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Healthy Pantry Recipes

March 10, 2020 by Jeanette Leave a Comment

healthy pantry recipes

This post contains 50+ Healthy Pantry Recipes for everyday meals. Cooking is made easy when you have a well stocked pantry. A well stocked pantry includes not only dry staple ingredients, but also fresh and frozen foods that keep well. A well-stocked pantry is useful for everyday living. Buying in bulk can save money and…

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Filed Under: Healthy Living, Meal Planning, Pantry Recipe, Recipes, Resources Tagged With: healthy pantry, pantry items, pantry recipes, shopping lists

Low Budget Cooking: Living on $6 a Day

July 10, 2017 by Kyle Chen 1 Comment

This is part 3 in a new series: College Cooking Crash Course. This series is written by Kyle, a student at Princeton University, and is designed for college students looking to learn the basics of making healthy, cost-effective, and delicious meals. Today, Kyle will be discussing how to cook and eat healthy on a low budget,…

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Filed Under: Breakfast, College Cooking, College Meals, Dinner, Healthy Living, lunch, main courses, Recipes Tagged With: college cooking, college cooking crash course, cost-effective, low-budget

A Healthy Well Balanced Life

April 5, 2017 by Jeanette Leave a Comment

How To Attain a Healthy Well Balanced Life - these eight elements are all important to achieving healthy well balan

In this post, I identify 8 elements of a Healthy Well Balanced Life. Each element contributes to a healthy self. Helping others is a critical element which, when combined with all the rest of the elements, leads to a meaningful and purposeful life. Sponsored by MegaFood. Throughout my adult years, I have tried to seek…

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Filed Under: Healthy Living Tagged With: healthy living, Living A Balanced Life

Living A Purposeful Life

January 4, 2017 by Jeanette 6 Comments

Living a Purposeful Life

Living a purposeful life can change the way you think, act and behave, and can have a huge impact on those around you. Setting meaningful goals and sticking to them will help direct how you spend your time and resources.  Are you wandering around aimlessly in your life or are you living a purposeful life? My…

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Filed Under: Faith, Healthy Living Tagged With: life with purpose, purpose driven life, purposeful life

8 Holiday Relaxation Tips

December 14, 2016 by Jeanette 5 Comments

8 Holiday Relaxation Tips - Reduce stress and enjoy the holidays this year

Try these eight Holiday Relaxation Tips to help reduce stress and enjoy the holidays this year. Taking care of your body, mind and spirit are key. Sponsored by MegaFood. Are you feeling stressed out about the holidays? I know I am. I can feel my anxiety level rising, tension building in my shoulders, and tightness…

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Filed Under: Healthy Living, Holidays Tagged With: holidays, MegaFood, relaxation tips, sponsored post, stress reduction

12 Healthy Summer Beauty Tips

July 27, 2016 by Jeanette 4 Comments

12 Healthy Summer Beauty Tips - follow these tips to refresh, rebalance and reenergize your body, mind and spirit this summer

Follow these 12 Healthy Summer Beauty Tips to refresh, rebalance and reenergize your body, mind, and spirit this summer. Sponsored by MegaFood. I always look forward to summer. It’s a great time to refresh, reenergize and rebalance my body, mind, and spirit. The pace of everyday life seems to slow down and I embrace a…

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Filed Under: Healthy Living Tagged With: healthy living, MegaFood, noads, sponsored, summer

Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month

June 24, 2016 by Jeanette 1 Comment

Uncovering the Truth about Alzheimer's Disease - learn the truths about Alzheimer's Disease to help #ENDALZ

Learn the truths about Alzheimer’s disease for Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month, including ten warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease and ten ways to love your brain. Sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association. June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month and I’m working with the Alzheimer’s Association to help uncover the truth about Alzheimer’s disease and other…

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Filed Under: Healthy Living Tagged With: ALZ.org, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, noads, sponsored post

