by Denise Barratt | Oct 10, 2018 | Blog, Fall, Food as Medicine, Health, Healthy Recipes, Local Food, Meal Planning, Meal Prepping, Meatless Monday, Seasonal Eating, Spring, Winter
This post is all about sweet potatoes! When I lived on the eastern side of North Carolina, I discovered that our state is the largest sweet potato producer in the country! There are a lot of different varieties of sweet potatoes that I did not even know existed. To...
by Denise Barratt | Sep 26, 2018 | Blog, Fall, Food as Medicine, Health, Healthy Recipes, Local Food, Meal Planning, Meal Prepping, Meatless Monday, Seasonal Eating, Special Events, Winter
It’s fall time and that means it’s the time for local farmers and grocery stores to roll out a lot of unfamiliar squash that no one knows what to do with them. Many of us don’t even know what most of them are called. It’s even hard to know...
by Denise Barratt | Sep 13, 2018 | Blog, Food as Medicine, Health, Healthy Recipes, Local Food, Meal Planning, Meal Prepping, Meatless Monday
I have seen several clients who eat a plant based diet and also have IBS. Some of them have been unsure if they can do the low fodmap elimination diet and continue to eat a plant based diet. As someone who has had IBS for at least thirty years and who also eats plant...
by Denise Barratt | Aug 16, 2018 | Beverages, Blog, Food as Medicine, Health, Healthy Recipes, Local Food, Meatless Monday, Special Events
This week, I am very excited to share with you some delicious recipes ideas using tea and share a few benefits of tea for our health. I also am happy for you to meet Jessie Dean, the owner and creative force behind the company Asheville Tea! If you live in the Western...
by Denise Barratt | Jul 10, 2018 | Blog, Food as Medicine, Health, Healthy Recipes, Local Food, Meal Planning, Meal Prepping, Meatless Monday, Seasonal Eating, Summer
During the heat of the summer, it can be too hot to cook. Our house is old without central air and we do have a couple of box air conditioners that we use on occasion when it gets too unbearable but for the most part, windows and screens are our cooling system. So for...
by Denise Barratt | Jun 12, 2018 | Beverages, Fall, Food as Medicine, Gardening, Healthy Recipes, Local Food, Meal Planning, Meal Prepping, Meatless Monday, Seasonal Eating, Special Events, Spring, Summer
Father’s Day is coming quickly and many of us are getting ready to light up those barbecue grills and celebrate with dads everywhere. And while many dads are going to want hamburgers. I like to make my own burger veggie. But with many of the already made veggie...
