Nutrition

3 Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes for Lazy (or just Busy) Girls

3 Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes for Lazy (or just Busy) Girls

These superfood recipes are the perfect lazy girl’s guide to a healthy Thanksgiving. As always, they require few ingredients, simple prep, and no fancy kitchen tools. They also happen to be dairy, soy, egg and gluten free, but don’t tell your guests and I promise they’ll never notice.

Pumpkin Spice & Everything...Healthy

Pumpkin Spice & Everything...Healthy

Although it contains no actual pumpkin but rather the spices used to season pie, "pumpkin spice" (aka pumpkin pie spice) is a mashup of super spices that help everything from digestion to pain and can even help your body process fat and sugar.

Find out why and enter to WIN some free spicy goodness!!!!!!

To Cook or Not to Cook? Which Veggies Are Best Left Raw & Which Need the Heat

To Cook or Not to Cook? Which Veggies Are Best Left Raw & Which Need the Heat

raw doesn’t always mean healthier and in fact, many veggies are better digested and their nutrients better absorbed when cooked. 

Check out the cheat sheet below for the Do’s and Don’ts of which veggies to cook, which not to cook, and why.

3 Thanksgiving Recipes that You Wouldn't Even Know Are Healthy

3 Thanksgiving Recipes that You Wouldn't Even Know Are Healthy

Last weekend was the big Friendsgiving feast, and I got to road test these 3 recipes on my guests, many of whom are amazing cooks, and almost none of whom are vegan, paleo, gluten free or even very health conscious (though all 3 recipes here are!). Each dish received the ultimate stamp of approval: requests for seconds.  Plus, nobody was the wiser that their arteries were as happy as their taste buds.

Pumpkin for Breakfast: 3 Morning Pumpkin Recipes

Pumpkin for Breakfast: 3 Morning Pumpkin Recipes

Now back to when, where and how to eat pumpkin.  Sure it’s easy to find ways to bake pumpkin into desserts, or serve it up at suppertime – but what about first thing in the morning?  Click below for three tasty ways to give your breakfast a boost with this seasonal favorite.

Spring Clean Your Diet with HU KITCHEN's 3 Essential Tips & 5 Pantry Swaps!

Spring Clean Your Diet with HU KITCHEN's 3 Essential Tips & 5 Pantry Swaps!

You’d need just 5 minutes with Jessica Karp, founder of Hu Kitchen (the Manhattan restaurant and café who’s tagline is “get back to human”) to know that she’s on to something.  That’s because although she’s an entrepreneur/business owner, and hands-on mother to a 5 year old girl and 6 month old boy; Jessica lacks the typical signs of someone with little time to eat lunch, let alone hit a spa.  Instead, her skin is glowing, her hair is shiny and her body is fit: she looks…healthy!