Monthly Archives: August 2011

Meal Planning Tuesday: Chickpeas

Garbanzo beans, ceci beans, Indian peas, chana, Bengal gram…there are lots of different names for chickpeas.  For the longest time I didn’t really think they were good for anything beyond making hummus or sprinkling over a salad.  As a vegetable with an extremely high protein content, they are a surprisingly useful little legume. Chickpeas are…

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What I’ve Been Up To…

The past week has been a little hectic, but we’ve worked out our schedules, and I’ll be posting regularly again.  The hubs and I are both in school full-time again, but my schedule was in limbo while I waited for spaces in my online classes to open up.  Thankfully, I only have to make the…

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Fab Five Friday: Kitchen Gadgets Under $20

I’m always looking for ways to make healthy cooking easier without taking shortcuts that sacrifice nutrition or flavor.  I’m also a sucker for cute, brightly colored gadgets.  While I could blissfully spend ridiculous sums of money at Williams-Sonoma or Crate and Barrel on bizarre, single-task-specific kitchen gadgets, here are some fun and useful tools that…

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Chicken Fingers and Roasted Green Bean “Fries”

Looking for a healthy alternative to fried fast foods for your family?  These chicken fingers are marinated in yogurt, rolled in whole wheat panko bread crumbs and baked until golden brown and crispy.  You can roast the green beans in the oven at the same time to make healthy “fries.”  This dinner takes very little…

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Workout #2

This workout is designed to be alternated with Workout #1. For this workout, you will need: 1.  A way to keep time…stopwatch, cell phone, kitchen timer, wall clock.  Something that beeps and is easy to set works fine.  If you want to get fancy, you can invest in an interval timer. 2.  A wall. 3….

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