With Thanksgiving right around the corner, you've undoubtedly come across tips and tricks to "beat the holiday bulge" or "fend off festive weight gain."  Come January, magazine covers are awash with headlines urging readers to stick to their health-related new year's resolutions – for good this time!  

Tis the season, and I’m going pumpkin crazy in the kitchen!  Pumpkin has made its way onto my morning oats, below, with a torched banana and peanut butter, into some eggplant curry, and of course, I've whipped up a pumpkin pie.

We eat steaks the size of flying saucers!  Chipotle burritos are crammed down our throats…while driving!  And all those chicken wings…oh my!

Not everyone has access to fresh produce, and I know I'm extremely fortunate to be consuming such a great variety on a daily basis.

Football season is in full swing and evening strolls on the boardwalk require a light jacket.  It seems as though fall really is upon us here in the northeast, and that calls for a welcome addition to my morning routine: O-A-T-S!  Oats, oats, oats!

Lately I've been inundated with garden-picked grape tomatoes – and I'm not complaining! Kept in a big ceramic bowl on the kitchen counter (tomatoes lose flavor and take on a mealy texture in the refrigerator), they're always within reach for easy snacking and salad-topping.

A friend of mine recently lost 15 pounds in the span of about 6 weeks.  In addition to augmenting her daily...

Sweet, tender, golden corn: it’s one of the greatest pleasures of shopping at the farmers market this time of year.  Left to my own devices, I’ll shuck an ear and munch the kernels off a whole cob before I make it home.

A salad at lunch is a no-brainer.  Steamed or grilled vegetables with dinner?  Of course.

Traditional hoison sauce is made with fermented black beans (try finding those in your local grocer) and contains 540 mg sodium for one measly tablespoon.  Here, peanut butter, prunes, and ground spices provide most of the flavor.