Small Meals Are Best

I don’t really need another study to tell me that eating frequent small meals is best…but here’s another one anyhow. A several French researchers, including Xavier Allirot, knew that if you ate smaller meals frequently throughout the day, rather than the traditional breakfast, lunch, and dinner, it was easier to keep weight off.  But, there were no studies to prove it.  Allirot said, “There is no scientific consensus as to the optimum number of meals we should have for weight management and speculations regarding this are often contradictory.” So, he and his colleagues set out to do their own.  The … Continue reading

1 Recipe 2 Ways: Chocolate Chip or Cinnamon Scones

Photo credit: momtastic.com I always thought that scones were too hard to make. Then I discovered that it is okay to cheat a little bit. You can produce yummy scones that take just a few minutes to produce. No one will ever know, unless you tell them! I started with a basic chocolate chip scone. My family loves chocolate chips in everything. Having chocolate chips somewhere in breakfast is a real treat. While we don’t do it all of the time, we will have the occasional chocolate chip muffin or chocolate chip pancakes. One time I even incorporated them into theme … Continue reading