Making some changes You may have noticed that the layout of Living Healthy in the Real World has undergone a makeover! I have finally found a blog template that I really like. I met with my graphic designer earlier this week and we made some fun changes to my entire website. Check out the main [...]
Steven of Easy Diet Labels kindly sent me some of his stickers to review a couple of weeks ago, and I have been enjoying slapping the stickers on food products all over my kitchen ever since. A bag of frozen tofu got the “Great choice” sticker. A carton of free-range eggs got the “You made a [...]
One of the fun new toys that I received as a house-warming gift was a digital kitchen scale. Squee! I’ve always wanted one of them. I like being able to measure out food gram for gram. This will also make life much easier when trying to cook from a Nigella Lawson book (trying to convert [...]
Nutrition labels and information on ingredients for food products is probably one of my most passionate interests within the field of nutrition. I even wrote a feature piece about the misleading claims on food products for a newspaper last year. So when Andrea from POM Wonderful contacted me about how Minute Maid has been misleading [...]
Ever since I went vegan for a month in September 2009, I’ve really cut back on dairy. I drink non-dairy milk (either soy milk or almond milk, unsweetened). I cut out cheese entirely for a while, but I have been eating more of it lately, just in smaller portions. I have also stopped eating yogurt. [...]
This is the final part of our Cleaning & Organizing mini-series! Be sure to check out our previous installments: Part One: Why Should I Clean? Part Two: Starting Fresh Part Three: Dealing with Housemates Part Four: Cleaning and Organizing the Bathroom Part Five: Creating a Welcoming Living Space Part Six: Working in your Kitchen Part [...]
Don’t forget to answer this month’s poll about wearing sunscreen! The Living Healthy in the Real World Guide to Cleaning & Organizing Be sure to check out our previous installments: Part One: Why Should I Clean? Part Two: Starting Fresh Part Three: Dealing with Housemates Part Four: Cleaning and Organizing the Bathroom Part Five: Creating [...]
Don’t forget to answer this month’s poll about sunscreen! I use moisturizer daily, so when I was offered the opportunity to try out this product before it has even been released to the public, I was all too eager to do so. Disclaimer: I received the sample for free and did not receive any further [...]
Last month’s poll In our last poll, we discussed our particular exercise styles. With 40 total voters, 55% prefer to exercise solo, 5% like exercising in group situations the best, 37.5% like a combination of exercising by themselves and with others, and 2.5% don’t exercise. Glad to see that only 1 in 40 poll participants [...]
Be sure to check out our previous installments: Part One: Why Should I Clean? Part Two: Starting Fresh Part Three: Dealing with Housemates Part Four: Cleaning and Organizing the Bathroom Part Five: Creating a Welcoming Living Space Part Six: Working in your Kitchen Part Seven: The Bedroom As someone who has dealt with sleeping issues [...]
