Caramel color is a food coloring added to popular items such as soft drinks, soy sauce, beer and others packaged food items to give it a brown color and enhance flavor. It is made by exposing “food grade carbohydrates” (corn syrup most often – sugar) to extremely high temps and adding 1 of a few
What is there to know about honey other than it’s made by bees and sticky? You’d be surprised! Honey creates hydrogen peroxide when the water from the honey combines with the salt from the skin – it is still used all over the world for medicinal purposes. Cleopatra took regular honey baths to maintain her
What started as a ” I wonder if I can do it” challenge has turned into a week of discovery…..sometimes it was easy and other times very difficult. Being aware (very aware) of food choices has brought a lot of insights to me. I like challenges! In life, in work, in play. I knew this about
Better late than never – Been working TOO hard for a Friday and just getting a chance to post about Day 4, which was yesterday. It was the best day yet – I had enough snacks and my sweet husband had dinner ready when I got home! Check back in tomorrow to hear about Day
I need to get back on after falling off last night!! Day 3 was going pretty good until I got home, there was only chicken in the fridge, with NOTHING, I mean nothing to go with it, and I was meeting friends at a Mexican restaurant later……The plan was to eat at home before meeting
So I planned better for Day 2! A grocery store run and dinner with leftovers definitely helped Day 2 go smoother. Since I didn’t have to think about what I was going to eat, I started to notice how I was feeling. I kept thinking I was hungry because I didn’t “feel full”. As
Harder than I thought!! Breakfast was OK, but lunch out was HARD! I went to The Fresh Market planning to get a salad, but what did I find? Fresh, packaged salads that had labels 3 inches long! How is that possible?!?! Well, there were crasins with 10 ingredients, coated nuts with 6+ ingredients and they
A challenge for a week! I’m starting today – who is with me? It’s a challenge to only eat AND drink food & liquids with NO LABEL! What does that mean? If you have to read a label, box, package, etc to know what is in the item you are about to consume, don’t eat
Foodie (noun \ˈfü-dē\): a person with a particular interest in food. As annoying as that word is, nothing describes my love of all things edible better than that definition. Buying food, cooking food, talking about food, restaurants, restaurants and more restaurants…the list of my favorite food activities goes on and on. My taste buds are
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