Easy Breakfast Ideas

How much time do you spend eating breakfast each day? Maybe 10 or 15 minutes, if you’re like most Americans. We’re usually in a hurry to get to work or school and we don’t want to make much of a fuss over breakfast.

Some people skip breakfast (not a good idea) and others eat breakfast in the car,…

Corn Flakes

The first modern and commercial cereal foods were created by the American Seventh-day Adventists. The Adventists formed the Western Health Reform Institute in the 1860s. The Institute was later renamed the Battle Creek Sanitarium after its location in Battle Creek, Michigan. The Adventists manufactured, promoted, and sold wholesome cereals.

Cereal or grain is a member of the grass plant…

Top 10 Foods That Are Good For Both Low-Fat and Low-Carb Diets

A lot of people use popular diets to lose weight and help them live healthier lifestyles. Two very popular options are low-carb and low-fat diets. All though these diets seem to be at odds with each other, they do have some common ground with healthy lo- carb vegetables and low-fat meats.

Here are my Top Ten Good For You…

Coffee

Expresso Machines In 1822, the first espresso machine was made in France. In 1933, Dr. Ernest Illy invented the first automatic espresso machine. However, the modern-day espresso machine was created by Italian Achilles Gaggia in 1946. Gaggia invented a high pressure espresso machine by using a spring powered lever system. The first pump driven espresso machine was produced in 1960…

How Can I Tell if a Recipe is Healthy?

Healthy Ingredients The healthiest ingredients are whole fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables, healthy oils like olive oil, walnut oil, grape seed oil, and rice bran oil. Nuts, legumes and soy are healthy ingredients, and so are whole grain breads, and pastas. Meats and poultry should be lean whenever possible, and low fat dairy…

What Moms and Kids Think of School Lunch

The Lunchables Lunchroom Monitor Survey was designed to determine how kids and moms feel about lunch time at school. Here are some of the statistics about the mothers’ thoughts:

When moms pack lunches, 47% of those surveyed include items based on their nutritional value, 26% base the items on their children’s requests, and…

How dogs perceive time and how they’re affected by our absence

Let’s start with the general consensus on how a dog perceives time. An article from Jane McGrath on the Discovery Communications’ site, HowStuffWorks.com points to research on animals, such as rodents, birds and primates, which shows “animals are ‘stuck in time’ because they can’t mentally ‘time travel’ backward and forward.” In other words, they can’t think…

Monosodium Glutamate

Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is used as a flavor enhancer in a variety of processed foods and restaurant items. MSG enhances your ability to taste a flavor called umami, which is the savory flavor found in protein-rich foods like fish, meats and milk.

Since MSG enhances the flavor of protein-rich foods, it may be beneficial for people who don’t have…

Culture of the Cocoa Bean

1500 BC-400 BC The Olmec Indians are believed to be the first to grow cocoa beans as a domestic crop. 250 to 900 CE The consumption of cocoa beans was restricted to the Mayan society’s elite, in the form of an unsweetened cocoa drink made from the ground beans. AD 600 Mayans migrate into northern regions of South America establishing…

Cheesecake and Cream Cheese

Cheesecake is believed to have originated in ancient Greece. Historians believe that cheesecake was served to the athletes during the first Olympic Games held in 776 B.C. However, cheese making can be traced back as far as 2,000 B.C., anthropologists have found cheese molds dating back to that period. Alan Davidson, author of the Oxford Companion…

How to Stock an Emergency Food Pantry

Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, major earthquakes and extreme blizzards could leave you trapped without electricity for a period of time. If the area in which you live is prone to any of these types of devastation, you should keep an emergency food pantry stocked with foods to keep you healthy until the disaster has passed. Emergency Food Pantry…