Have you checked the price of almond butter lately? The price is more than some are willing to pay. Why pay ten to twenty dollars for an eight ounce jar of almond butter, when you can make your own? You can buy almonds in bulk for a reasonable price and make your own almond butter for much less than it costs to buy in the store. If you have a food processor, you can make … [Read more...] about How To Make Almond Butter Using a Food Processor
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Health Facts About Cashews
I usually eat only a few select nuts and seeds and cashews never made the list, but today I include cashews in the list of nuts and seeds I eat. I avoided cashews, mainly because I was afraid of eating too much fat, but the cashew is lower in fat than most nuts. I added cashews to my diet after preparing the egg-less egg salad. I did a little research on cashews and … [Read more...] about Health Facts About Cashews
Avoid Packing on the Pounds this Holiday Season
The holiday season is upon us. Thanksgiving is within a few weeks and Christmas follows. It is a tradition to celebrate the holiday season with food. Enjoying good food, family and fun is one thing that everyone has in common during the holiday season. When I worked outside my home, I use to love this time of the year. I loved it because there would be lots of different foods … [Read more...] about Avoid Packing on the Pounds this Holiday Season
Five Delicious Foods with Plant Sterols
Plant sterols have been in the news a great deal lately, heralded for their cholesterol-lowering properties. Plant sterols (also called phytosterols), are phytochemicals that naturally occur in plants and work by partially blocking the absorption of “bad” or LDL cholesterol. There are about 44 sterols known to exist in plants. The recommended amount of plant sterols is … [Read more...] about Five Delicious Foods with Plant Sterols