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Focus on Food: Avocado

laurel — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:08:27 +0000

Avocados are my favorite food hands down. I just can’t get enough of them. Especially as I began to eat a primarily vegetarian/vegan diet over the past two years, avocados became a major part of my diet. I’ve used them in dozens of recipes, and they have a permanent spot on my grocery list. Read [...]

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Focus on Food: Coconut

laurel — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:26:57 +0000

I’m focusing on coconut this week, an extremely versatile fruit/nut that I’m using more and more in my cooking. Read on! Fun facts: Coconut palm trees are a distant relative to grasses and are therefore very tolerant of high salt environments. This is why you always see coconut trees growing near the ocean! In Sanskrit, [...]

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Focus on Food: Blackberries

laurel — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:36:12 +0000

It’s Monday and today is the first in a new weekly blog post series called “Focus on Food” here at Laurel on Health Food. Each week on Monday I’ll feature one healthy whole food with fun facts, some nutritional knowledge, and some tips for how to eat them. I hope you enjoy it! Today’s feature: [...]

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Joy Bauer’s Food Cures

laurel — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:44:37 +0000

Last week I had the amazing opportunity to attend a luncheon celebrating the re-release of NYT best-selling author and Today Show nutritionist Joy Bauer‘s book Food Cures here in NYC. The luncheon took place at Nio’s, a chic restaurant and wine bar nestled inside The Muse Hotel on 46th Street. Joy was gracious and beautiful, [...]

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Day 4: Raw Food Blogathon

laurel — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:01:50 +0000

Thursdays are my busiest day of the week, but I’m hanging in there with lots of sweet treats! At lunch I swung by my favorite health food store on the Upper West Side called The Health Nuts. They have tons of specialty items (like my favorite frozen young coconut meat), a huge selection of supplements, [...]

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Raw Kiwi Applesauce

laurel — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:26:28 +0000

Summer’s here and I’ve been eating more salads and raw foods to stay cool. I love all the bright colors and the light and fresh feeling you get when eating raw. Today I made some applesauce on the fly, and it turned out so good that I think this recipe might become my staple summer [...]

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Crofter’s Superfruit Giveaway

laurel — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:55:20 +0000

The nice peeps over at Crofter’s Organic sent me some coupons to try their organic Superfruit spreads, and they’re definitely better than your average jelly. I tried the South America Superfruit spread (made with Maqui berries, passionfruits, red grapes, and morello cherries) and the Superfruit Just Fruit spread (made with red grapes, morello cherries, açai [...]

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Texas Rio Star Grapefruit Giveaway

laurel — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:53:17 +0000

I loooove grapefruits and grapefruit juice. Full of lycopene, vitamin C, and fiber, they’re a refreshing addition to a salad, like my Citrus Avocado Salad, and the tartness makes the juice a perfect cocktail mixer. My favorite alcoholic drink is fresh grapefruit juice with silver tequila and a slice of lime. Slurp! If you love [...]

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7 Days of Healthy Desserts

laurel — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:50:15 +0000

Last week I held my second blogging marathon. It was 7 straight days of healthy desserts made at home, and I had a lot of fun dreaming up the recipes. My boyfriend was also very happy to get to enjoy all the tasty leftovers I had around the house! I hope you enjoy all my [...]

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Day 7: Healthy Desserts

laurel — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:20:47 +0000

Whole Foods had these gorgeous fresh blackberries on sale yesterday, so I picked up two packs and have been snacking on them all day. When I was out the store I also found some yogurt made from cultured coconut milk. Since I adore coconut milk ice cream, I thought I’d give it a try. I [...]

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