When was the last time you cleaned out your refrigerator? If it’s been a while, why not start today? November 15th is National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day—right before the holiday season begins, so you can have plenty of space to store a turkey and leftovers! This can seem like a daunting task but you …
Are You Sure That’s Safe To Eat While Pregnant?
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest contributor, Katya, is a nurse-midwife who asked a simple question and found herself on a mission to improve food safety in pregnancy. Nurse-midwives engage in disease prevention and health education as a hallmark of our profession. Avoiding listeriosis is a key component of food safety during pregnancy. Listeria monocytogenes is a …
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What You Shouldn’t Learn from Celebrity Chefs
In today’s culinary culture, we get to learn how to cook and find new recipes through so many outlets. Gone are the days of Julia, Jacque, and Yan—PBS is not the only cooking channel in town! Today, we have networks dedicated to cooking shows and finding the next celebrity chef. Publishers release so many cookbooks …
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Busting Food Safety Myths
What’s your first thought when you get food poisoning? Probably something along the lines of, “I must’ve gotten this from the [insert recently eaten meal] that I ate at [insert recently visited restaurant]!” One of the biggest myths that people believe about food safety is that they get it from eating out. While you are …
Eat It, Don’t Toss It
Did you know that American families throw away almost 50% of their produce, either from expired food, uneaten leftovers, or spoiled produce? In dollars and cents, that translates to a family of four discarding about $1,600 worth of produce per year! So, in March, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics celebrated National Nutrition Month with …
Keep the Taste of Summer All Year Long
Blueberry season has finally arrived and Pick-Your-Own (PYO) farms across the state are open for picking. I love fresh, local blueberries, so I was thrilled to wake up on a recent Sunday morning with comfortable temperatures in the high-70s. Mother Nature was giving my heat-sensitive kids at least 30 minutes to pick before they started …