We just returned from our annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo with Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in Nashville where we learned that the United Nations has proclaimed 2016 as “International Year of Pulses”. Dry beans, peas, lentils and chickpeas, also known as pulse crops, and are the edible seeds of plants in the …
We have the fondest memories of coming home to our Mom’s homemade soup. She always creates great, hearty soups from scratch, and once a week was soup night at our house. We’d come home from a long day of school followed by soccer practice, and we were always so hungry when we got home that …
As you probably know by now, long before the days when we became registered dietitians and personal trainers, we grew up in a very healthy household where our mom, who was basically a hippie (minus the drugs 🙂 ) cooked all of our mostly plant-based meals from scratch. There is one story we always …
As registered dietitians, personal trainers, and veggie lovers, people automatically assume we live on salads. Umm, NO! Although we love a good salad, we certainly don’t live on them! In fact, we tend to eat a lot more of veggies that we’ve mixed right into our meals (like in our Veggie Frittata Bites, Veggie & …