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!

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.

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.

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?

We did some research for the nutritional stats of popular breakfast items offered in coffee houses and bakeries. The numbers are not pretty. Most of the large bakery items you see in our chart top 500 calories and this does not include the coffee drink that comes with them. We came to one conclusion: Big + Baked = Diet Mistake. If a pastry is the size of your hand or larger it is going to be roughly 500 calories.

Don’t let the food manufacturer tell you how much to eat – read the label and practice measuring
Watch funny examples of how big the packages really are – some look like one serving but are 3 servings!

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The most surefire way to a better appetite is to burn more calories – run, walk, play – limit screen time.

Here is our shopping list on video – spend just $63 and make over 15 delicious healthy meals all week

Do you know how much sugar is in soda, breakfast pastries, fruit yogurt, sports beverages and chocolate bars? You might be surprised when you see actual photographs of serving sizes and the amounts of added sugar, fat and sodium they contain. There is good news in our game though – salads, vegetables, fruits and vinegars are all better choices!

If you use a large serving bowl for dessert you will probably fill it. Does this mean the portion size is right? No.

Holidays are just around the corner.  With so many stressors in life today, this is the time to take some time for yourself….and find out what truly relaxes you.  Whether you find it relaxing to read, …