Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food

This is an amazing article in TIME about our food supply. What are you really eating and what does it mean for your health, your wallet and the environment? This is the what we all need to know!

Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food

Making a Rice Combo for Dinner

I often have those days or evenings when I just don't know what I'm going to cook for dinner. Can you relate? It just feels like I'm using up too much brain power trying to figure it out - simple, quick, healthy. Those are usually my goals - and of course - delicious! However, too often I just don't want to figure out what to put together, so I've created a life saver of a dish - the Rice Combo!!!

For example, for dinner tonight I knew I wanted to have some beets I picked up at the farmer's market (by the way - boiled sliced beets, drizzled with crumbled goat cheese, olive oil and crushed pecans - yum!), but what else would we have with those beets? I had no meat or fish at all, and while I'm not a huge meat gal myself, my husband definitely likes to have his fair share. Usually, I'll do a quality, lean protein, lots of veggies and some whole grains. Then you have your nice, neat three part dinner. That wasn't happening.

Introducing the Rice Combo! Basically, I cook some organic brown rice (or quinoa, wild rice, forbidden rice) in my rice cooker - no monitoring needed. Then I saute in a pan other foods that I have, like veggies, beans, lentils, herbs, spices and oil. I check my pantry, the fridge and think about what would be some tasty, healthy foods to add. I try to add variety, different colors, textures and lots of veggies. Once those are mostly cooked, I add the cooked rice to the pan and mix it all together.

Here's what I came up with tonight: forbidden rice, green lentils, fresh corn I cut off leftover cooked corn cobs, scallions, garlic, yellow pepper and toasted sesame oil. Voila! I also decided to throw the beet greens in with the rice and just have the beets on the side. It's simple, super easy and if you make enough - perfect for lunch the next day. And my husband loves it! :)

The next time you are at a loss for what to have for dinner - experiement with a rice combo of your own!

Upcoming Workshops

I'm excited to announce that I have scheduled my first group workshop at the Yoga Center of Maine (YCOM) in Auburn, Maine. It's all about sugar and learning how to understand our sweet cravings! Please visit my website for more info or to register for the class.

I will also be holding a group Women's Nutrition program at YCOM, beginning in September. This is a seven week program, spanning over a few months. It will be a great way to start working toward your health goals - losing weight, increasing energy, fighting disease - with the additional support of other women with similar goals in mind. The dates are being finalized, so stay tuned!

Welcome to the KSW blog!

Welcome to my blog for Kendall Scott Wellness! I hope that this blog will provide you with some fun, interesting and new info about health and wellness, the latest happenings for Kendall Scott Wellness, my personal experiences with nutrition, great healthy recipes and more. Today's blog is a little intro as to what KSW is all about and an invitation to a free health consult!

I began Kendall Scott Wellness in March 2009. The mission for KSW is to help others experience a refreshing, fun and innovative approach to health through health and nutrition counseling. Through simple, gradual changes to your lifestyle and daily diet, you can meet your personal health and wellness goals - lose weight, increase energy, be happy, feel stronger, age healthfully, improve chronic illnesses and get off medications. The food we eat can do so much for our bodies - more than traditional textbook definitions of nutrition could ever encompass. "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."

What I DON'T encourage is the following: counting calories or points, stop eating sweets, eat barely enough so your stomach and body is never satisfied or eat grass and sticks all day. :) No way! Are you kidding? I can't live like that and neither should anyone else. I love food, love to eat and want others to find the fun in food too. It shouldn't be stressful, painful or emotionally taxing.

Think about what your health-related goals are over the next six months. Are you having trouble achieving them on your own? What would your life be like if you could reach your goals? Probably pretty amazing, and the truth is you CAN reach them. I promise! Not only can you reach your goals, but I think you'd be very pleasantly surprised by the additional unexpected benefits that arise. For me personally, going through chemotherapy and surgery, but eating foods that supported my body, is what made me realize that food really is fuel for our bodies, but also much more - it's connected to our moods, physical aches and pains, the majority of illnesses, mental alertness, and literally every part of your life.

Ok, I'm already beginning to ramble a bit, but this is simply something I believe in whole heartedly and hope to help others get to where they want to be. I invite you to a free health consultation just to see what health counseling can offer you. You'll be able to discuss your health concerns confidentially with me and learn how we can work together to get you where you want to be. Health consults and counseling can be done over the phone - in fact I have several clients on the opposite side of the country! Visit http://kendallscottwellness.com/ to schedule a free consult.