by Toni | Jul 29, 2019 | Be Simple, Healthy Treats, Let's Eat
So, candy. Should it have a place in your diet? Well, if you read this blog consistently, you will know that I feel candy, despite its usually terrible rep, has a place, albeit a conservatively small place, in a healthy diet. What we eat, whether we are conscious of...
by Toni | Jul 29, 2019 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Vegetables
Ok, enough with bad punning because there is nothing bad or far away about this easy, totally-transportable salad that tastes just like a summer garden. But it’s true, isn’t it? Just when all the great salad fixin’s arrive at the farmers markets—the tomatoes, bell...
by Toni | Jul 28, 2019 | Be Simple, Come Home, Let's Eat
My friend Mary Lynn is always sharing these wonderful little stories about how food is so much more than just sustenance, just nutrition for the body. You may recall the post from a while back on her banana bread story. She also tells this touching tale about a...
by Toni | Jul 28, 2019 | Fruits, Let's Eat
Remember when “fruit pizzas” were really popular—I think my daughter was in grade school then. You bought the Slice and Bake Sugar Cookie Dough from the little Pillsbury Dough Boy and rolled the whole log into a big round pizza crust, baked it and then iced it with...
by Toni | Jun 29, 2019 | Be Simple, Live Green
Okay, here is a not-so-happy idea: the older I get, the more unwelcome changes my body presents. Perhaps, you’ve had similar ideas as the years have passed. We can whine and pout, but I think it is more productive to face maturity head on—embrace the wisdom of age...
