by Lauren Slayton | Nov 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Thanksgiving pushes many of our food buttons. This week my email will be filled with messages like the following: “What do I do about Thanksgiving? My happiest day is a giant bowl of mashed potatoes. I could eat my body weight in mashed potatoes given...
by Lauren Slayton | Nov 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
I was grumpy yesterday. I even emailed a friend and asked “ever plan an event and just want it over?” She put me at ease and said she often felt that way. There were the usual moving pieces, people backing out at the last minute and other neglected work I needed...
by Lauren Slayton | Nov 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
While I love a good gazpacho in the middle of the summer, this time of year seems like the real soup season. Soup is fantastic on a raw, wintry day but it’s also good for weight loss efforts. Barbara Rolls’ Volumetrics research showed that when we eat soup as part of...
by Lauren Slayton | Nov 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
This is a guest post by Melissa O’Shea aka Market Melissa It’s already November which means Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away. I never understood the logic behind using this day to gorge ourselves with lots of fatty food. Maybe it is because I am a...
by Lauren Slayton | Nov 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
A typical morning in the peaceful, easy Slayton household goes something like this. I bark requests (ok commands) while my children feign deafness and my husband tells me to calm down. Last week, as our departure time approached I looked at my shoeless son Myles and...
