Pasta.  It’s usually one of those off-limits no-go ingredients when on a diet.  It makes sense.  Store bought dry pasta is made of highly processed flour, eggs, and enough additives to preserve it for a shelf life that ensures it will still be edible long after the zombie apocalypse has come and gone. It’s best to […]

I try to stress in this series that eating healthy does not have to be boring.  I’ve witnessed people losing weight a few weeks before a trip or event, and they invariably resort to some unsustainable diet and exercise routine. The eating plan is usually just a can of tuna and one apple a day, […]

Back in the day, I would make an Oreo cake from time to time. It was a typical Devil’s Food flavor cake-in-a-box from the mega-mart, mass produced cream cheese full of unnecessary ingredients, a tub of frozen Cool Whip, and about two-thirds of a large package of Oreo cookies. It was topped with a hard shell of melted […]

Chicken fajitas are one of the few things I can order from a restaurant these days that fit my lifestyle… barely.  Restaurants still use prison chickens that never get to move once in their life and go from chick to broiler so fast it looks like a time lapse video.  They also use enough salt […]

The goal of my articles is to take unhealthy or highly processed foods, and use as few ingredients as possible to recreate it into an improved version.  This recipe is the pinnacle of that mission statement.  I’m taking one of the most unhealthy items you can buy in a mega-mart and transforming it into a powerhouse […]