Take this one week zero food waste challenge to make a serious impact on your carbon footprint—these practical tips will help you make healthy habits to go green today! You can truly honor Mother Earth by adopting more green tips in your kitchen and eating a kinder dietary pattern for the planet. In fact, your eating style can be one of the most powerful things you can do to reduce your planetary impacts, from greenhouse gas emissions and pollution to squandering precious resources like water. One big way you can celebrate the earth and make a significant cut to your environmental footprint is by reducing your food waste. You can take a one-week challenge and go zero waste in the...
Color is your friend when it comes to food photography—this recipe for Pistachio Turmeric Rice Power Bowl offers different colors and textures. It used to be that food photography was limited to trained professionals shooting for gourmet magazines in well-lit studios. Welcome to the new age of food photography! Just look at the amazing level of food photography exhibited by amateurs on Instagram and blogs! It may look super easy, but unfortunately it may not be as easy as it seems. There’s the lighting, the equipment, the props, the editing. But never fear, food photography can be conquered with a bit of practice and a few tricks of the trade. And you will reap the rewards, as good food photography...
With COVID-19, everything about life at home is magnified — your good eating habits and your crappy ones. You may see yourself using food as an escape, a reward, or a stress-relief tool. You may see patterns of emotional eating or restricting yourself. You may find yourself over-eating, under-eating, or just not knowing what to eat. Your relationship with food will often mirror your relationship to life. And let’s face it, life right now is strange and stressful. It’s natural, your eating will be too. Stop punishing yourself for what you ate or didn’t eat yesterday. Let go of the expectations you had about food pre-COVID-19. Your body knows that something is different now. Your nervous systems can feel the...
