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Americans love strawberries. In fact, according to the California Strawberry Commission, 94% of Americans eat them. That’s not surprising when you consider that California, which produces 88% of the strawberries grown in the United States, produced over 1.8 billion pounds of them in 2003. Production continues to soar, as does our appetite for […]

I am probably the last person on earth who would ever say I enjoy exercise. I have joined a gym only to see my checking account depleting and my weight stagnant. I have never enjoyed doing more than five minutes on the stationary bike since the seat hurts my rear. Once I start breaking into […]

Potato salad is synonymous with summer, BBQs and picnics. Like peanut butter and jelly, you really can’t have one without the other. In a recent issue of Latina Magazine, there was a feature on three ways to make Cuban Potato Salad … Traditional, Healthy and Fast. Guess which one I chose? Gold star if you […]

By Patti Villers with Cameron Villers
For this month’s entry I thought we’d share an interesting non-alcoholic drink recipe that our son Cameron made for a project in his high school Spanish IV class. Cameron has just finished his junior year and Spanish is one of his best subjects. He said his classmates who sampled the […]

I am a big fan of boiled crabs. As a child in New Orleans, maybe aged 4 or 5, my parents would take me to Brunings Restaurant at West End to share a meal with my dad’s family. The table would be stacked high with hot boiled crabs and we would all eat with abandon. […]

It should come as no surprise that eating fish is good for you. After all, we wrote about the merits of it recently. Having a diet that is rich in omega-3 fatty acids can stave away many things, and one is age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a deterioration of the retina that leads to eventual blindness. […]

In a recent initiative to bring a renewed spark to the historically unglamorous prune, Sunsweet, along with the prune growers of America have re-dubbed this oft-maligned dried fruit as: “dried plums.”
I, for one, have always enjoyed the prune, regardless of any connotations to “regularity” and geriatrics it may carry.
I mean, they’re chewy, moist and mainly, […]

I think I might have cheered the day the box of Nature Valley cereal appeared in my mailbox. Of course, I was expecting the sample, I’d volunteered to test it out when I saw it was available for us here at Fit Fare. But the day it came, I was just so excited to […]

Some days, having a well stocked pantry can crucial for post workout recovery. I like to keep my pantry filled with canned beans, such as garbanzos and cannellini. Sometimes, I might finish up a workout and be starving for a filling lunch with some protein to help my muscles recover and some […]

When I first read the announcement that “hemp milk” was hitting the market, I was curious, but apprehensive. It sounded like a bit of a stretch. Then, when I heard a second company was releasing their own “hemp milk,” I thought “come on, there isn’t room for two brands already, is there?”
Yet, as someone who […]