Archive for September, 2010

ThinkFood Cookbook Giveaway

Earlier this year I had the amazing opportunity to contribute one of my recipes to a cookbook, the ThinkFood Cookbook – Recipes for Brain Fitness, featuring 50 brain-healthy recipes from bloggers around the globe. You can read more about it here. The cookbook has finally made it to print, and it’s beautiful with gorgeous color [...]

ThinkFood Cookbook Giveaway is a post from: Laurel On Health Food

Give Me Vegan!

Before I went to school in NYC and moved up to Manhattan, I never knew much about vegan food. There’s just a big stereotype out there that vegan fare is crazy hippie food that tastes funny. But now that I’ve been tasting some of the best vegan fare this city has to offer…I am in [...]

Give Me Vegan! is a post from: Laurel On Health Food

Easy Chicken Salad

Here’s a great idea for leftovers! We roasted a chicken over the weekend and I needed something to do with the leftovers. I made a quick chicken salad today and ate it on some toast for a seriously filling lunch. Hope you likey! As usual, I switched out the mayonaise in traditional chicken salads for [...]

Easy Chicken Salad is a post from: Laurel On Health Food

Pineapple Fried Rice

It was so nice having an extra day off for Labor Day. I spent the weekend cooking, shopping, working out, and watching movies. I had to sneak some resting time in there because two of my close friends are coming up next weekend. I need to make sure I keep my energy up! On Saturday [...]

Pineapple Fried Rice is a post from: Laurel On Health Food

Cut Cancer Risk with Vitamin K

Vitamin K is such an important vitamin, but we never hear much about it. In your body, vitamin K works to keep your blood clotting normally, prevent bones from breaking, prevent hardening of your arteries, and protect against cancer. A recent Mayo Clinic study found that people who ate lots of vitamin-K rich foods were [...]

Cut Cancer Risk with Vitamin K is a post from: Laurel On Health Food

YogaEarth Balance Review, Giveaway

For the past two weeks I’ve been taking YogaEarth’s Balance Pre-Practice nutritional supplements. They are powdered drink packets developed by a group of 250 yoga teachers and are designed to “remov[e] obstacles…such as digestive issues, muscle fatigue and cramping, and mental clarity and focus.” I’ve been taking the packets about an hour and a half [...]

YogaEarth Balance Review, Giveaway is a post from: Laurel On Health Food

Vanilla Almond Butter

My friend Jill is a fellow healthy eating blogger, and she asked me to write a guest post for her blog this week. I shared my recipe for vanilla almond butter that you can make at home with four simple ingredients. Check it out at the link below. I hope you like it! Vanilla Almond [...]

Vanilla Almond Butter is a post from: Laurel On Health Food