Removing the Stigma of Mental Illness

June 7, 2016 by Jeanette 6 Comments

Removing the stigma of mental illness

This post is about removing the stigma of mental illness, an illness that affects 1 in 5 adults in America, and is the second leading cause of suicide in youths, ages 15-24. I am still in shock from losing a sister in Christ who took her own life just a few weeks ago. I had just seen…

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Filed Under: Healthy Living Tagged With: mental health, mental illness

Detecting Skin Cancer Early

May 16, 2016 by Jeanette 2 Comments

How To Spot Skin Cancer

This post is about checking your skin for the signs of skin cancer and melanoma, a preventable cancer that is highly treatable when spotted early. Sponsored by the American Academy of Dermatology. I’ve lost several friends to cancer and cooked for many cancer patients in our community over the past ten years, so when the American Academy of Dermatology asked me to…

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Filed Under: Cancer, Healthy Living Tagged With: American Academy of Dermatology, how to spot skin cancer, preventing cancer, skin cancer, skin cancer awareness month, skin cancer screening, sponsored post

Melanoma Skin Cancer Protection and Detection #MelanomaMonday

May 2, 2016 by Jeanette Leave a Comment

Melanoma Monday - Protect yourself and your family from skin cancer

This post is about Skin Cancer Prevention and Detection. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, but you can protect yourself from getting it, and it can be successfully treated if detected early. Read this post to learn more. Sponsored by the American Academy of Dermatology. Today is Melanoma Monday and I’m helping the American Academy of…

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Filed Under: Cancer, Healthy Living Tagged With: #MelanomaMonday, American Academy of Dermatology, cancer, melanoma, skin cancer

How To Find Happiness

April 10, 2016 by Jeanette 3 Comments

How To Find Happiness

It’s human nature to want to know how to find happiness. Take a look at 8 Factors That Contribute To Emotional and Mental Stability – these can help improve your outlook on life. This past week, we had a bonus session for our Daniel Plan study group on Happiness and Contentment. Did you know that…

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Filed Under: Faith, Healthy Living, The Daniel Plan Tagged With: Duke Study on Happiness, happiness, how to find happiness, The Daniel Plan

Rise Above Heart Failure

October 7, 2015 by Jeanette 8 Comments

Heartie - inspiration for preventing heart failure

Rise Above Heart Failure by making small lifestyle changes, including twelve small changes you can make today. Sponsored by the American Heart Association. Do you know what heart failure is? I have to be honest – I thought I did, but I quickly realized I really didn’t after doing a little bit of research. If you…

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Filed Under: Clean Eating, Healthy Living Tagged With: American Heart Association, exercise, heart failure, heart health, heart healthy diet

10 Healthy Living Tips for the Holidays

December 2, 2014 by Jeanette 34 Comments

Stress Reducing Recipe for the Holidays - try these tips to reduce stress and enjoy the holidays with loved ones

We’re in the thick of the holiday season and stress levels can get to an all time high. It’s supposed to be a time of celebration and enjoyment with family and friends, yet every year, I find it to be the most stressful time of the year. So, to help me and you try to…

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Filed Under: healthy choices, Healthy Living, Sponsored Post Tagged With: healthy living tips, Nourish snacks

Banana Oat Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie + 10 Wellness Life Hacks for Moms

September 11, 2014 by Jeanette 16 Comments

Perfect for breakfast! Protein Packed Banana Oat Chocolate Smoothie © Jeanette's Healthy Living

This Banana Oat Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie is one of the 10 Wellness Life Hacks for Moms that will get you on the right track. Sponsored by Silk. As a mom of four boys, three of whom are now in college, I’ve learned a lot over the years. Being a mom can be one of…

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Clean Eating, gluten-free, Healthy Living, Liquid/Soft Food Diet, New Year, smoothies, Special Diets, vegetarian Tagged With: health and wellness, healthy tips for moms, Silk, smoothie, soy milk, wellness life hacks, wellness tips

Live Laugh Love and Reebok #SkyScape

April 15, 2014 by Jeanette

Life Is Good - Happy Spring!

