Why Meal Planning: Make and Compare Your Own List (plus FREE meal planning template)

Why Meal Planning: Make and Compare Your Own List (plus FREE meal planning template)

Why Meal Planning? To Always Be Prepared for Your Next Meal Before It’s Time to Eat Last night, despite feeling like making popcorn and watching a movie, I grabbed a pen and scribbled out a quick meal plan, went into the kitchen and started to cook.  Within 10 minutes I had the music turned up a [...]
How to Blanch Vegetables: A great solution for gardens at their peak and bulk buying produce

How to Blanch Vegetables: A great solution for gardens at their peak and bulk buying produce

How to Blanch Vegetables A great solution for gardens at their peak and bulk buying produce. Guest Post by CARE Nutrition Intern, Jacqui Gabel Photography: Jacqui Gabel   Problem: Gardens fully producing, overbuying, or just overflowing with vegetables! Tell me if this sounds familiar: I want to eat more vegetables daily, but I tend to [...]
How to Make Ghee (Clarified Butter)

How to Make Ghee (Clarified Butter)

The benefit: You can use butter at higher temps without burning. Ghee (clarified butter) is very (very) simple to make To start, I do want to recognize that in the purist definitions there are nuances between clarified butter and tradition ghee.  These exceptions are particularly important to Ayurvedic medicine and Asian religions that put sacred [...]
CARE Recipe: Vegan Coconut Berry Smoothie (Simple. Beautiful. Nutrient-rich)

CARE Recipe: Vegan Coconut Berry Smoothie (Simple. Beautiful. Nutrient-rich)

What does it mean to use Food as Medicine? Food as Medicine means that each food that you eat has a purpose. That purpose is to be an essential tool for your cells on projects like screening for cancer and repairing DNA. Nutrients are the tools that your cells need to complete projects. Projects like screening for cancer, [...]
Product Review: Black Bean Spaghetti – Pasta Becomes a Protein

Product Review: Black Bean Spaghetti – Pasta Becomes a Protein

Pasta Becomes a Protein! How Does Pasta Become a Protein? Make it from beans instead of grains. Explore Asian (R) bean-based pastas (black bean spaghetti, edamame spaghetti, and mung bean fettuccine) solve three common nutrition problems: Provides pasta lovers an alternative to carbohydrate-dense, blood sugar raising grain-based pastas Provides another wonderful plant-based protein source Provides [...]
CARE Snack: Turmeric Milk (If You Like Chai, Try This)

CARE Snack: Turmeric Milk (If You Like Chai, Try This)

Photography and content by Jacqui Gabel, CARE Nutrition Intern Turmeric Milk If You Like Chai, Try This You’ve probably heard of turmeric and all of its amazing therapeutic properties, most notably to help manage inflammation. But have you found a way to incorporate this spice into your diet more regularly? This is a valuable role [...]
CARE Recipe: Sautéed Leek Greens; Too Much Nutrition for the Compost Bin

CARE Recipe: Sautéed Leek Greens; Too Much Nutrition for the Compost Bin

Cooking Leek Greens Milder than onion, easy, and surprisingly delicious! I, admittedly, only recently found out how absolutely surprisingly delicious leek greens are (those dark green tops of leeks); and how easy to cook!  Leek greens seemed fibrous to me and so I defaulted to using them for stock (or compost).  I knew, just from [...]