Nickel and dime your way to health: ChooseMyPlate launches new grocery budgeting resource

In an economy which is struggling to balance itself, we all would like to get more bang for our buck - especially when we're at the grocery store. And on the surface, eating and buying healthy can appear much more expensive. Well, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (ChooseMyPlate.gov) this week announced a new tool in its resource [...]

Super Size Your C Today

  We all know Vitamin C, right? We run to the drug store for copious amounts of it, especially when cold season starts to manhandle us midweek and can’t afford to get sick. We know our orange juice is chock full of it. We know it’s in a lot of citrus fruits, which protects us [...]

Desert gardening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPxKO6JgHbI It's spring! Well, at least it's starting to feel a lot like it here in Arizona. We've had an unseasonably warm winter thus far. And so, my partner and I have decided to FINALLY break open the boxes of raised beds I had bought several years ago, shovel out some of our compost dirt [...]

Holiday deals starting Cyber Monday

Do you have a friend or loved one who makes a life(style) altering promise to themselves every Jan. 1, and has a hard time keeping it? It's the holidays, and we're all struggling with the cornucopia of sweet and fatty goodies laid out at every meeting, and the hectic schedules. Why stress about wrapping yet [...]