Sponsored by Reebok It’s officially Spring and it couldn’t have come any sooner here in the Northeast. We’re still having some chilly weather, but just knowing that it’s Spring has gotten me psyched about being outdoors a lot more. I love the sunshine…I love the daffodils and crocuses that start peeking out of the soil…I…

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Filed Under: healthy choices, Healthy Living Tagged With: fitness, Giveaway, inspiration, life is good, positive thinking, Reebok, Skyscape, sponsored post, Spring

8 Easy Ways To Add Flavor With Less Salt

April 9, 2014 by Jeanette 10 Comments

Tips for Cooking with Less Salt

Today, I’m sharing 8 Easy Ways to Add Flavor with Less Salt, all in the name of better health. If you watch cooking shows as much as I do, you know that good food requires just the right amount of seasoning. The judges almost always comment on a dish being under seasoned, too salty or…

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Filed Under: Clean Eating, healthy choices, Healthy Living, Resources Tagged With: heart healthy cooking, how to cook with less salt, how to use less salt, low sodium cooking

8 Mood Boosting Foods and Recipes

March 26, 2014 by Jeanette 15 Comments

Mood Boosting Recipes © Jeanette's Healthy Living

Get a jumpstart on Spring with these 8 Mood Boosting Foods and Recipes. Spring has FINALLY come!! It was an incredibly long winter and I have to be honest – we still have snow banks outside out house so it doesn’t really feel like Spring yet. Weather and sunlight definitely affect my mood, and keeping…

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Filed Under: healthy choices, Healthy Living, Resources Tagged With: mood boosting foods, mood boosting recipes

Let’s Move! Action Plan for Parents

February 28, 2014 by Jeanette 10 Comments

Lets Move Action Plan for Parents Infographic

Today, I’ve put together a Let’s Move Action Plan for Parents to help spread the word on how we as parents can help our children live healthier lives and reduce childhood obesity nationwide. This week, I had the amazing opportunity to join in on a conference call with the Executive Director of Let’s Move!, Sam Kaas,…

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Filed Under: healthy choices, Healthy Living, Resources Tagged With: childhood obesity, healthy living tips, infographic, Let's Move Campaign, Michelle Obama, Sam Kaas

6 Easy Tips for Improving Physical and Mental Health

February 18, 2014 by Jeanette 15 Comments

Try these six tips for healthy living for improving physical and mental health, including practical ideas on how to implement these tips for healthy living into everyday life. Sponsored by Aetna. Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been focusing hard on not only eating better, but feeling better, both physically and mentally. I’ve made…

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Filed Under: healthy choices, Healthy Living, Resources Tagged With: Aetna, healthy living, healthy living tips

Healthy Snack Recipes for Kids – Food for the Brain – Part 3

August 16, 2012 by Jeanette 12 Comments

Gluten/Dairy/Soy-Free "Clif" Granola Bars

This is the last in a series of posts on Food for the Brain. Part 1 covered foods that are good for brain health, including a fun round-up of Healthy Breakfast Recipes for Kids; Part 2 featured a round-up of creative Healthy Lunch Recipes for Kids. Today, in Part 3, we’re wrapping up our Food…

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Filed Under: healthy choices, Healthy Living, resources, Resources, snacks Tagged With: back to school, brain boosting foods, brain boosting snacks, brain health, children's health, food for the brain, good for the brain, healthy snacks, recipes for kids

Healthy Lunch Recipes for Kids – Food for the Brain – Part 2

August 14, 2012 by Jeanette 14 Comments

Chicken Tomato Avocado Quesadilla via Jeanette's Healthy Living

Today is Part 2 in a series of three posts featuring recipes that contain brain-boosting ingredients. In Part 1, we presented a round-up of healthy breakfast recipes for kids. Today, we present Part 2, which  focuses on healthy lunch recipes for kids.  Our last post in this series will feature healthy snack recipes for kids….

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Filed Under: healthy choices, Healthy Living, lunch, Resources, resources Tagged With: back to school lunch ideas, brain health, brain power, brain-boosing foods, brain-boosting recipes, children's health, food for brain health, food good for the brain, foods for nourishing the brain, healthy lunch for kids

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