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Would You Eat at a Restaurant With No Menus?
Recently Mouthing Off, Food & Wine's blog, chatted about the menu, or lack thereof, at Blue Hill at Stone Barns. The restaurant of James Beard Award winning chef Dan Barber stopped using menus a year ago. Instead, diners are presented with a list of in-season ingredients.
Mindful Menus Wherever You Eat Out
Are you someone that has a hard time making healthy choices when dining out? Navigating menus can be tough on even the savviest of healthy eaters so why not get a little help?
Mindful Menus is looking to make eating out a little easier (and healthier) for you.
Healthy Eating Tip: Don't Eliminate, Elaborate!
When approaching health and fitness, many of us have the mentality that less is more. While this may be a healthy perspective to avoid overeating and practice portion control, a restrictive diet can wreak havoc on your mood and leave you wondering whether there’s anything out there you can eat. Instead, alter your state of mind: rather than thinking about what foods to cut out, start to think of your daily menu as a chance to add great-tasting, healthy options.
Should School Lunch Menus Display Calorie Counts?
A North Carolina school district is testing new technology aimed at fighting childhood obesity. The schools have licensed food boards resembling those at fast food drive-thrus, but in the place of prices are calorie counts.
The school board realizes that providing the calorie counts alone won't do much to make a positive change, so teachers will devise lessons for the classroom to help kids make healthier choices.
Yummy Links: From Crab Fondue to Oscar Menus
- This cheesy crab fondue looks to die for! — Simply Recipes
- Find out which store-bought chicken stock tastes the best. — Serious Eats
- Learn how to cook beans in a slow cooker.
Do You Eat at Restaurants With Picture Menus?
Do You Eat at Restaurants With Picture Menus?
Sure! Why not?
Burger King Gets a Makeover
While one fast food chain is temporarily closing stores, another has begun remodeling them. Hoping a facelift will invigorate sales, Burger King announced a major effort to redesign its 12,000 worldwide locations.
Burger King is betting that rotating red flame chandeliers, LCD menus, and corrugated metal and brick walls will encourage customers to sit down and enjoy a meal rather than simply passing through.According to Chairman and CEO John Chidsey, who describes the overhaul as "contemporary, edgy, futuristic .
You'll Never Miss the Meat: Conscious Cook Cookbook
We know that eating less meat is a good thing — it reduces your carbon footprint, lowers your grocery bill, and makes sense for your heart. But does it taste good? Vegetarian diets are often associated with a bland menu of tofu, sprouts, and brown rice day after day.
Healthy Dose Link Time
- Dine like a star: healthy, celeb-approved recipes from LA restaurants — Self
- Biking to work is challenging but worth it — That's Fit
- Calorie counts on menus are shockingly inaccurate — Nutrition Data Blog
- Valerie Bertinelli completes a half marathon! — FitCeleb
- Kickboxing plus yoga equals koga — Vitamin G
- More on David Kirsch's Butt Book — Vital Juice
- The ever-evolving, very confusing world of food labeling — Mark's Daily Apple
- Four fun ways to exercise outside this Summer — Shape
Dunkin' Drinks Join Beef, Cookie Dough Ranks in Food Recall
Yesterday, Dunkin' Donuts temporarily pulled its Dunkaccino and hot chocolate drinks off store menus after discovering that one of its suppliers' facilities may have been contaminated with salmonella. The doughnut chain's supplier, Plainview Milk Products Cooperative, voluntarily recalled several of its products, although no illnesses have been traced back to the contamination. Dunkin' Donuts is confident the drinks will be back in stores soon, but yesterday's recall is simply one more to add to a rapidly growing list of food contamination concerns.
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