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Saving Time with Char: One Potato-Two Potato-Three Potato-Four
For a long time, potatoes have gotten a bad rap and mainly because they’ve either been fried, or smothered with fattening dairy. But, the reality is that potatoes pack a punch…loaded with potassium...
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Saving Time with Char: Getting the Day off to a Good Start
Getting the Day off to a Good Start I set my alarm for 5:00 AM every day. I enjoy the peacefulness in my house and the time I get to spend by myself. Soon after I get out of bed, I am headed for the...
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Saving Time with Char: The Doctor is in the House
The Doctor is in the House In this modern age of medicine, the house call is something of the past. That is, of course, if you don’t count Dr. McDougall and his line of “Right Foods.” I am pretty...
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Saving Time With Char: Veggies en Papillote
Saving Time with Char Oo-La-La…Veggies en Papillote Oh, I know, it sounds so fancy. Broccoli en Papillote. But, really, all you are doing is using unbleached parchment paper to steam vegetables in...
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Saving Time With Char: Mighty Bean Muffins!
Saving Time with Char On the Road Again It’s early morning, and I am running late. I still have that engrained “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” thing in my head, and I always eat...
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Saving Time With Char: Potato Taco Time
Before I joined this plant-strong caravan, I never ate potatoes. They’d gotten such a bad rap, and although I ate horribly, the potato just seemed too “fattening” to eat. I know now that it wasn’t...
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Saving Time With Char: Flavored Water…The New Beverage: Plus Win A “Cuppow!”
Saving Time with Char Flavored Water…The New Beverage They say that “time is money.” On a recent trip to the grocery store, I was intrigued with the vast collection of fruit and herb infused waters....
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Saving Time With Char: Polenta Fries… Quick And Easy
Polenta seems to be the new black. On many modern menus, it seems to be a replacement for the omnipresent potato. Now, you know that I love the potato, but variety is one of the tools that helps to...
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Saving Time With Char: Be a Promoter!
Saving Time with Char After Reading This, You Will Save Time (from debating your plant-strong lifestyle) A few years ago, I was part of a panel where someone had asked me, “How do you defend your...
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Saving Time With Char: Engine 2 to the Rescue (Plus a giveaway!)
Saving Time with Char Engine 2 to the Rescue! When I first met Rip Esselstyn three years ago, my ears were in overdrive when he said that he would be getting ready to introduce his Engine 2 Foods...
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Saving Time with Char: In My Kitchen
Saving Time with Char In My Kitchen I live in an old home, something constructed in the 1930’s. It is charming, and has served us well. If you’re a realtor, you know that the word “charming”...
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Saving Time with Char: When Time is Money at the Dollar Store
When I talk to people about being plant-strong, I always hear comments about the time factor they perceive that is involved with making delicious, plant-strong food. If you read this blog, you know...
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Saving Time with Char: Dinner Time
Saving Time with Char Dinner Time The weekend has come to a close. I am tying up loose ends so that the new week is off to a good start. Dinner is on my mind. I am thinking of a “multi-task”...
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Saving Time with Char: You’ve Got Me Going In Circles
It’s the summer. We all want to spend more time outdoors and less time in the kitchen. While summer salads are all the rage, sometimes, it is more fun to mix it up a bit without having to turn the...
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Saving Time with Char: Dinner with Rip (well, sort of)
Saving Time with Char Dinner with Rip (well, sort of) There I was on a mission to get some kale and some other incidentals at my local Whole Foods Market. I bumped into an old friend who works at the...
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Saving Time With Char: Tortilla Time, Engine 2 Style
It’s pretty amazing to me that I have been plant-strong for nearly four years. In the beginning, I was overwhelmed and not sure where to turn or what to do. There was a complexity that seemed out of...
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Saving Time with Char: The Mighty Potato
Saving Time with Char Summer Update People still ask me the potato question. It is the number one question I get, after the time thing. As I have previously mentioned, potatoes are rich and...
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Saving Time With Char: Shopping on a Shoe String, Plant-Strong Style!
Saving Time with Char Shopping on a Shoe String, Plant Strong Style I was listening to a talk show the other day, and the conversion was about the “expense of eating healthy.” I wanted to jump into...
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Saving Time with Char: Breakfast Month!
Nibble.com will list every food holiday imaginable. Some are very attractive titles and totally plant strong, and many other titles look like celebrations for the SAD. Some of the titles actually...
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Saving Time With Char: Getting the Day off to a Good Start & A Recipe for...
Saving Time with Char Getting the Day off to a Good Start This is from the “Charchives.” Last week, I bumped into someone who said to me, “Ah, is there anything I can get at the drive-thru for Engine...
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