Thursday, June 30, 2011

Food and Health Carnival June 30

Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living



Do you have a Favorite Recipe, a Great Tip, a Great Resource or a Giveaway? Do you have a Giveaway Linky or Recipe Carnival on your blog? Or maybe you would just like to share your Food or Health Blog/Website.

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All I ask for in return is for you to add my blog button above to your blog and/or a link to my website. Lisa’s Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living. Another idea is that you could add my link to your blog roll. Thank-You.


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This week I will share with you: Gluten Free Travel

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Four Techniques for Staying Young, Trim, and Healthy

To stay young, trim, and healthy, you should set the appropriate objectives and posses the right attitude. Stay healthy and young by eating a healthy diet, keep yourself trim and feeling good with proper physical exercise, and give your system time to recover by getting sufficient rest.


Keeping fit and healthy is certainly a tough task every individual faces. It is one of the fundamentals for staying happy, rich, and even fulfilled. Below are a few techniques to remaining young, trim, and healthy:


Set the right objectives and have the appropriate attitude


The key secret to keeping yourself healthy and young is setting realistic goals and being true to them. You must have dedication and discipline to achieve a fit body. Patience likewise helps, knowing what outcomes may only appear after weeks or months of doing healthy behavior.


Stay healthy and young by doing right diet


Diet has an essential role in making you feel good and keeping your body fit. Here are some healthy drinking and eating behaviors you may consider:


* Drink at least eight glasses of drinking water each day. This doesn’t contain fruit drinks and also other fluids. You should consume pure water to keep the body hydrated and keep your entire body systems in good working condition. Water also makes the skin healthy and glowing with a younger look.


* Do not skip breakfast every day. If you think skipping breakfast will let you lose weight, you are wrong. Research shows that without a morning meal, individuals tend to take in more calories throughout the day.


Missing breakfast also results in increased bad cholesterol levels and also artery blocking, which can cause heart illnesses and various ailments. It also reduces levels of insulin, that controls sugar in your body.


* Add a piece of meat, more vegetables and fruits for lunch and dinner. A veggie salad with bits of chicken and some essential olive oil or vinaigrette dressing is really healthy for a meal. Stay away from mayo-based dressings since they are full of fats.


* Be careful about your snacks. While you need to be watchful of the food you eat during your 3 full meals, you also need to watch your snack foods. Nutritious snacks in portion-controlled amounts, such as a piece of apple, certain cut up vegetables, or a little muffin, are good for you.


* Take supplements with your physician’s consent to help keep you young, trim, and also healthy. There are various nutritional supplements in several forms, like powdered beverages, capsule health supplements including fish-oil to help burn calories quicker, as well as pills, like GenF20 Plus to keep you young and healthy.


Keep yourself fit and feeling great with right exercise


Together with appropriate diet, physical exercise is important to keep your body healthy and strong. At least thirty minutes of physical exercise six days per week is sufficient to burn calories and keep you healthier. You can visit the gym to exercise or do brisk walking, biking, or jogging. Choose an exercise you want to make your physical exercise more fulfilling yet effective.


Provide your body time to recover by having ample rest


Too much pressure could cause the body systems to operate inappropriately, leading to hastened aging and also diseases. To keep your self young and healthy, you can rest at home or in the office by meditating, relax at the beach or any other scenic and relaxing places, go for a massage therapy, and above all, give yourself enough time to sleep. An average of 6 to 8 hours of sleep enables your body to rest well, restore, and get ready for another day.


It may not be very easy to keep yourself young, trim, and healthy, but with the right attitude, the right habits, and determination, a happier and healthier you is never impossible to achieve.



Monday, June 27, 2011

Healthy Chef Creations

I came across “Healthy Choice Creations” and thought they would be a valuable resource for the gluten free community. This company offers home meal delivery, food delivery service and you can have weight loss meals delivered.

 

Healthy Choice Creations provides meals that cater to everyone, even people who have specific dietary needs. The company also specializes in catering and cooking classes. 



Healthy gourmet meals are for the whole family. They offer gluten free, dairy free, low carbohydrate, low salt, and vegetarian meals. They even have meals for people who want to loose weight, pregnant women and for children. The company even carries supplements. 

 

One of the salads that appealed to me is their Spa Chicken Salad that is made with free range chicken, organic celery, red seedless grapes, red onions, granny smith apples, walnuts, and seasonings all laid on a bed of lettuce. Sounds good doesn't it? 

 

In conclusion, their meals are healthy, can accommodate to your every need and look very appealing. I encourage you to check out Healthy Chef Creations.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Food and Health Carnival June 23

Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living
Do you have a Favorite Recipe, a Great Tip, a Great Resource or a Giveaway? Do you have a Giveaway Linky or Recipe Carnival on your blog? Or maybe you would just like to share your Food or Health Blog/Website.

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This week I will share with you: Gluten Free Baking Tips

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies


Flourless Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies


Makes about 2-3 dozen cookies.


Ingredients:
1 Cup Creamy or Chunky Peanut Butter (for sugar free, use natural peanut butter)
1 1/4 Cups Sugar (for sugar free, use splenda, stevia or xylitol)
1 Egg
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 Cup Chocolate Chip Cookies (optional)(for sugar free, use sugar free chocolate chips)


Directions:



  • Preheat oven 350 degrees

  • Line cookie sheet with parchment paper

  • Combine the peanut butter, sugar, egg, baking soda, vanilla and chocolate chips(optional) in a big blow, mix until smooth

  • Drop the batter by the spoonful onto the cookie sheet 

  • Dip a fork into sugar and press the fork on the cookies making a crisscross design.

