Finishing off a lip-smacking good scoop of your favorite ice cream with a crunchy cone just feels oh-so satisfying. No bowl and spoon can match it. There’s just something that screams “summertime” (and it’s not you screaming for some ice cream) about eating this season’s favorite treat perfectly cradled in the wonderful, edible cone. Plus, July is National Ice Cream Month, so you just have to celebrate, right?
Chomp down on this tasty recipe for homemade ice cream cones.
Some people are magnetically drawn to the savory-salty delight of a wide open potato chip bag, happily crunching away like squirrels that stockpile nuts for the winter months. For others, their weakness can be found directly in the tooth – the sweet tooth, that is – with today’s manufacturers rolling out a never ending array of seductive and seemingly not-too-sinful treats jam packed with ingredients that almost seem healthy. When Mylar-wrapped goodies boast such good-for-you terms as ‘natural’, ‘low fat’ and ‘part of a heart healthy diet’, it’s not entirely surprising that we gamely chomp down.
Plastic in my lotion? Naah…impossible. Well, that’s just it – we’ve learned to trust our favorite brands, but it seems that we’ve given them far too much leeway because they continue cramming a whole bunch of funky business into products that, on the surface, seem totally beneficial. Profits have taken precedence over consumer safety and lax product guidelines have made it even easier for manufacturers to pull the wool over our eyes. While this is the current climate, we don’t have to accept it.
Now that Fourth of July has passed, we are knee deep in the Summer. Beach trips, summer books, road trips, etc. With the help of our friends around the web, we have gathered some great posts to get you in the right state of mind. Why not pick up one of Crushable’s novella reccomendations and take a road trip to a beach someone this weekend? All the whilie, stay fit by checking out some of Experience Life’s on-the-road fitness tips! In any case, enjoy your weekend anyway you can. We’ll see you next week!
Are your green thumbs showing the early but inevitable signs of garden warrior frustration? You know, when you start realizing that despite your ever-escalating insect-fighting vigilance, somehow there are always hundreds of additional crummy little leaf munchers and stem suckers mounting their attack the moment you take a brief bathroom break? It can get to the point where all of the natural pesticides in the world may still not enable you to retrieve those precious few (and still unscathed) tomatoes from the grimy clutches of the green worm brigade.
When my son was about five, we had our first grocery store temper tantrum over a bag of chocolate chip cookies. You’d think this would have happened much sooner in his life, but I had always managed to successfully steer him in the direction of a healthy choice like a banana first and then follow up with a tiny bag of fruit-juice sweetened animal crackers. But on this day, the healthy food planets weren’t aligned and my son wanted chocolate chip cookies now, now, now, now. “We have chocolate chip cookies at home,” I told him, but he was wild, like a tornado.
You’re great at multitasking, why shouldn’t your garden be? Actually, there are quite a few plants that produce more than just vegetables, and are remarkably easy to grow. As if sheer deliciousness wasn’t enough.
Even if you can’t make it to Hawaii this season, you can still bring a bit of the tropics into your life (and into your belly) with these recipes for tropical cocktails, all picked up on the island of Maui.
Most tropical cocktails are made with rum, a spirit long associated with island life, pirates and frou-frou umbrella drinks. Use top-shelf liquors to lessen your hangover, and buy organic when you can – our favorite is Papagayo Organic Fairtrade White Rum from Maison Jomère. And please – save the artificially flavored liquors for the tourists and the frat boys.
It’s no secret that large amounts of sugar in processed foods is bad for our health, giving us energy lulls and headaches, fooling us into feeling unsatisfied so we eat more and making us addicted until we get our next hit. Oh, and did I mention the havoc it can cause to your skin?
But what do you do when you feel a bit of a slump in the afternoon and get a crazy sweet craving that just won’t go away? As tempting as it may be, don’t reach for that chocolate bar or bag of sweets. Instead, learn to love natural sources of sweetness that’ll give you a less intense low afterwards and make you feel much happier and healthier in the long run!
It’s high summer, and even your salad wants to dress up in bright, fun colors. You probably know that nasturtium and marigold flowers add both color and flavor — but the list of edible flowers is long, and a few of them are probably in your garden right now. Here are five delicious, colorful flowers you might not have known you could eat.