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Frosted Flakes: Do They Really Put A Tiger In Your Tank?

By on July 21, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

I was having breakfast with a five year old who insisted on taking an individual box of Frosted Flakes from a display. Of course she would, the little box is designed to appeal to a child. I’m not a cold cereal lover, but I have been known to grab a handful or two of those [...]

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You Probably Should Eat A Healthy Breakfast – Here’s Why . . .

By on May 24, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

My Mom always made me eat a “good” breakfast – eggs, leftover hamburgers from the night before, some kind of hot cereal made with milk.  My Mom grew up on a working farm – and farmers had the right idea about the need to fuel themselves for the coming day (and to use whatever food [...]

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Have You Noticed That Some Well-Known Chefs Are Shrinking?

By on March 18, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food

In girth that is.  The chef’s weight loss is frequently motivated by a health scare – although sometimes just by vanity or wanting to be more mobile and agile in the kitchen — many star chefs have devised their own plans for losing weight. Fortunately, for them, they have knowledge and their skill in the [...]

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Protein In The Morning: It’s A Good Thing

By on October 12, 2010 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

I had a weird day yesterday.  Everything was out of sync.  It started with breakfast.  With rare exception, I have nonfat Greek yogurt with fruit and two tablespoons of Grape Nuts every morning. Yesterday was an exception.  I didn’t have a bad breakfast – for a lot of people.  It just wasn’t a good breakfast [...]

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Are There Really Strawberries In Special K Red Berries And Nuts In Honey Nut Cheerios?

By on September 24, 2010 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Cereal, Cereal, And More Cereal Wow!  160 bowls of cereal a year, give or take, is the average American intake.  The most popular:  General Mills’ Cheerios, claiming  12.6% of the breakfast cereal market share. How To Pick A Good Cereal Step #1: check the ingredients and nutrition panel carefully. The very first ingredient should be [...]

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Red Berries Or Not?

By on August 27, 2010 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Shopping, Cooking, Baking

My husband loves his “red berry” cereal.  Not just any red berry cereal – but Special K Red Berries.  Plain old Special K, blueberry almond, or any other array of color and flavor just won’t do. Red Berry Facts The ingredients in Special K Red Berries : Rice, Whole grain wheat, Sugar, Wheat bran, Freeze-dried [...]

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