If you were to draw a circle and break it into a wheel with 24 segments representing hours in the day, how would you spend your time? I’ll get you started. On an average weekday, you might spend eight hours sleeping and nine hours working. If that’s the case, you have used up about 70
Time Influences Meal Preparation
Old Cookbooks Interesting, Not Always Accurate
As I sorted through my cookbook col lect ion recently, I came upon one I had purchased at a museum. An Army Wife’s Cookbookwas filled with recipes and home remedies. From the book, I learned how to take care of a gunpowder burn with linseed oil and lime. (I hope I never need to use
Food Diaries Can Promote Weight Loss
Keeping a food diary takes a little discipline but can be an eye-opening experience. People often eat much more than they realize. All you need is a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. Then you write down everything you eat, whether it includes M&M’s nabbed from a candy dish, crackers in front of
Don’t Shortchange Yourself On Sleep
As I lay wide awake in bed one night, watching my digital clock flip from one number to the next, I recalled the advice of sleep experts: if you do not fall asleep in about 20 minutes, get up and do something relaxing, such as reading. I didn’t feel like reading. I was thinking about
How Should You Feed A Cold?
Can you see the love floating out of the bowl?” my husband asked our 12-year-old daughter as he brought her a steaming bowl of chicken soup. “I’m kind of hungry. This is the best chicken soup ever,” she said as she propped herself up on our couch and took a sip of soup. She looked
Highly Caffeinated Beverages And Kids Not The Best Mix
Mom, I need coffee; coffee, I tell you!” my 12-year-old daughter announced dramatically as she wandered around the house early one morning. She was gathering her school supplies at 6:30 a.m. before leaving to attend a “super-early” orchestra rehearsal. I glanced at my husband and raised my eyebrows. “She has started making her own coffee
Weather May Influence TV Viewing And Health
Mom, you look like a lady from the olden times,” my seven-year-old daughter said. I wasn’t sure if she meant I looked old-fashioned or just plain old. I will stick with the first option. If I had been a lady from the distant olden days, however, I would not have been watching TV. I was
More Than One Way To Cook A Turkey
In cooking, sometimes experience is the best teacher. Christmas always serves as a good reminder because the stakes are high and the main course is big. The first time I cooked a turkey, I didn’t have a large enough pan. I squeezed the bird into the one that I had, so I ended up with
Make Baking A Learning Experience
How much sugar should I add?” I asked my seven-year- old daughter, who was my baking assistant. “The recipe says 34 cups,” she said. “Are you sure about that?” I felt a math lesson was in order. “Well, there’s a 3 and a 4 on the recipe,” she said. “Do you see the line between
As Usual Moderation Is The Key
Who can resist the aroma, texture and flavour of fresh-baked bread? Unfortunately, bread sometimes has been viewed as a villain in the world of weight management and weight loss. Some fad diets completely cut out grains and lots of nutrients in the process. Can we gain weight by regularly eating more calories from bread than
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
