Healthy Living How To

Vanessa Rae Romero

Breakfast Sausage Recipe

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Who needs the convenience of prepackaged breakfast sausage full of unhealthy ingredients, when making your own is not only easy but by far healthier. Your typical packaged breakfast sausage product is going to have ingredients like sodium lactate, sodium phosphate, monosodium glutamate, sodium diacetate along with dextrose and maltodextrin. These unpronounceable words are code for… [Continue Reading]

Sunday Snapshots: Lake Calhoun

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Today’s episode of Sunday Snapshots should actually be titled Saturday Snapshots as the photos were taken on our adventures yesterday. We combined our weekly grocery shopping trip with our weekend walk and headed over to Lake Calhoun. In the car ride to the lake, we listened to Jimmy Moore and Dr. Christopher Gardner discuss what’s… [Continue Reading]

Avocado Peach Salsa

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If you are tired of boring eggs for breakfast, give today’s healthy recipe, Avocado Peach Salsa, a try. Not only is it amazing atop of a pile of scrambled eggs, it goes well with grilled chicken thighs. And, believe it or not, I even had it with a sesame crusted tuna steak and it paired quite… [Continue Reading]

Death by Dark Chocolate Pudding

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Here’s a fun fact you can share with your friends and family while serving them today’s healthy recipe for Death by Dark Chocolate Pudding. One bite and you will think you’ve died and gone to chocolate heaven.  “The first death by chocolate occurred in the 17th Century in Mexico. The people were so addicted to… [Continue Reading]

Sunday Snapshots: Lebanon Hills

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This morning, Tom and I headed to a local park to do some hiking Minnesota style. This means in the woods and not on a mountain. Today we explored some new trails at Lebanon Hills Regional Park. I would love to bring my camera along on some of our hikes as the scenery is beautiful,… [Continue Reading]

Easy Keto Breakfast Biscuit

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Last weekend, my husband and I went on a long walk, about eight miles or so. Early on in our trek, we came upon some litter on the walking path, a McDonald’s bag and a wrapper for a biscuit breakfast. In my junk food eating days, I loved me a biscuit with egg & bcon… [Continue Reading]

My Food Philosophy

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I recently received some push back and “dislikes” on the Healthy Living How To Facebook Page after extolling the “healthiness” of bacon. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, within the framework of my food philosophy, bacon is very much a healthy food choice. This got me to thinking, while I haven’t exactly hidden the fact I live a low-carb… [Continue Reading]

How To Oven-Bake Bacon

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After a flurry of posts on the Healthy Living How To Facebook Page on Friday, it became painfully apparent I have been making bacon all wrong. In other words, I am one of the few who still make bacon a few slices at a time on the stove in a skillet. Silly me. After an informal… [Continue Reading]

“Spaghetti” with Beef Sauce

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A few weeks back, I started a series on how to eat your favorite foods and still fit into your skinny jeans. The first post in the series featured my favorite Mexican food. A simple recipe for Beefy Mexi “Cauli” Rice, where I substituted the carbohydrate dense rice, with nutrient dense cauliflower. This week we… [Continue Reading]