August 15, 2010 – 10:30 am | No Comment

Learn 40 different ways to make delicious, healthy salads right on your iPhone with these recipes. PLUS receive our chef and dietitian tips to make your own salads healthy. See a photo gallery for ideas. Email them to yourself and friends. Choose from quick to masterpiece, meals or dessert salads now.

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Take a look inside the Food and Health Communications kitchen with this blog - busy family life, fast healthy meal ideas, cooking lessons, shopping tips, nutrition updates, food reviews, favorite dishes, what's for dinner and more!

Pasta Primavera Salad
August 16, 2010 – 7:34 pm | No Comment
Pasta Primavera Salad

View and download our pasta primavera salad handout or the free show on how to make a better salad – great for home or foodservice. You will love this favorite salad because it teaches you to use a lot more veggies than pasta so your salad looks tasty and helps you consume fewer calories!

Salad Secrets App
August 15, 2010 – 10:30 am | No Comment
Salad Secrets App

Learn 40 different ways to make delicious, healthy salads right on your iPhone with these recipes. PLUS receive our chef and dietitian tips to make your own salads healthy. See a photo gallery for ideas. Email them to yourself and friends. Choose from quick to masterpiece, meals or dessert salads now.

Pound of Melon
August 2, 2010 – 9:00 am | 6 Comments
Pound of Melon

Do you eat “value meals” at fast food counters? If so, you might want to read our comparison about a different kind of value food – value for your wallet, value for your health and value for how much food you get to eat for so few calories.

Eat This Not That
July 27, 2010 – 11:45 pm | Comments Off
Eat This Not That

Eat This Not That is a great show that follows a typical American path through a busy day with no menu planning. Donuts, sugared beverages, pizza, sandwiches, cheesy pasta, and more are depicted, along with the better choices you can make whether out or at home. No more bulleted lists, pyramids, charts, research studies. Just eat this and not that.

12 Salad Presentations
July 26, 2010 – 12:00 pm | 5 Comments
12 Salad Presentations

Salad is the biggest “food group” in our recipe categories – we have 100 salads in our new Celebrate Salad eCookbook. Here are 12 GREAT ways to present a salad from a professional chef whose passion is to cook healthy and make a lot of salads.

Take Your Salad to Work
July 19, 2010 – 5:49 pm | 2 Comments
Take Your Salad to Work

Did you know you can take a salad to work? We have one here that takes minutes to make and it is gorgeous. You will be the envy of your whole office and hopefully, since you will skip the commute and line at the lunch palace, you will have time to walk. Pictures, story, recipe here….

3 Bs of Label Reading
July 18, 2010 – 6:06 pm | One Comment
3 Bs of Label Reading

Here are the three Bs of Label Reading that will teach you what you really need to know about shopping, reading food labels and getting a grip on the calories you bring into your house.

5 Ways to Make Salad
July 7, 2010 – 10:27 pm | 12 Comments
5 Ways to Make Salad

We are starting to make and photograph all of our recipes – over 1000! First up – 25 salads in 2 days. What we discovered, is that there is more than one way to make a salad! Here are fun tips, photos and recipes so easy you don’t need a recipe. Vote on your favorite or give us a tip and win a prize.

Low Sodium Vegetarian Pizza
July 5, 2010 – 7:58 pm | 10 Comments
Low Sodium Vegetarian Pizza

You don’t have to give pizza up – you just have to make it smarter. Watch our high definition video in 1.5 minutes and start making your own pizza at home – this can save you 42,000 mg of sodium and $130 per year over the delivery or restaurant version. Enjoy!

Lunch Portion Control
June 8, 2010 – 7:47 am | 15 Comments
Lunch Portion Control

Watch our Portion Control for Lunch video in one minute – and see what you are really getting in that deli sandwich – and better still, find out a better way to plan lunch and eat just 400 really healthy calories. We are big on salad and small on bread here.

5 Mistakes of Label Reading
June 4, 2010 – 7:36 am | 13 Comments
5 Mistakes of Label Reading

The 5 Mistakes of Label Reading sum up the 5 most common mistakes made when shopping for packaged foods in the grocery store. How many times do people ignore Nutrition Facts Labels, choose packages and bottles that look like one serving but are really more, buy items that contain way too much sodium, or imagine they can munch all day on lowfat or sugar free items?

Double Lemon Cheesecake
May 30, 2010 – 12:16 pm | 4 Comments
Double Lemon Cheesecake

Here is a light, reduced-calorie cheesecake. It is perfect for summer. You can make it more elegant by serving it with fresh fruit. You’ll save 100 calories and 11 grams of fat per slice as compared to the same-sized piece of traditional cheesecake. Better still, this one is creamier than most cheesecake and we know you will love the double lemon flavor.