Potluck Dinner: Top Trend for 2010 Holiday Season

(PRWEB) August 20, 2010 -- As the holiday season approaches and the planning for get-togethers begins, potlucks may be the answer for entertaining. Potlucks are featured on the“front...

'Nature's Lunchbox' carries message of healthy foods

For years the lunchroom at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum was just a beige box, a place with four blank walls where visitors could get a snack from the vending machines and families or school groups would eat their bagged lunches.

You Are What You Eat: Veggie-mania

By Katy G. Wilkens, MS, RD I have discovered a great new diet. I am going to write a book and make a million dollars! The diet is guaranteed for weight loss, heart and kidney health, blood pressure control, diabetes control and cancer prevention. What’s the secret, you ask? Vegetables! Americans eat fewer vegetables than we used to and a lot less than most people around the globe. An initiative ...

Dining out needn't mean gaining pounds

Dining out is part of everyday life, whether it’s grabbing something on the way home from work, a special occasion, a romantic meal for two or just because you feel like it! The great news is that with a few handy tips, dining out doesn’t need to mean piling on the lbs.

Free seminars in Baldwin County

GULF SHORES, Ala, — Rick Zapata, Regional Extension Agent for Consumer Science and Personal Financial Management for the Alabama Cooperative Extension system says the he is here for the people. Free seminars and workshops are being conducted by the organization to assist those in the Baldwin County area who have been diversely affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.