Nutrition

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My Healthy Protein Muffins

My wife has a need for a good, quick, high protein & high fiber breakfast. She is in medical school and has to get up really early most days to go to the hospital and so she doesn’t have time anymore to eat her normal breakfast of either oatmeal or Egg Beaters. Her default […]

Know your Spuds

Mmmm, man food, meat and potatoes. And yet this is a nutritional food blog, so can I still do man food? I know can do healthy meat (but that is another post) but can I do healthy potatoes?
Yes, yes I can.
But first, a primer on the humble spud.
Potato Primer
Potatoes are swollen stems, or tubers, […]

My Favorite Buns

No, this post isn’t about what Catherine Zeta-Jones did in Entrapment, it is actually about my favorite brand of hamburger or sandwich buns.
These buns are relatively hard to find. In the two grocery stores where I regularly shop, the smaller one (only slightly smaller, still a big honking store) doesn’t carry them, only the slightly […]

Healthy Pasta

Pasta doesn’t need to be unhealthy. As I say in my nutritional philosophy if you get the right kind of pasta it can really have good nutritional value.
Whole wheat pasta has been around for a long time, but this fortified pasta is new. I first saw it in Amazon.com’s grocery section, but eventually found […]

My Nutrition Philosophy (or Chris’s Magical Miracle Diet)

I’ve never been fat in my life. My brothers were all large at one point growing up (they’ve since yoyo’d, though one is skinny now), my Dad is, but I was always the skinny one. I have a few life experiences that have punctuated my nutritional beliefs. The first I recall is when my older […]

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