Breathe Magazine

I love homemade pasta sauce, but I don’t love slaving over the stove, letting it simmer and marinate while I drool with anticipation. I also hate that good sauce seems to come in large batches. Sure, it’s great to freeze all those left overs if you can find the tupperware, but why not just make [...]

Every summer I stock my freezer full of all the berries I couldn’t eat fast enough. And, by summer’s end, the freezer is bursting with a colorful mix of blues, reds, and purples. I find that freezing the berries before they turn is not only less wasteful, but it is a great way to have [...]

As you begin to live a greener lifestyle, one thing that you’ll notice time and time again, is a reduced need for processed foods. Processed foods come with a bunch of packaging and it takes energy to make them in huge factories and then deliver them to a store near you. Learning to make your own [...]

A couple months ago I won a  Breville Juicer from Foodbuzz and finally started using it. I have always been very interested in juicing, but didn’t want to fork out the dough or cut off my right arm for a juicer. I really like the juicer that they sent me and now think it is [...]

I love mexican inspired foods. On a regular basis, I crave tender beans, crunchy chips, creamy guacamole and fiery salsa. These foods soothe my soul and provide complete, nutrient-packed meals for us non-meat eaters. Because the combinations are simple, you’ve got to mix up the technique so that every day meals don’t grow monotonous. Recently, [...]

I’ve heard that living with a guy makes you more likely to gain weight and now that I’m shacking up with Ben (my husband) I can completely see why. It seems I have picked up more of his unhealthy habits than he has picked up my healthy ones!
Since I’m making dinner for a man now, [...]

Since starting up my dietetic internship, which is 40-45 hours a week of full-time work, often with a hefty commute ( ), I’ve been one busy girl. While I was in school, many of my blog readers would email me to ask how I would handle eating if my time was short. Here [...]

To know me in real life, is to know that I cook A LOT.  I do not schedule events, meetings, or workouts after 5pm.  That is the time to be home cooking things up!   At last count, I had over 50 cookbooks that I truly have read/used/highlighted/re-used, etc… Most of my ideas for cooking, [...]

This super simple recipe was recently passed along to me by a good friend (thank you Aurelie!) and amazing cook. It’s a traditional italian dish that has been simplified so that it takes no time to make and only requires a handful of ingredients.
Ingredients:
1 bunch asparagus (rinsed and ends cut off)
good parmesean cheese
1/4 cup croutons [...]

“Let’s see if I can tell you something about osteoporosis you don’t already know.” That’s what Sally Field asked me from her latest Boniva commercial the other day. After these past two months of calcium research and experimentation, I’m pretty sure my response to Sally is, “No, you can’t.” (Obviously there’s always more I could [...]

After last week’s slip-up, I’ve  gotten my act together. 6 weeks into this, I finally had a week of good, decently healthy, and tasty eating, with an average of almost 75% calcium intake each day. Right now I’m a bit obsessed with recipes, planning for next week’s Thanksgiving extravaganza, so for this week’s post I [...]

Wow. I apologize. I’ve really let everyone down this week, with an average of only 54% calcium in my diet. I’d like to blame it on being stuck at the Logan Airport Hilton outside Boston for three days at a conference, with no dining option other than Connolly’s – a hotel restaurant with crappy food [...]

My sister came to visit this week, and in the course of a conversation about how much milk we drink (see how writing this blog has changed my daily interactions?) she mentioned that her roommate has been diagnosed with calcium overload. So to anyone who’s read this blog about trying to hit 100% of the [...]

I love to use fruits and vegetables that are in season.  For this reason, I tend to purchase large amounts of seasonal produce and try to whip up new and fabulous recipes with them!  This recipe came purely out of convenience and a little laziness.  I had some beautiful brussel sprouts leftover from a previous [...]

Eating habits during the holiday season seem to be split into two groups: those who eat whatever they please, party after party, and gain the yearly five pounds, and those who do their very best to diet throughout the season and end up deprived or guilty. This year, make the commitment to find a balance [...]