We will get you your inspired healthy hedonism food tips for your trips, but first things first. What the heck do we mean by “healthy hedonism”? Skya defined it beautifully in our last post, “What is healthy hedonism?” Basically, it’s the antidote to the popular lie that we have to give up pleasure to be healthy. […]
Part 2: Is Social Pressure Keeping You Sick? How to Work, Play and up Your Food Game In an Age of Chronic Illness
Do you feel like you have to choose between having a social life and having your health? You don’t. You can have it all! Let’s be real. We are social creatures. It’s in our DNA to want to share food and food culture with each other. However, what happens when whole societies’ ways of eating are […]
Let’s Take the FAD out of FOOD
What are you? Paleo? Vegetarian? Vegan? Raw vegan? South Beach? Whole 30? Atkins? Eco-Atkins? Weight Watchers? Jenny Craig? DASH? Mediterranean? Pescaterian? Flexitarian? Macrobiotic? Probiotic? Presbyterian? Muslim? Jewish? Mormon? Catholic? Buddhist? Hindu? Unitarian? Atheist? Agnostic? New age? Spiritual but not religious? Which are there more of? World religions or diet fads? We’re guessing diet fads. If you’re […]
Time Saving Kitchen Tips: Garlic & Ginger on Demand!
Since we fancy ourselves “healthy hedonists” here at Spoonful, our food must give us pleasure, meaning it must taste amazing and make us feel good long after we eat it (energy goes up, not down). Fresh garlic and ginger are not only medicinal foods (for example), but they taste badass! However, despite their greatness, we each […]
Podcast: How Is Your Emotional Hygiene?
We brush our teeth and wash our hands, but do we clean out our emotions and tend to our emotional needs? Or do we neglect them, letting them pile up and get stinky like week-old dishes or mounds of mildewy laundry? Which causes more damage to yourself and loved ones, stinky armpits or a stinky disposition? […]
What Really Causes Belly Fat? Reasons for weight gain you may not know about and what you can do to change it.
Toward the end of high school, I started putting on weight. Because most of my family was overweight, I was terrified that I was genetically predestined to be obese. So, I would read teen magazines to figure out how to lose weight and get rid of belly fat. The best advice they had […]
Fee Fi Faux Pho
Okay, so, Skya’s fiancé Michael asked what I was making for dinner and I said, “faux pho,” and he said, “You mean fee fi faux pho?” And I said, “Ha, that’s it. That’s what I’m going to have to call the blog post!” and Fee Fi Faux Pho was born. In case you don’t get […]
What’s so seductive about this tropical cranberry sauce?
Traci here. When I was a kid, I wouldn’t even try the canned cranberry sauce because I was convinced that anything holding the shape of the can was suspect. I wasn’t health-conscious at the time. Not even close. It was just something about the jiggle and the ridges that made me squirm inside. It wasn’t tempting […]