include dips and spreads, chicken wings and pizza. Chips and salty snacks such as peanuts, popcorn or pretzels are present at most gatherings. Of course there’s the ever-popular burgers, hot [...]



When Life Gives You Lemons

• June 12th, 2012 • Kid-Friendly Drinks

…Make Lemonade Besides being summer’s most refreshing drink, lemons have an interesting history. Sailors on long sea journeys often developed scurvy, which results from a vitamin C deficiency. When the sailors consumed lemons and limes they’d stay healthy. English sailors earned the nickname “limey” from eating citrus on the high sea. Not only are lemons high in C, but potassium and [...]



Wishing I Was Wonder Woman

• May 2nd, 2012 • Nonna's Nutrition News & Views

I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to run “Wishing I Was Wonder Woman” again. I wrote this piece on the Proverbs 31 woman in May, 1990. I first posted it on this site in 2009. Happy Mother’s Day! Wishing I Was Wonder Woman It’s Mother’s Day again. I’m dreading the annual sermon on “A [...]



Treating Tiny Tummies

• April 13th, 2012 • Food as Medicine

Tiny Tummies Can Have Big Aches Kids are experiencing stomach issues more often. In fact, the occurrence of children developing adult-type illnesses and diseases is growing at an alarming rate. A mom from San Francisco asks for advicefor her 5-year-old daughter, who often complains of a tummy ache. The doctor doesn’t find anything wrong and suggests [...]



Don’t Be Mother Hubbard

• February 6th, 2012 • Emergency Preparations

Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To give her poor dog a bone: When she came there, The cupboard was bare, And so her poor dog had none. My little dogs, Phoebe and Mille, never have to worry about getting a dog bone. Although ol’ Mother Hubbard’s dog wasn’t as fortunate. In my last blog, “Food [...]



Make Healthy Resolutions for Your Kids

• December 29th, 2011 • Nonna's Nutrition News & Views

Resolve to Eat Healthy You can make one more resolution… for your children. If you want your kids to eat healthy foods, you need to make changes yourself. It’s up to you to resolve that your family will be healthy this coming year. Your kids eating habits will change when YOU change. We need to [...]



5 Tips for Healthy Happy Holidays

• December 15th, 2011 • Nonna's Nutrition News & Views

This is the busiest time of the year. It begins with Hanukkah, next Christmas and then New Year’s Eve celebrations, ending with January 1 football games and more partying. More people will be entertaining this month, than any other time of year. The challenge is how to eat healthy when sugar, white flour, altered fats, [...]



Have a Natural Thanksgiving

• November 17th, 2011 • Nonna's Relations

Thanksgiving is only days away. If you want to have a “Natural Thanksgiving” now is the time to think about it. A natural Thanksgiving sounds easy enough, but it takes some forethought. For the last 30 years, our Thanksgivings have been as natural (chemical free) as possible. Most Thanksgiving dinners are loaded with ingredients the Pilgrims [...]