Grocery Shopping Made Healthy

By now, you should be able to recognize some of the pitfalls of overdoing serving sizes and consuming low-quality foods. Food manufacturers and stores want you to purchase the foods that are the easiest and cheapest to produce, that are available in the greatest abundance, that have addictive properties, and that are the least perishable—basically, most of the foods you can find on the middle aisles of the supermarket. Some salad dressings don’t expire for five years. Is that something you want to put in your body? Read on to learn more about the foods to choose and avoid. Read more

Live-it, Don’t Die-it!

Managing portions and understanding true serving sizes can help you live-it, rather than die-it.

As a nation we have super-sized everything to the point where car manufacturers are making seats and cup holders larger to accommodate our growing bodies and beverages. If you are overweight, you can stop gaining weight first by understanding and cutting down the portions of your foods. Read more

Computing for Less

Don’t think you can whip out a coupon to save on a great personal computer? Think again. Great deals can be found online to help you compute for less.

Dig for Deals
First, dig for deals. This recession has taught us you don’t have to walk into a retail store and pay full price. Bricks-and-mortar retailers are offering great sales and enticing coupons to get you in the store. But don’t let that be the extent of your comparison shopping. Let your fingers do the walking with many great computer price comparison sites. Read more

The Sweet Life

Rachel Thebault went from investment banker to baker. By living her passion she’s enjoying a very sweet life.

For those who’ve acquired an education and built a career in a specialized field, making a major change can be unsettling—especially if you’re uncertain as to what the change should be. Rachel Thebault knows the feeling. After majoring in economics and working for Merrill Lynch and Bank of America as an investment banker, the long hours and hectic travel schedule had Thebault rethinking her career choice. “It didn’t allow me to have a lot of my own time outside the job,” she says. Read more