This Whole Grain has More Than 50 Shades
Also known as: Maybe a little “wild” sometimes, but she’s still simply Rice
Likes: The scenery… wherever she’s planted, from mountains to valleys around the world
Dislikes: Weeds and bugs, processing that strips away her best nutrients
Hobbies: Soaking in the fields and gracing weddings as a symbol
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He Can Warm Up You and Your Diet
He’s hot and maybe a little spicy, and he wants to help warm you up on a cold fall day. He’s Chili, and his one-dish goodness can be a wholesome and nutritious choice for lazy weekends or busy weeknights, whatever your health goals may be. It’s all in how he’s put together.
There’s great debate about Chili’s origins and true ingredients. He’s warmed explorers, sustained cattle drivers, and kept family bellies full
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Lose Weight While You Celebrate Taco Day
Taco Day is October 4th, and you’ve probably noticed that we here at Healthy Dining always like a good food celebration! So in the spirit of this legendary and oh-so-delicious food, we’ve put together a Food Friendzy Fiesta this week that is all about Taco.
He’s been around in his most basic form as long as anyone can remember, but
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3 Easy and Healthy Ways to Enjoy Pear
Also known as: “Gift of the Gods”—per Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey
Likes: The temperate Pacific Northwest and similar locales worldwide
Dislikes: Being eaten before he’s really ripe… he is not at his best when he’s green and crunchy
Hobbies: Sitting for portraits (Have you seen all the paintings he’s in?)
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6 Recipes to Tempt the Fig Fanatic
Also known as: Heaven on earth to those who love them
Likes: Warm summer sun, cool winter nights, and Fig wasps
Dislikes: Over handling…be gentle, please!
Hobbies: Sweetening up your diet
Find Her: Paired with creamy cheese, baked in desserts, topping savory meats, and adorning kitchen table fruit bowls
Fig is back in
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How Honey Can Sweeten Your Diet
Also known as: Would a sweetener by any other name taste as sweet?
Likes: Clover, orange blossom, blueberry, buckwheat, and many other aromatic plants.
Dislikes: Her risk to babies. She and babies aren’t a good fit due to the risk of botulism and babies’ inability to fight off the bacteria.
Hobbies: Sweetening family gatherings and helping to more...
This Ingredient Is Nutritious and Budget-Friendly
September is Whole Grains Month, and we’re throwing a big delicious party in their honor! Honestly, we are HUGE fans of these hard working little ingredients. Forget Bieber Fever, we’re burning for bulgur, fired up about farro, melting for millet, and screaming for spelt. Go ahead and laugh; we’re kind of nerdy that way. This is Food Friendzy, after
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This Fruit Could Be Your Diet’s Best Friend
Also known as: Melon or varietal names, like Pixie, Little Baby Flower, Yellow Doll, Crimson Sweet, Extazy
Likes: Summer, summer and summer
Dislikes: The sun is shining and everyone is on vacation and happy, what’s there to dislike?
Hobbies: Cooling and hydrating
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Our Pal Panini
4 Steps to One Hot and Healthy Panini
Also Known As: Sandwich
Likes: A nice hot press
Dislikes: Sticking to the press
Hobbies: Getting wild with ingredients
Find Him: On restaurant menus and kitchens from here to Italy
Panini is one HOT food, in all the best ways. We’re drooling just thinking about
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How do you use Fennel?
Also known as: Often confused with her cousins, Dill and Anise
Likes: A good dry heat any day of the week
Dislikes: Being taken for granted
Hobbies: Dabbling in herbal healing
Find Her: Not as often as she’d like in the U.S.,
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3 Reasons to Share the Papaya
Also known as: Papaw, fruta bomba
Likes: Warm and tropical locales
Dislikes: Soggy roots and the cold – definitely unacceptable!
Hobbies: Pairing with savory friends to make taste buds dance
Find her: Adorning fruit salads, flavoring and tenderizing meats, adding a taste of the sunny tropics to smoothies
She is vibrantly
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3 Reasons to Give Lasagna Another Chance
Also known as: Delicious
Likes: Big family tables
Dislikes: Being in the diet dog house
Hobbies: Bringing people together
Find him: Gracing tables large and small from restaurants to backyard patios
Lasagna wants you back. He understands the pressures you’ve been under to give up the carbs, cut back on calories, and
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3 Reasons Bison is back
Also known as: Buffalo or American Buffalo
Likes: Roaming plains, kitchens and menus
Dislikes: The “gamey” stereotype
Hobbies: One-upping the Beef competition with added nutrition and lower fat and calories
Find him: Roasted, grilled, ground and
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7 Grilled Foods You’ll Never Want to Give Up
Grilling is big business in our country, especially this time of year. The weather is warmer, the days are longer, fresh produce is practically overflowing from markets and gardens, and grills coast to coast are heating up. Bring on that smoky goodness!
In honor of grilling season, we’ve invited some new faces and old friends into Food Friendzy today. These ingredients aren’t
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