What Cooking Oils are Best for You?
When you’re sautéing, baking, frying, gravy-making, biscuit-buttering, stir-frying, hair masking, moisturizing, or performing any other bizarre activity using some sort of fat, it's tough to know which cooking oil you should use. There are...
Cooking Survival: Eight Items You Need to Get Started
So you want to get cooking...but how?
Y'all know home cooking can save you a billion dollars, tastes a jillion times better than store-bought, and is a gazillion times better for your health. But cooking...
Four Ways to Pump up Your Iron Intake
I don't think you guys understand how hard it is to pull myself away from nonstop video game playing (I'm on summer break after all, don't judge me) to write an article about increasing...
Imperfect Produce: Too Ugly to be Worth it?
Ever wonder what happens to the imperfect produce that farmers can't sell to grocery stores? Well, traditionally the poor, ugly, undesirable produce either rots in the fields, gets put into animal feed, or is...
Collagen Supplements: Worth the Price?
If you're reading this, you've probably heard about how collagen supplements are going to keep you youthful, flexible, and as spry as a young deer.
The marketing folk behind collagen supplements must be geniuses,...
The Ketogenic Diet: My Experience
The recent popularity of the ketogenic diet has a lot of people asking questions such as "What is the ketogenic diet? Does the ketogenic diet work? Is the ketogenic diet a fad? Will it...
Why It’s Not Your Fault You’re Overweight
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past couple years, you most definitely have heard of Nicole Arbour and her infamous "Dear Fat People" rant. If you haven't, here's a video summing...
Why Frozen Produce is the New Fresh
"Eat fresh fruits and veggies only! The fresher the better! Canned and frozen foods have waaaay less nutrients, so don't be gross and eat that crap!" says everyone all the time.
Well folks, they may...
The Stink Behind “Added Fiber” Products
UPDATE: Three years after this post was written, the FDA issued an update to how "fiber" is defined. I will write an article about these updates soon. Until then, here is a link to...
Delicious Glaze for Chicken in Seconds!
Chicken is borrrrrring, am I right? There has never been a cult chicken following that could come close to rivaling the bacon or beef versions. For instance, there aren't T-shirts like this made for...