Healthy Food

Escondido trio open healthy food-and-lifestyle restaurant Fresh N Go

Violin02/03/2023 48 Views

As a girl growing up in Escondido, Esvaidy Flores loved working with her mother, chopping up vegetables and prepping other ingredients for her mom’s catering business.

Years later, she’s working by her mother’s side once again, as well as her best friend, in a new casual healthy-foods restaurant they opened Jan. 14 in Escondido.

Fresh N Go cofounders Olga Saldivar, left, Alma Packer and Esvaidy Flores.

Flores, her mom, Alma Packer, and her longtime close friend Olga Saldivar are partners in Fresh N Go, which serves healthy pick-your-protein grains and rice bowls, organic pressed juices

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Grow Healthy Food: Save $304 on a Gardyn Gardening System

Violin01/03/2023 46 Views

The MyGardyn being used in a kitchen by a family.

As yet another winter storm is here to remind us that February is, indeed, winter it feels like all we can do is twiddle our green thumbs until spring. But, with innovative products like the Gardyn Home Kit 2.0, you can grow your own produce any time of the year in your own smart garden. If you pick up a Gardyn Home Kit 2.0 right now, you can get it for 30% off. That’s $304 off the usual $999, making the kit just $695. The Gardyn, which self monitors the plants it contains, can also be paired with a membership

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NGA: Don’t lock us out of healthy food benefit programs

Violin28/02/2023 47 Views

The National Grocers Association (NGA) has written a letter to the White House urging officials to re-think its position on supplemental health benefit cards — and what kinds of grocery stores shoppers are allowed to use them at.

Right now, those with supplemental health benefit cards — which contain a stipend for the purchase of healthy foods in grocery stores — can’t use the cards at independent grocery stores.

By excluding the independent segment from the program by denying them the technologies needed to process benefits, issuers, including specific private plans, Medicare Advantage plans, and some Medicaid plans with waivers,

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Love to spoil your dog? The Farmer’s Dog is serving up 50% off fresh dog food right now

Violin28/02/2023 74 Views

You can save 50% on your first order of The Farmer's Dog fresh dog food today. — You can save 50% on your first order of The Farmer’s Dog fresh dog food today.

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We are clearly suckers for puppy dog eyes. It has been weeks since The Farmer’s Dog first introduced us to an adorable chocolate lab called Bear during the Super Bowl 2023 and we are still in love. The fresh dog food brand aired an emotional 60-second spot featuring Bear happily devouring tasty bowls of The Farmer’s Dog food throughout life. The

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Healthy food has become unaffordable for many Muskoka residents

Violin27/02/2023 45 Views

As the cost of living continues to rise at an unprecedented rate, the results of the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s (SMDHU) 2022 Nutritious Food Basket (NFB) survey show that more residents are finding it difficult to put basic healthy food on the table and for some, it is nearly impossible.

The NFB survey is an important tool to monitor food affordability. Conducted annually, the NFB survey measures how much it costs residents throughout the region to purchase a basic healthy diet. The 2022 survey showed that it costs $1,159.92 for a family of four (two adults and two children)

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Revolutionizing the British Diet: Beans in Toast

Violin26/02/2023 46 Views

Researchers aim to promote faba bean-enriched bread as a healthier and eco-friendly option for British consumers and food producers.

Scientists are striving to transform British diets by incorporating more domestically grown beans into our daily bread.

University of Reading researchers and chefs hope to encourage British consumers and food producers to adopt bread made with faba beans (also known as broad beans), which they believe will lead to a healthier diet and a reduction in environmental harm.

The “Raising the Pulse” project, which has received £2 million in public funding over a three-year period, has officially launched and has recently

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The 4 healthy eating habits of centenarians

Violin24/02/2023 46 Views

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There’s no way to guarantee that you’ll live to be 100. But we can learn a lot from studying the eating habits of the world’s centenarians.

Researchers have identified five places in the world where people have exceptionally long life expectancies — frequently living to 100 or beyond. These areas, called “Blue Zones,” include the Nicoyan Peninsula in Costa Rica, the town of Loma Linda in California, and the islands of Okinawa in Japan, Sardinia in Italy and Icaria in Greece.

At first glance, the diets, lifestyles and habits of people in these Blue Zones

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Kansas’ food sales tax could get cut further. Here’s how it could impact your grocery costs

Violin24/02/2023 95 Views

Lawmakers approved a plan to further reduce Kansas' sales tax on groceries, though its path forward is uncertain as Senate President Ty Masterson, R-Andover, and the Kansas Senate wrangle on a tax plan. — Lawmakers approved a plan to further reduce Kansas’ sales tax on groceries, though its path forward is uncertain as Senate President Ty Masterson, R-Andover, and the Kansas Senate wrangle on a tax plan.

After some wrangling over the best way to address Kansas’ sales tax on food, lawmakers eventually signed off on a measure to reduce the state and local taxes on groceries — though its path forward remains uncertain.

At the beginning of Thursday, the Kansas Senate appeared poised to approve a measure to reduce the sales tax on food — but only for certain foods deemed to be

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