Fit Fare

This hearty chili cooks all day in the slow-cooker, which makes it nice to come home to at the end of the work day. Amounts of ingredients highly adjustable; shift quantities according to personal preference.
Low Fat Chicken Chili
- 1 recipe chicken stock or a two quarts prepared stock
Note: Homemade chicken stock is sort of time-consuming […]

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It’s not just an old wives’ tale: breakfast matters. However, many of us are guilty of skipping breakfast or making poor choices when we do it eat it. Even though it feels like a small, light meal, breakfast menus are full of fat-bombs and other nutritional wastelands. How do you balance the […]

 
 
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I recently had the pleasure to visit Napa Valley, the foremost wine region in the United States, on par with the finest France, Spain, and Italy have to offer. This reputation was cemented at the 1976 Paris Wine Tasting, in which Napa Chardonnays and Cabernet Sauvignons bested French offerings in blind […]

Winter squash is easy to find year-round in most grocery stories, but it’s actually a misnomer: these hard squashes are considered part of the fall harvest bounty. The name comes from the fact that they are very hardy and store well, so they can be harvested in the fall and enjoyed all throughout […]

“Why do we need so many different kinds of apples? Because there are so many different kinds of folks. A person has a right to gratify his legitimate tastes. If he wants 20 or 40 kinds of apples for his personal use, running from ‘Early Harvest’ to ‘Roxbury Russet’, he should be afforded the privilege….There […]

Sometimes cooking and eating in a healthy way can be exhausting. There’s the counting of calories, carbs, and fat grams, the search for organic and locally-grown produce, the avoidance of trans-fats, the limiting of red meats, the inclusion of superfoods, and more. Once you’ve assembled all your high-quality ingredients, the last thing you […]

As much as most of us would like to prepare healthy, from-scratch meals every time we eat, we often find ourselves in a predicament. Eating should be a pleasure, not a chore, and a very labor-intensive cooking experience isn’t always appealing on a busy weeknight. We’re often warned about the evils of convenience […]

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In an effort to reduce the fat and calories in one’s diet, many of us look to food preparations that use little or no additional fats. It’s a great way to lighten up a dish, but reducing fat often means reducing flavor. Fortunately, it’s […]

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um cepa, better known as the common onion, is one of the baselines of cooking. Cajun and creole cuisines count onions in their “holy trinity,” a mixture of onions, celery and bell pepper that forms the basis of many dishes. Indian food […]

Business travel can seem like a never-ending stream of airport food, mediocre buffets, snack breaks with soggy pastries, and hotel vending machines. Like everything else about healthy eating, sometimes the smarter options don’t immediately present themselves, but they can be found if you try hard enough. Let us walk through a typical day […]