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Fancy some Dietary Fiber

Ever wonder how a cow can survive, get fat and produce milk on a diet of grass? A cow’s specialized stomach with 4 compartments can digest the cellulose in plants and use those nutrients. Unfortunately, we humans aren’t able to digest cellulose. Cellulose is just sugar molecules linked together, but we cannot break the type of bond in [...]

Strawberry Parfait Breakfast

I find that the hardest part of making breakfast is trying to decide what to make. I have to make breakfast every morning because I have two teenage boys who need to go off to school with something nutritious in their stomachs.  You may have teenagers who are always famished, and wolf down [...]

Barack Obama Baked Apple Breakfast

I served these baked apples for breakfast on November 5, the morning after the presidential election. I call them Barack Obama Baked Apples because they are sweet, satisfying, full of goodness, and all-American, just like life in the United States as we embark on a new era of politics. It is such a relief [...]