Eating For Health

Anyone who has been to the grocery store lately, knows the price of food is getting higher and higher.   How can you save some money when grocery shopping while still eating healthy?   WebMD has a good article, Cheap, Healthy Foods .   What are some foods they recommend?    Beans/Lentils – These are cheap and they do provide some good nutrition including protein and fiber.   Beans are low in fat and add the minerals iron and potassium to your diet.   Serve them over some rice, add beans like black beans or pinto beans to a salad, enjoy a 3-bean salad, or enjoy them as a side dish.   My husband buys a canned bean medley by Delallo that we like as a side dish. Eggs – these have gone up in price but are still a bargain and an excellent source of nutrition.   Each egg not only provides 6 grams of protein, but the highest quality food protein.   So many Americans lack vitamin D in their diet and an easy way to add some D is eggs.   Th...

Getty Images/TODAY Introduction:   In the nutrition class I teach, students were asked to write a blog post on a nutrition topic.   One of those students, Sophia Cable, wrote an interesting blog post on whole grains.   Students were also asked to conduct some of their own “research” on their nutrition topic and that research is shared in her post.     I welcome Sophia Cable as a guest author for this week’s blog post. Grains are commonly thought of as bread, rice, pasta, and oats.   Many people think that they should not be eating bread daily, or that they should never eat a plate of spaghetti.   This is not true. Foods like this can be very healthy and beneficial to incorporate into your diet.   The only thing is to make sure to choose the healthier options.   You may be asking how can bread or pasta ever be healthy?   The answer is simpler than you would think…choose whole grains.  To gather a little more information abo...