  • Bake the cookies 8-10 minutes or till golden brown

  • Cool for 5 minutes before serving

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Food and Health Carnival June 16

Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living
Do you have a Favorite Recipe, a Great Tip, a Great Resource or a Giveaway? Do you have a Giveaway Linky or Recipe Carnival on your blog? Or maybe you would just like to share your Food or Health Blog/Website.

Add your link to my Food and Health Carnival.
All I ask for in return is for you to add my blog button above to your blog and/or a link to my website. Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living. Another idea is that you could add my link to your blog roll. Thank-You.

Add Your Gluten-Free and/or Healthy Living Blog to my Directory.
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This week I will share with you: A Beginner's Guide to Going Gluten-Free

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Mom's Place Gluten Free Giveaway Winner


Congratulations to the winner of the Mom's Place Gluten Free Giveaway. And the winner is #7 Ursula, you have won a box of gluten free mixes from Mom's Place Gluten Free. I used random.org to determine the winner.


Mom's Place Gluten-Free is the collaboration of three ladies, that have vast experience in the homemaking field. When they started looking into the availability and economy of providing gluten-free meals and treats for their families and friends, they realized there was a real need for affordable and tasty varieties of these food products. After much research and testing, the idea of Mom's Place came to fruition with the ladies forming a partnership dedicated to the following principles:

•Fulfilling the needs of the gluten-intolerant community


•Giving mothers and caregivers a healthy and affordable option for their families

•Relieving the burden and stress of those feeding the gluten-intolerant

•Mentoring those in need of improving homemaking skills

•Preparing a new generation for a healthy and productive future

 


 

 

Mom's Place Gluten Free has a variety gluten free products to choose from:



Mixes


  • Breads

  • Breakfast

  • Cookies/Cakes

  • Dinners

  • Dips, Sauces and Soups

  • Kids Stuff


Staples


  • Baking Supplies

  • Flour

  • Spices


Baking Tools, Pasta and Recipes.

Thank-you everyone for entering this giveaway, it was allot of fun.


Thursday, June 9, 2011

Food and Health Carnival June 9

Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living
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This week I will share with you: 5 Gluten-Free Beers for the Brew Aficionado

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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

5 Gluten-Free Beers for the Brew Aficionado

When you're going out and you're on a gluten-free regimen, you pretty much have to assume that the beers on tap at most establishments contain gluten. After all, the vast majority of beers are made with wheat and/or barley as base ingredients. For the beer-lovers among us, this can be a real drag. But this doesn't mean you have to forgo beer entirely in your home. There are a number of gluten-free beers on the market today bottled by companies that go out of their way to make sure beer can be enjoyed by the gluten-free community. I did a little research and was able to find a number of craft brewers and beer-makers who offer gluten-free brews:

1.) Bard's
Bard's beer, described as "the original sorghum malt beer," is a craft beer specially developed by two men diagnosed with celiac disease who felt it was unfair that good beer was out of reach for the millions of people who had the same disease. The beer contains no wheat, barley, rye or oats. The company name is Bard's Tale Beer Company.

2.) Redbridge
Redbridge beer is also made from sorghum and is made without wheat or barley. Targeted toward those with celiac disease and those on wheat-free or gluten-free diets, the beer is described as "a rich, full-bodied lager" with a "well-balanced, moderately-hopped taste." Redbridge is a product of Anheuser-Busch.

3.) Green's Gluten-Free Beers
This UK-based beer company specializes in producing a number of gluten-free beers. Options include Premium Golden Ale and Premium Pils, as well as Blonde, Dark and Brown Ales. The beers get their signature taste from de-glutenized barley malt and hop varieties, its website indicates.

4.) New Planet Gluten-Free Beer
Based in Colorado, this brewing company specializes in producing a number of gluten-free beers and uses sorghum as an alternative to wheat and barley. On its website, the company goes out of its way to explain the detailed process it goes through to make sure their beers are gluten-free. Beer options from New Planet include Tread Lightly Ale, 3R Raspberry Ale and Off Grid Pale Ale. New Planet is also an environmentally-friendly operation.

5.) New Grist Beer
Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the beer capital of America, Lakefront Brewery, Inc. produces a gluten-free beer brewed from sorghum and rice. Lakefront sells other, non-gluten-free beers as well, and its website lets you search for distributors in your area.

These represent just a small sampling of some of the best-known gluten-free beers. Bottom line? You don't have to give up your favorite beverage when you go gluten-free! Just remember everything in moderation.

Author Bio:
This guest post is contributed by Leslie Johnson, who writes about health, green living, parenting related articles at masters in health administration.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Food and Health Carnival June 2

Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living
Do you have a Favorite Recipe, a Great Tip, a Great Resource or a Giveaway? Do you have a Giveaway Linky or Recipe Carnival on your blog? Or maybe you would just like to share your Food or Health Blog/Website.

Add your link to my Food and Health Carnival.
All I ask for in return is for you to add my blog button above to your blog and/or a link to my website. Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living. Another idea is that you could add my link to your blog roll. Thank-You.

Add Your Gluten-Free and/or Healthy Living Blog to my Directory.
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This week I will share with you: Mom's Place Gluten Free Review and Giveaway, Giveaway Ends 6/12

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