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Category: Lifelong Health

Lasagna Recipe

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My lasagna specialty of the house is Kathy’s Lasagna vegetarian style.  I skip the beef and often use tofu instead.  However, you can choose to make it with beef, you can make it with spinach, you can make it with eggplant…various versions are included in the recipe below.  When I make this lasagna, everyone loves it because the sauce is cooked from scratch.  The secret is in the sauce! Continue Reading

How Your Friends Make It Easy To Stick With Your Goals

Fruits & Vegetables, Wines & Beers

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Salad at a Parisian restaurant

This is a diary of the healthy lifestyle goals that my son, Chris, and I are making together each month.

Since it takes 21-30 days to develop a new habit, making a new goal each month is an effective way to improve your health.

In December, my goal was to make half of each plate fruits and vegetables.  Chris’ goal was to enjoy trying the wines and beers of his European tour.  😉 Continue Reading

How Your Friends Make It Easy to be Fit and Trim

fruit and veg color wheel

 

Click here to find out what nutritional advantage you get from each color of fruit and vegetable.

Five-a-Day & Cutting Down Serving Sizes

This is a diary of the healthy lifestyle goals that my son, Chris, and I are making together each month.

Since it takes 21 days to develop a new habit, making a new goal each month is an effective way to improve your health.

In November, my goal was to eat more than five fruits and vegetables a day.  Chris’ goal was to cut down on his serving sizes because he felt like he was eating too much. Continue Reading

How to Make Sweet Potatoes Special with No Sugar Added

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Sweet Potato and Apple Casserole with Thanksgiving dinner

Thanksgiving is coming, and to help you celebrate, I am sharing a sweet potato recipe that is healthy as well as delicious.  It is made with pure and simple ingredients, no sugar needed.  It became a tradition in my family for Thanksgiving because my father was hypoglycemic and another family member was diabetic.  Whether the whole family is healthy or there are special needs, this is good for everyone and tastes so good, too.  Age doesn’t matter when you eat right! Continue Reading

How Your Friends Make It Easy to be Healthy: Boot Camp & More

Five-a-Day, Water Instead of Pop, and Don’t Slip Back

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Time for fruits and vegetables

This is a diary of the healthy lifestyle goals that my son, Chris, and I are making together each month.

September was a whirlwind of activity, as we prepared for the premiere of Loserville the Film.  Chris was involved in promotion of the movie that he starred in, and we booked our trips and packed for Hollywood to attend the premiere on September 29th.  Also, at the beginning of the Month, my husband and I traveled to his niece’s wedding.   Chris and I kept to our previous goals, but did not make new goals until October. 

In October, my new goal was to eat five fruits and vegetables a day.  Chris’ goal was to reinforce all of his previous goals because he was slipping back on various things, such as drinking pop and eating burgers and greasy foods.  So he added the goal of drinking water instead of pop. Continue Reading