Challengers! You made it to Week 4! If you are an east coast survivor of Jonas, you might be sluggishly limping toward the finish line. Hopefully, you have had enough experience eating well these past few weeks that you recognize the benefits of eating many plants each day. I am still enjoying hearing about your… Read More Fruit & Veggie Challenge 2016: Week 4 – Preparation & Planning
Challengers, you made it to Week 3! I am so excited you keep coming back for more. The best part about the challenge is every time you put food in your mouth you have the opportunity to start again. I typically eat 5-6 small meals per day. That is 5 to 6 opportunities to eat… Read More Fruit & Veggie Challenge 2016: Week 3 -Pick a Perfect Portion
After the positive response to my Smoothie 101 video on Facebook, I wanted to share some next-level smoothie information with you guys. Why smoothies? 1. Many plants – small package. In our effort to achieve ‘wellness’, we have learned that eating lots and lots of plants are good for us! Smoothies can pack several fistfuls in… Read More Build a Better Smoothie
How did it go last week, Challengers?!? I am having so much fun hearing from you guys and getting pictures of you & your food! Hopefully through your journaling you were able to get a feel for how many fistfuls of fruits and/or vegetables you are taking in each day. Also – where are you… Read More Fruit & Veggie Challenge 2016: Week 2 -Step Toward Change
Good Morning, Challengers! Our goal for this week is: AWARENESS. Hopefully you have stocked your kitchen with fruits & veggies you really enjoy and are comfortable preparing. As you aim to eat more fruits & veggies today than you have been eating in the past couple of weeks (months?), I would encourage you to keep a… Read More Fruit & Veggie Challenge 2016: Week 1-Awareness
ARE YOU READY TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH? Welcome to the Amy Abell Wellness Fruit & Veggie Challenge Quick Start Guide! As a Certified Health Coach my goal for this challenge is simple: getting YOU to eat more fruits and vegetables. We will break it down over the four weeks into mini-goals. The challenge… Read More Fruit & Veggie Challenge 2016 – Quick Start Guide
Happy Holidays to you! This was our breakfast casserole on Christmas morning. I roasted some veggies which started to look a little less-than-fresh in the fridge: red pepper, sweet potato, carrots. I threw in some torn-up fresh spinach and scallions raw, added the egg mixture the night before and we had a very easy, pretty… Read More Holiday Egg Casserole
You see what I did there? I love all the fall and winter squashes. With the sadness of the end of summer, fall arrives with crisp apples, sweet broccoli, and my favorite squash – Butternut. Butternut Squash is rich in Vitamin A via beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is the most researched cartenoid, a powerful antioxidant. It is… Read More Fall in Love with Squash
With the end of Labor Day comes the un-official end of summer. Kids are back-to-school and adults are back to routine. If you took a peek in fields of your local farmer you would see fall crops starting to emerge, but you will also find a bounty of summer crops still available: eggplant, corn, nectarines, tomatoes,… Read More Summer Is Still Here
Summer time is perfect for pesto. We are headed to Italy this month and the last time we visited I had real Pesto Genovese. Like, actual pesto made in Genova with real Genovese basil. Amazing. I love making pesto, but also want to eat the most nutritious food I can. I adapted a few different… Read More Presto: Perfect Pesto!
