Our food writer Andrea Weigl has got a great story in the Life section today melding healthy eating with frugal living.
Her story, which you can read HERE, gives you tips and recipes for cooking with dried beans.
Full of protein and incredibly cheap, dried beans will help you trim your budget and your waistline.
Earth Fare grocery stores have launched a new program to help save shoppers money. Even better, when you sign up to check it out, you'll receive a $10 store credit.
You'll automatically receive 1,000 points for signing up for the new Tomato Bank program, which means you have an automatic $10 to spend the next time you shop at Earth Fare, a small chain of healthy living grocery stores based in Asheville.
Earth Fare has one store in the Triangle in the Brier Creek area of North Raleigh.
Other ways to earn Tomato Bank points include:
Go HERE to see Greg's list.
One lucky reader has won a goodie bag full of Wholesome Goodness snack foods in my latest blog giveaway.
I'll be sending the winner six bags of various Wholesome Goodness trail mixes and dried fruits, part of a line of new products available at Wal-Mart and Rite Aid.
And the winner is:
I just want to alert you that I'm giving away two cookbooks on the Turning the Scales blog.
"Good Housekeeping Light & Healthy Cooking: 250 Delicious, Satisfying, Guilt-Free Recipes" and "Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite: 125 Super-Fresh Recipes for a High- Energy Life."
You know the drill. To enter, click on the cookbook title above and leave a comment. Good luck!
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Advocates for Health in Action is sponsoring a Healthy Brown Bag Challenge next week and is asking the public to sign up.
In celebration of National Nutrition Month, AHA is encouraging adults to pack healthy lunches for a week. Why are they sponsoring this challenge? North Carolina ranks 14th in the nation as the most obese state for adults, and more than 60 percent of adults in Wake County are overweight or obese, according to AHA.
Among the Triangle businesses and government agencies who have partnered with AHA for the challenge: WakeMed Health & Hospitals, City of Raleigh, Town of Cary, YMCA of the Triangle, Wake County and several others.
Once you sign up, the group will email you with healthy lunch ideas, recipes, a shopping list and tips. Go HERE to sign up and read more about the initiative.
With healthy, low-calorie meals behind me, can I justify having Bojangles' once week because I was "a good girl"? Probably not. Like all things in life, you have to pick your battles. I'm going to hold myself to one Fast-Food binge every 4-6 weeks, both for dietary reasons as well as sustainability and animal welfare concerns.
