Category: Cleveland

  • Ten Reasons it’s Better to Eat Happy than Diet

    Ten Reasons it’s Better to Eat Happy than Diet

    Eat Happy: Transform Your Health with Foods You Love is available   I recently put together this list, 10 reasons it’s better to Eat Happy than diet, for a presentation and thought it’d be fun to share.  Read below, and for more specifics on how to Eat Happy check this out! This was written for […]

  • Eat Happy: The Book is Almost Ready!

    Eat Happy: The Book is Almost Ready!

    I’m so excited to share the cover from my upcoming book – Eat Happy: Transform Your Health with Foods You Love!  This is my first book; part-cookbook and part-health tips that will transform your health in a delicious way. The book is written and in the final round of edits, and I just got some […]

  • Top Five Reasons to do a Whole Foods Cleanse

    Top Five Reasons to do a Whole Foods Cleanse

    Participating in a whole foods cleanse is a commitment to treating your body with attention, love and care for a period of time, and the benefits are many.  Read below to see my top 5 reasons to do a whole foods cleanse: Quick results:  Cleanses are ideal for people who want to feel better quickly, […]

  • Whole Foods Cleanse Details: February 2nd-13th, 2014

    Whole Foods Cleanse Details: February 2nd-13th, 2014

    I have led hundreds of individuals through various types of cleanses, and have always enjoyed hearing how wonderful they make people feel.  Results vary from predictable (“I feel so much better”) to sometimes astonishing (“I had no idea I could feel this way!”). So now I’m especially excited to offer my own customized cleanse program: […]

  • Time to Cleanse

    If you’re looking for a way to jump start your New Year, I have just the thing: a 5-day fruit and veggie juice cleanse. Historically speaking I’ve not been a huge fan of dietary programs that require drastic change.  I did my time with diets like Atkins and South Beach.  Those two messed me up […]

  • No Plan Meal Plan Give-away: extended to 10/29/11

    NPMP Give-away! No Plan Meal Plan helps you eat healthy and tasty meals with less time and stress.  It includes 4 recipes per week with shopping list and weekly planner.  Because I can always use great recipe ideas, email me your favorite fast and healthy recipe and get entered to win a free 3-month subscription!  Email me […]

  • Dinner help has arrived

    I’m super pumped, because my new dinner planning newsletter, No Plan Meal Plan has finally launched.  Check it out!  There are so many ways this can help you with your dinner-time routine; maybe you want to spend less time planning and be extra-efficient, perhaps you’re looking for fresh new dinner ideas, or maybe you’ve been […]

  • An open letter from Blue Pike Farm

    The picture of a barn raising,  a community effort to collectively help out a neighbor seems quaint and out of reach for those of us of a more urban persuasion. Well, the local food community is a community too and one of our own suffered a calamity this weekend in the form of a assault […]

  • Do you know where your food comes from?

    It’s increasingly rare these days to know where your food is coming from (China?), and almost unheard of to actually communicate with a farmer who puts his hands in the soil for you.  But the local food movement has forward momentum, and there are more and more opportunities to visit a local farmer’s market and/or join a CSA (community shared agriculture) program.  […]

  • Cleveland is fast becoming an urban farming hub

    Cleveland tops another list!  We were just ranked the second best city in the country for local food.  The study cited our 225 community gardens, 12 farmers markets, community-supported agriculture subscriptions (City Fresh, Blue Pike Farm and others), urban farms, and of course talented chefs and local food procurement (Fresh Fork and others).  What’s interesting about […]