Restaurant Review: The Green Gourmet
October 9th, 2011I have been meaning to try out The Green Gourmet for several months and I finally got the chance tonight! They are an all organic and natural foods market and café, and buy from local farmers as much as possible. My friend Melissa and her family were in town for a couple of nights, and we decided to check out The Green Gourmet for dinner. Walking in you see the display case on the right and a couple of chalk boards with juice, smoothie, and information on specials. Juice Bar happy hour is 3-5pm, noted! (more…)
Restaurant Review: Efes Bistro – Fish & Grill House
September 24th, 2011My husband and I decided to try a new restaurant for our Friday night dinner out. We spotted Efes Bistro using an App on his Droid and decided to check it out. We were greeted warmly by the hostess who asked if we had reservations. Clearly, they are busy on a Friday night. We were able to get a cozy booth in the back and noticed we were quite a bit younger than all of the other clientele. They seem to have loyal customers so that is always a good sign. (more…)
Restaurant Review: DIG Delray
September 18th, 2011My husband and I went to DIG for my birthday dinner. I love anything local and organic so DIG, which stands for “Doing It Green” is my kind of place.
We began with the seared sea scallop appetizer, I did not take a picture but it was two giant sea scallops on a bed of spinach with roasted tomatoes on the side. After discovering my newfound love for scallops, I knew I had to try restaurant prepared scallops again and these were cooked perfectly! (more…)
Product Review: All Natural And Vegan Arbonne
September 18th, 2011I recently got introduced to Arbonne products and received a wonderful assortment of samples from Lisa Kaminski.
“Arbonne’s health-oriented products are pure, safe, and beneficial formulated without parabens, phthalates, propylene glycol, mineral oil, PABA, petrolatum, paraffin, diethanolamine, and are 100% vegan.” (more…)
Juicing With My Bestie
August 25th, 2011My best friend, Tracy, from high school came to visit over the weekend! She has successfully been losing weight with dietary changes which include juicing daily. She was inspired by the film, Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead that helped Joe Cross lose weight and get off all his medications in 60 days. This movie is super inspiring! Check it out, if you have not seen it yet. (more…)
Make Your Vote Count At The Grocery Store
June 21st, 2011Have you ever considered that each item you put into your cart and purchase counts as one vote? So you may vote several times in one trip to the grocery store.
Now take a look at your cart and what do you see? (more…)
USDA Food Pyramid Traded in for Food Plate
June 2nd, 2011Today, the USDA phased out the USDA Food Pyramid in exchange for a Food Plate, called My Plate. They also created a new website in support of this initiative, http://www.choosemyplate.gov/. This will replace the MyPyramid.gov website that was developed for the USDA Food Pyramid of 2005. This new design is meant to be more straight forward and (more…)
