Substantiate Your Salad

I wanted to give you some tips on how to increase the fruits and vegetables in your diet.  A great way is to add salads to  your day. Many think of salads as “rabbit food” as my dear Hubby refers to them. But it doesn’t have to be the case. I just saw a great meal salad on The Today Show-Spinach & Sweet Potato Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing.

Quick & Healthy Drink

During the holidays my in-laws visited and shared their Ecuadorian customs and foods. We had a great time. One healthy and delicious drink I would like to share is called Colada. There are two ways of making it both have the same ingredients.

My Diet Soda Downfall

Before I began my wellness journey I drank at least a 6-pack of diet soda every day. I drank nothing else. Water was repulsive.  After several years of doing this I began to experience extreme chronic fatigue that got progressively worse and generalized joint pain over my entire body. I began to visit the doctors, had numerous blood tests

What to do with Junk Food Cravings

I am trying to eat better and clean up my diet and that of my family. I DO have those cravings though. I want to tell you what NOT to do. Recently I was craving McDonalds. I fought this craving daily for about 1 week. One night I was running late with the kids from Karate, Dad was away (so no need to cook) &