How To Diet: Food Review - Cottage Cheese

Eating disorders are chronic, stress related conditions and what time of the year is more stressful than the holidays? Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years. This time of year is all about the food no matter what cultural or ethnic background a person comes from. For women who are still struggling with eating disorders and depression, the holidays bring up many different kinds of stressors.

This weekend, White Silo is holding it's 6th annual Rhubarb Festival. The festival will feature six scrumptious dishes prepared with farm fresh rhubarb plucked straight from the rhubarb patch. Dishes will include crockpot chicken tacos with rhubarb salsa, French toast with rhubarb syrup, rhubarb crisp, and vanilla panna cotta with gingered rhubarb compote, rhubarb ice cream sundae with warm rhubarb sauce, and mixed greens with roasted rhubarb. The festival will also feature live music on Saturday by Blue Yodels from 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. and Martin Meyer on Sunday from 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. to enliven the festive atmosphere. The festival takes place from noon to 5 p.m. each day.

Pollo Campero will also offer a special deal on October 4, 2012. Get a FREE Argentinian Steak, Yucatan Carnitas or Peruvian taco chicken at no cost - with any purchase.

The easiest way to cook those nutritionally well balanced meals is to have two small appliances that will help. The first is a slow cooker chicken taco. You can place your ingredients into the slow cooker chicken taco, set the time and let your meal cook while you are at work. When you come home, you will have your meal waiting for whatever you might want to add to it, and your family and you are ready to share a balanced home cooked meal. The second small appliance that you should have is the microwave. Perhaps you now only use your microwave to heat up left overs or to warm up precooked foods. But you can cook some very healthy and tasty meals in your microwave. Get rid of the precooked foods as they do not have the nutritional value a good home cooked meal has.

Most fast food establishments are catching on to the "healthy" fast food trend. KFC is using a new oil with no trans fats. Arby's has a deli selection so you don't have to eat a beef sandwich covered in processed cheese. chicken taco cups even semi fast food restaurants like Ponderosa have limited their fattening foods in exchange for more vegetables. As a consumer, it's up to you to choose healthy food. If a restaurant doesn't advertise you can interchange a salad for fries, ask. Usually, they are more than willing to accommodate you. Eating healthy isn't a death sentence, enjoy yourself, just be smart.