Blog — the cleaner plate club

Your all-access guide to lettuce and why you should eat it and clean it! Here are my top 10 Fit Foodie Facts about why you should eat lettuce: Low Calorie Content & Almost Zero Fat Helps Weight Loss Heart Healthy Omega-3 Fatty Acids Complete Protein (Romaine Lettuce is 20% protein) Helps with Insomnia Lettuce is Alkaline Forming Low Glycemic Index Whole Life Food Lettuce Tastes Great You should ALWAYS choose red or dark colored greens over whites. Red & Green Leaf Lettuces hold more nutritional value and taste than crisphead lettuce (aka Iceberg Lettuce). The Battle of the Lettuce Romaine...

Turkey? Check. Fixin’s? Check. Centerpiece? Check. Salmonella? Let’s keep that one off the menu. On Thanksgiving, being the perfect host or hostess is not just about a beautiful table or delicious food. Above all, it’s about keeping your family and friends food safe, because you don’t want to be remembered as the one who sent their guests to the hospital during the holidays – or even worse. Food-borne illnesses are a growing problem in the United States, with 1 in 6 Americans becoming sick from them every year. Out of those128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. Stories...

Tips & Tricks to a Healthier YOU! It’s so simple, but hard to always remember. Food Feeds Us. So I am here to share a few of my favorite tips and tricks to a healthier YOU!! Companies will try to sell you exercise and workout gimmicks all day long, but ask any trainer or professional athlete and they will tell you that 95% of your success in your health and fitness is determined by WHAT YOU EAT! Last month, we shared the Top 3 Ways to Clean Up Your Diet (read it here). Today, I am sharing a few more...

What would happen if you had a beautiful, roaring fire going and just let it burn down, with out adding more wood. It’s going to die out, right? You can think of your metabolism the same way. The brainpower it takes to just read these words is taking energy and energy for us creatures comes from, thankfully, food. It’s a beautiful pleasure we get to enjoy multiple times a day! Now, imagine if just by eating delicious food, you could turn on innate powers in your body that will heal you from the inside out. Your system was designed to...