TIP OF THE DAY: Orange Milk Or Cream For Halloween

Orange you excited by orange milk? Photo courtesy TruMoo.   TruMoo encourages kids to drink more milk by making lowfat flavored milks in chocolate, coffee, strawberry and vanilla. They’re made with 35% less sugar than the leading chocolate/vanilla milk competitor. For Halloween, TruMoo has tinted the vanilla milk orange. Inspired by their Halloween milk, our…
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HALLOWEEN: Chocolate Covered Orange Peel

For a sophisticated Halloween treat, consider dark chocolate covered orange peels from Lake Champlain Chocolates of Vermont. Chocolate-covered orange peel is one of our favorite chocolate treats. You bite into the refreshing taste of citrus, covered in rich dark chocolate. Fresh Valencia orange peels are sliced and candied before they are dipped into the chocolate,…
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FOOD FUN: Healthy Halloween Snacks

Boo! Chocolate-covered bananas on a stick (photo © Nature Box).   Here are two fun Halloween snacks from NaturesBox.com, an online subscription service that delivers nutritionist-approved snacks to consumers’ doors each month. These are healthful snacks. If you want to be a wee bit wicked, substitute white chocolate (melted) for the vanilla yogurt. Beyond Halloween:…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Broccoli Salad

Broccoli and beet salad. Photo courtesy LoveBeets.com.   “Salad” isn’t limited to leafy greens. Even in the vegetable community, there are salads aplenty made from other veggies—cabbage, carrots, green beans and potatoes, for example. Broccoli salad deserves more attention. It’s rich in powerful, cancer-fighting antioxidants, phytonutrients and carotenoids, which are missing in any significant level…
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COCKTAIL: The Petrossian Fleur De Vers

Petrossian’s magnificent Fleur de Vers: suitable for a coronation or a special event for us commoners. Photo by Kimberly Craven | Petrossian.   Thank goodness the Petrossian brothers, Melkoum and Mouchegh, moved to France from Iran in 1917, when their studies were interrupted by the Russian Revolution. Unable to gain entrance to French medical and…
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