Healthy Living How To

Vanessa Rae Romero

Happy International Bacon Day!

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Today is perhaps the most delicious holiday to be celebrated, International Bacon Day! Not much is required, other than cooking, eating and enjoying bacon. Some of us celebrate this holiday daily (or at least several times a week), but if you need an excuse to enjoy some thick-cut smoky and salty bacon, today is the… [Continue Reading]

The Best Thing to Come From Texas

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I’m baaaaack! I missed you all, my faithful readers. It’s been a whirlwind these past two weeks. We have effectively downsized and moved from the suburbs to the city. A 10 year dream has come to fruition and everything we own now fits within the confines of a 1,200 square feet condo in Minneapolis. I… [Continue Reading]

The Case of the Mystery Pears

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I recently spotted these adorable pears at our local natural foods co-op and knew I had to snatch up a few. They were labeled organic Conference Pears. At less than 2 oz. a pear, they are the size of a large strawberry. I tried doing some research on this variety, but came up with very limited… [Continue Reading]

Healthy Homemade Fajita Seasoning

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At the beginning of the summer my husband made a career move. This has been the biggest blessing for our family and a major change in our lifestyle. Prior to this change, each day, Tom faced a long commute, an hour or longer in traffic one-way. He was leaving the house before 6am and not… [Continue Reading]

Easy Vitamix BBQ Sauce {low-carb, low-sugar}

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Barbecue ribs are quite possibly my son B’s favorite food. It is super easy to make the sauce and even easier to make the ribs using the low and slow oven method. Plus the house smells amazing all afternoon. I did a little tweaking to my healthy BBQ Sauce recipe and today’s version is new… [Continue Reading]

Food is Medicine: 57 Health Problems Reversed

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Have you reversed any health problems by changing your diet? This was a question I posed to my Healthy Living How To Facebook Fans this week. The response was overwhelming! Honest to God, I read each one and got overcome with emotion. It never ceases to amaze me the power of the fork. Whether that… [Continue Reading]

Adrenal Fatigue: What to do when you just can’t do it anymore!

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The body’s reaction to stress is called the “stress response”. Without this finely tuned process, we would not be able to get through a day. However, our modern-day high-tech, fast-paced lifestyles have elevated stress to epidemic levels. Our lives have become littered with psychological, physical, nutritional and environmental stressors, which in turn assault our body… [Continue Reading]

Sunday Snapshots: Here Kitty Kitty!

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In the corner of our dining room, in front of a large window, is my setup for taking food photos for Healthy Living How To. The setup is nothing fancy, it’s just an old Ikea Lack table, with a piece of barn wood on top. Today, I caught our kitty Kirby, lounging on the table… [Continue Reading]

Healthy Simple Soda

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According to a new study published in the journal Nutrition, the lion’s share of calories, in American adult and adolescent diets, comes from — soda. Yes soda. Source Let’s take a closer look at Americans’ beverage of choice. An average 12 oz. can of soda has 150 empty calories. Empty, because all of those calories, derived from sugar,… [Continue Reading]