Hacking Salt Teams Up With Healthy Heart Market for Low Sodium Savings I have been a customer of Healthy Heart Market for a few years now. It was a surprise to find them. I was looking for a one-stop-shop (if that was possible) for all things low sodium. Co-incidentally, that is exactly the reason Pete […]
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When temps drop here in Minnesota, my mind (and stomach) go wandering back to Florida. The sun, heat, beaches, and most of all the sublime Pork roasted in a bath of mojo sauce: Cuban Pork. I have shared in the past how formative to my cooking style and repertoire, the Cuban and Latin flavors of
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Nothing sums up the Holidays, Christmas, and Winter in General than the smell of fresh baked cookies! Baking is a tricky area when you are on a low sodium diet. You can miss hidden sodium and that (in addition to the sugar) can derail a diet easily. This holiday season we have been dedicating time
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One of my must have kitchen tools is a Crock Pot (also known as a slow cooker). We have a household of five busy people! We are always on the go with scouting, sports, or other activities, and need to keep fed too. I love the option of throwing a meal together and letting it
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If you grew up in a neighborhood where there were Christmas Cookie Exchanges, you were truly blessed! It typically meant your house was filled with many varieties of baked goodies through the Holiday Season. At one point our neighborhood was up to 15 neighbors who participate. You made 16 dozen cookies. One dozen to keep
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It’s time for the first frost of the season here in Minnesota. That means we rush to harvest any of the last offerings of the summer garden. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, and pumpkins all were collected and protected from the frost. Once the bounty is brought in a cleaned up, we scramble to make yummy dishes
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Low Sodium American Goulash – A Healthy Comfort Food The temperatures continue to fall. So again we want to put something warm and comforting in our tummy! I have been visiting some of the classic comfort dishes and now it is time to look at Goulash! Goulash is something most people have heard of, but
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Low Sodium Tater Tot Hotdish I’m a Minnesotan, so if there is a dish at all that we are experts in, it’s Hot Dish. Some people may call it casserole (you are WRONG!), but I digress. It is the staple of all church basement meetings and socials. The star of potlucks. The Diva of neighborhood
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Saturday mornings in Florida means Cuban Coffee with Sweet Toast. More accurately my order at the cafe was for “Un Café Cubano y dos Torrejas por favor.” It is the equivalent of Coffee and croissants you would order in France. It is a gloriously decadent way to spend a Saturday morning. You sit outside at
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Grilled Ahi Tuna Sesame Noodle Bowls with Kiwi Pineapple Salsa It is recipe contest time again! Zespri is bringing a new varietal of Kiwifruit to the market. For a Minnesotan like myself, we are familiar with new varietals of fruit and we get pretty excited about them. The University of Minnesota is famous for creating
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