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a nutritionist's view on eating for balance, wellness and happiness

Archive for February, 2011

eating more vegetables&fruit &healthy recipes franziska | 28 Feb 2011

Vegetable & Turkey Lasagna

My family weekend in the mountains was wonderful . Lucy and I snowshoed everyday and I made a kick-butt lasagna on Saturday. I have made many lasagnas before but wanted to try something a little different and found a Self Vegetable Lasagna that I thought looked like a good start then came up with several modifications. [...]

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health tips franziska | 24 Feb 2011

Fun weekend planned :)

I am so excited about my long weekend planned! My sister-in-law and her husband are flying in from California and Will and I along with Will’s brother and his girlfriend are going up to the mountains (Dillon/Silverthorne area) for a ski weekend! Now, I am not skiing anymore. Some say its okay but honestly I [...]

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favorite food items &healthy snacks franziska | 23 Feb 2011

Snacks, snacks and more snacks . . .

Eating has become even more center stage for me now that I am pregnant and that says a lot since food has always been a BIG part of my life.  I am starving every 3 hours so I eat at least 2 snacks per day now instead of one and larger meals. Anyway, what I have been [...]

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cooking franziska | 22 Feb 2011

Don’t be afraid to mess up in the kitchen!

If you cook a lot at home you know that sometimes you mess up, improvise ingredients and just wing it . If you are not that comfortable in the kitchen then you may be intimidated or nervous about trying new things. Don’t be! We all have stories of kitchen disasters – I burnt nachos to a [...]

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healthy recipes franziska | 18 Feb 2011

Chicken & White Bean Soup with Herb Swirl

As you all know I love soup and I love making soup.  I especially like soup when I am sick and these are also the times I am not in the mood to run to the store and make soup – what to do? First, if you read the blog from yesterday packaged & prepared foods a [...]

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health tips &healthy eating franziska | 17 Feb 2011

Sodium and your diet & health

I went to a Sodium Conference put on by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment yesterday and thought I should share some details. First, I personally do not worry about sodium too much since most sodium comes from packaged and processed foods and I limit these however after this conference I too will take [...]

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healthy recipes franziska | 14 Feb 2011

I am back!

I am back finally! I have been intermittant with my emails since I was out parts of the past 2 weeks with a nasty cold and also trying to get through my 1st trimester of pregnancy. Thats right folks – I am pregnant! I wanted to wait until the 2nd trimester or close to (12 [...]

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Uncategorized franziska | 08 Feb 2011

will be back soon . . .

I am so sorry that I have not been blogging. I got a nasty virus from Will (thanks honey!). I was able to get back to work Friday and Saturday (busy research time) but am still struggling with head congestion and a cough. So just trying to get through my work responsibilites and rest. I [...]

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Uncategorized franziska | 03 Feb 2011

out sick

sorry I have not posted in awhile – first work strated out crazy busy and Will was really sick so was coming home to take care of him and now I am really sick will be back soon . . .

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