In his award winning series Food Revolution, Jamie Oliver enters Huntington, West Virginia intent on curbing the city’s disease risk by improving health habits. His efforts illustrate that we need nutrition education in our schools– and more kitchen time with our kids at home!
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Jamie Oliver Revs Up Food Revolution
The T&T Challenge
Kim O’Donnel’s Tofu & Tempeh Challenge starts this week! Sign up and give these soy staples a try.
Break the Restaurant Chain
Cook This, Not That empowers consumers in the kitchen by providing recipes for healthier versions of chain restaurant staples. Whip up these low-fat versions of your favorite comfort foods this Monday.
Cajun Cuisine with Holly Clegg
Recipe guru Holly Clegg shares the culinary tradition of her home state and offers tips on having a healthful meatless Mardi Gras.
Tasty Techniques to Lower Salt
Two weeks ago the New England Journal of Medicine released a study that found cutting back on salt in our diet has the potential to prevent 32,000 strokes, 54,000 heart attacks and 60,000 cases of heart disease a year. This Valentine’s day the best thing you can do for your heart is cut the salt. But does that mean your candlelit dinner is destined to be bland?
Sustainable Dinner Party Kit
Take one part CSA menu, one part carpool transportation, throw in a screening of The Real Dirt on Farmer John and a gourd for table decoration, and what do you have? The Sustainable Dinner Party Kit!
Food Rules in Perfect Portions
Acclaimed author and food activist Michael Pollan invited us to simplify our diet when he coined the phrase “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants”. In his newest book, Food Rules, Pollan turns this advice into 64 bite-sized tips that encourage us to embrace traditional attitudes towards diet and dining.
Wholly Enjoy Healthy Food
In Cooking With Wholefoods, award winning author Nicola Graimes shows readers how to savor the flavors and health benefits of unrefined produce, seeds, beans and grains. Create your own whole food dishes this Monday and boost the nutritional value of your family meals!
Behind The Scenes With Kinzie
We sat down with food blogger and Meatless Monday video expert Dana Kinzie. She takes us backstage and offers cooking tips for the budding chef.
Eating Down the Fridge, One Week at a Time
The holidays, particularly Thanksgiving, are often a time of gluttony and overindulgence. This Monday, give your belly a break following last Thursday’s gorge. Take the next week off from grocery shopping to challenge your household to eat from ingredients already in your pantry, refrigerator and freezer.
10 Tips For Cooking Up A Meatless Thanksgiving
For many of us, Thanksgiving just wouldn’t be complete without a beautifully prepared turkey. But Thanksgiving brings together a variety of palettes, and you may find yourself sharing dinner with those who prefer a meatless Turkey Day. That’s why respected food writer Kim O’Donnel has created 10 tips for serving up a meatless (or veggie-full) Thanksgiving dinner.
The Legacy of Gourmet
As we opened the October 2009 issue of Gourmet magazine, an impossibly good coupon fell in our lap. Sadly, it wasn’t an epicurean deal of a lifetime, but a plea from a luxury-oriented print mag. struggling in a market saturated with free online cooking resources.
Jennifer McCain, Author
Jennifer McCain, respected cookbook author, offers in-depth tips on creating wholesome, child-friendly meals.
Tribeca’s Yummy Mummy
Catherine is a New York City foodie, entrepreneur and parent. Her kids have inspired her to create Tribeca Yummy Mummy; a blog full of recipes that are sure to please adults and children alike.
Julieanna Hever, RD
Julieanna Hever, registered dietitian and mother of two, offers tips on healthy eating for every age group.
Zucchinis Thrive As Rains Soak
Blogger extraordinaire Kerry Trueman opens her eyes to the virtues of the ubiquitous zucchini.
Who Will Be Tomorrow’s Julia Child?
Julia Child set the stage for a revolution in home cooking with her groundbreaking show The French Chef. But it’s the Internet and not television that is transforming cooking instruction!
Edible Aria Makes Food Sing
Writers of all stripes are using blogging to spread the word about Meatless Monday. One of our favorites is Edible Aria, a recipe and news blog that advocates sustainable eating.
Cauliflower: Choose New Hues
Cauliflower, like broccoli and cabbage, to which they’re related, is one of those powerhouse veggies that’s loaded with fiber and nutrients.
Slow Food Shifts Into High Gear
Once the work week gets underway, it seems that sitting down to a civilized meal becomes all but impossible for most of us. Slow Food USA is determined to reverse this trend.
Your Kitchen, Your Castle
Cooking in your kitchen versus eating out offers so many powerful benefits. It’s healthier, costs less, is more fun, brings the family together, and makes home feel, well, more like a home. Here at Meatless Monday we’re all about helping you start your week with the recipes and nutrition information you need to cook at home. This issue we highlight our users’ recipes (and video!) and provide tips on how you can make your kitchen a fortress of nutrition.
#1 Recipe Site Introduces Meatless
Epicurious, the world’s premiere recipe site, has teamed up with NutritionData, the top nutritional analysis website, to offer weekly meatless recipes every Monday.
Meatless Grilling
You don’t have to load up the grill with meat during this year’s backyard BBQ season. There are plenty of ways to enjoy a festive outdoor meal without the usual burgers and hotdogs.
Creative School Lunch Making
A parent who packs lunches for just one kid every day from kindergarten through seventh grade packs over 1,500 meals. That means 1,500 chances for your child to develop a taste for healthy meat-free foods.
Breakfast Is the Most Important Meal
Research shows that having something to eat before heading off to school or work helps with weight control, concentration, work performance, problem-solving ability, energy level, memory, mood and overall health.
