Healthy Eating Tips for Work at Homers and Telecommuters - Author: Cathy Lindsay

It can be hard to eat healthy foods when there is a McDonald’s or an Arby’s on every street corner. It can be even more difficult for those who work from home. Telecommuters have flexible hours, unpredictable work schedules, and do not always have the time to make the best food. So it is understandable why so many work-at-homers are interested in fast, easy ways to make delicious, nutritious, and healthy foods. There are a few different strategies that the work at homer and the telecommuter can employ to make sure that he/she has lots of easy, healthy foods on hand.
The first step to getting healthy is purging your environment of all things unhealthy. This includes just about anything that is fried, dunked, dipped, or battered, everything that uses high-fructose corn syrup, and the Itos food group (Fritos, Doritos, Cheetos, etc.). It is easy to leave these foods stashed in convenient places around the house, especially in and around the work area. It has all got to go. Everything. It might hurt a little at first, but nothing kills junk food cravings like giving up junk food.
Now that all of the unhealthy food has been trashed, it is time to restock the pantry. Fresh foods are the staple of any healthy diet. Normally, fresh foods line the perimeter of a grocery store, with offerings such as fruits and veggies, fresh meat, cheese, milk, eggs, and the like. This is where the majority of shopping time and resources should be spent. Fresh food has more vitamins, nutrients, and flavor, and is also digested and processed much more easily than processed or packaged foods. Journeys to the center aisles of the store should be limited, and items should be listed to avoid being lured by the bright packaging and empty promises of the happiness characteristic of today’s food marketing. The best foods found in the center aisles include brown rice and flour, beans and nuts, and certain canned foods (ones not too high in sodium). (A word on brown Vs. white foods: Any time a food like rice or flour is offered in brown and white, it is because one has been “enriched” or “processed”. “Enriched” and white together mean bleached. If you would never drink laundry supplies, please avoid white flour and rice.)
Okay, so now that the pantry is chock full of delicious, healthy foods, it is time to eat! But who has time to cook a full meal, three times a day?! Not somebody who has a flexible or unpredictable schedule. A good way to provide some structure to a new eating routine is to cook in bulk. One day a week, make three oversized entrees. That way all the leftovers can be individually frozen, reheated, and eaten on the spur of the moment. Replacing the old snack foods for something natural, with lots of complex carbs like carrots or beans is a fast track for healthy success. These new strategies should help reduce the desire to default back to the –Itos food group, and help maintain a new happy and healthy lifestyle.

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Birthday Cake for a Dog-Recipe

I went to Raisin's, my "canine" nephew, 11th birthday and this is the cake that my sister-in-law had made for him. It contains all wholesome ingredients and is actually healthy. If you would like to read more about his birthday you can go to my other blog, Blogger Rules. 2 c water 1/4 c mashed banana 1/8 t vanilla 1 egg 2 T honey 3 cups whole wheat flour 1/2 t baking powder Frosting is cream cheese w/ a little milk Preheat oven to 350 degrees In bowl, mix water, banana, vanilla, egg and honey. Mix thoroughly. Add flour, baking powder. Pour into 8" round baking pan.....bake for 45 min.

An Idea For A Muffin Loaf-Cheap and Delicious

Buy two pouches of any two flavors of muffin mixes that you like. It doesn't matter what brand that you buy. I usually buy the Martha White or the store brand. Preheat oven to the temperature in the directions on the pouch.Grease a loaf pan with butter or cooking spray, whichever you prefer.Mix the two flavors separtely from each other according to the package directions.Now, pick up a muffin batter in each hand and pour them into the pan, side by side, at the same time. Bake for approximately 30 minutes. There you have it, a double flavor muffin loaf!Enjoy!

Peanut butter & jelly, hot dogs, red beans and ice cream cones.

I sat down at my dining room table in front of the window so that the cool breeze would hit the back of my neck. It has been hot and humid in my part of the world and the rain we had earlier had made the temperature drop along with the humidity. I was thinking about how wonderful that breeze felt when I heard children outside. I looked at the clock and it read 10:20 pm. I was thinking that it had to be my son's fiance and her children. They came in and the kids said that they were hungry so I made them peanut butter and jelly. Then I remembered that I had hot dogs. My son and his girl had red beans and hotdogs with chili powder mixed in. Three of the five children (the youngest is 14 months and he was sleeping) had p & j and a hotdog. They all had chocolate milk and to top it off they had chocolate ice cream cones (one of them had a fudge bar). I forgot to mention that my daughter-in-law lives right down the street with her mom and stepdad. The youngest child has been staying with me because there isn't much room where they live. At present her mom is the only one that has a job. Her and my son can not find a job and her stepdad just lost his. (even I am unemployed) She tried to get help from the state and denied her because she wouldn't go after my son for child support. She told them that they were together and why would she do that. Plus, he doesn't have a job. He tried to get help and got denied for the same reason. It is awful that the state cares more about trying to collect child support than they do about hungry children. I do help them as much as I can but it isn't easy. There are too many people in this same situation right now and my heart breaks for each and every one of them. Children are a blessing from God and they bring such joy into our lives. A child should not go hungry. No one in America should go hungry.