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29 05, 2019

Can a Healthy, Budget-friendly Diet Include Processed Food?

By Rosanne Rust|2024-02-02T10:32:26-05:00May 29th, 2019|DASH Diet/Wellness, Easy Cooking, Food Facts, Food Trends, Health Professionals, Uncategorized, Wellness|2 Comments

You may have read several news pieces about the recent study comparing two small groups of people who were offered the same amount of calories of either "ultra-processed food" or "whole foods", but only the ultra-processed food group gained weight. The authors then conclude: "Limiting consumption of ultra-processed [...]

11 04, 2017

Pasta Ceci

By Rosanne Rust|2024-01-10T05:38:38-05:00April 11th, 2017|DASH Diet/Wellness, Easy Cooking, Family meals, Heart Disease, Recipe, Wellness|Comments Off on Pasta Ceci

This post contains affiliate links from products that I get a small commission on. Growing up Catholic with an Italian mother and grandmother, we went meatless on Fridays during Lent. Unlike many of our other Catholic counterparts who did fish fries, we usually at what my mother used [...]