Foodtrainers’ Blog
We spoke to Domino about dry January
I spoke with Domino about doing a dry January aka "dry-uary". A little insight on how our Squeezers feel sans alcohol and what to do when a Cabernet craving hits. Any of you bypassing the booze this month? Or, have you in the past? What works when you want a cocktail...
Don’t Let Your Food Turn Into A ‘Bomb Cyclone’: Silky Zucchini Soup Recipe
Happy new year! And if you’re an east coaster, happy “bomb cyclone” snow day! But please don’t let your food turn into a bomb, or a cyclone, and especially not a bomb cyclone. Every time there is any sort of weather emergency, Lauren and I get lots of email requests...
The Wellness Gifts You’ve Been Waiting For
The holiday season, parties and stressors are officially here. Your Foodtrainers’ elves have been hard at work tasting and testing the latest and greatest (and not so greatest) wellness goodies. Whether you need a hostess, Hanukah or Secret Santa something, whoever...
Don’t believe the “whole grain”, high fiber cereal hype
As an R.D., there are certain words on repeat in my office: carbs, protein, fat, greens, probiotics. Another one on this list is fiber. Most of us in the nutrition field can agree fiber is a good thing. Fiber is beneficial for your heart, it’s also important for...
I’m so happy I was pregnant and had young children before Instagram
A close friend of mine is a psychiatrist (I’ll refer to her as M.D.) but she’s too professional to ever discuss her sessions. I do wonder if she’s encountering anything like:M.D: Take me back to where this all startedPatient: Well, l I was in the...
I’m the opposite of Shonda Rimes.
I read Shonda Rimes’ The Year of Yes when it first came out. It made the bookshelf cut, reserved for books that moved me (I say YES to purging, whenever possible). As much as I related to it at the time, I must’ve forgotten the key messages. When Carolyn suggested...
Your Thanksgiving Survival Kit
Theoretically, Thanksgiving is this beautiful holiday full of feasting and togetherness. Inevitably, it ends up feeling like a little too much of everything. We’ve assembled our Thanksgiving Survival Kit with a “secret weapon” for every issue you will encounter. Plus,...
Bad moms and wine moms
There’s a bit of a brouhaha over the recent Bad Mom’s Christmas movie. I haven’t seen the movie, though I watched the first one. The issue being debated is this concept of a “wine mom” and the coupling of motherhood and alcohol. Is this an innocuous combination? Or...
We hate to be the Pill police, but…
You know us, we love to keep it light. We’d much rather be writing about matcha or mushrooms, but today we have to get the word out about the Pill. Even if you’re not taking the birth control pill, chances are your partner, daughter, sister, or several people close to...
Why you may want to reconsider the birth control pill
We pride ourselves on working around client's schedules, food preferences and obstacles. After all, our business cards say "nutrition troubleshooters" and our tag line is "you don't have to changes your lifestyle to fit our food plans." So, for the most part we stay...
OUR ELITE TREATS
Clients are already sharing scary accounts of being ensnared in Halloween candy’s web. Perhaps you’d expect our advice to be “NO CANDY”. But that’s not how we roll. It’s more like “don’t waste your treat on candy that’s crappy, inflammation causing or carcinogenic”......
Foodtrainers’ Favorites from the Bulletproof Conference
We’ve been busy. Yesterday, we launched our pretty, newonline shop. Unexpectedly, our curated products have become popular and so we needed to give them a spiffed-up home. There were no major tech issues and orders surpassed our predictions, phew. And, over the...
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