Our NEW Mid-Week Lunch Date: Wednesday Link Love

Learn. Procrastinate. Salivate. (Should this be the new tagline to my blog?)

Every Wednesday at noon PST, the weekly halfway point, I’m going to bring you a week’s worth of my favorite articles, recipes, and tweets, plus some photos of where I’ve been and what I’m doing. It’ll be our mid-week lunch date. 

I’m constantly reading articles, pinning recipes, and taking photos of what I’m up to…but I’ve never compiled them to share with you all. Time to change that! I hope that you find these weekly compilations from around the web helpful – they have a mind-body focus and will typically cover areas of your life from de-cluttering to healthy snacks to decadent recipes that fit into a healthy lifestyle. I’ll also make sure to include links to any articles I write or am quoted in so you can stay up to date with my nutrition writing and philosophy.

My Recent Press:

• 8 Delicious Summer Foods That Are Good For You, Too – CNN
• Just How Picky Is Your Picky Eater? – Scholastic Parents

What I’ve Cooked Lately That Was AWESOME:

• Summer Fruit Crisp – King Arthur Flour (Pin It)
• Kale and Quinoa Salad with Dates, Almonds & Citrus Dressing – The Kitchn (Pin It)
• Whole Grain Penne with Chicken, Mushrooms, and Spinach – Ellie Krieger

What I’m Reading:

• Peanut & Almond Butter Recall – FDA
• How to Pack Awesome (and Easy) School Lunches – Foodlets
• The Mind-Water Connection (Plus, 3 Tips for Better Hydration!) – Elle Penner for MyFitnessPal
• 21 Healthier Versions of Your Favorite Breakfasts – BuzzFeed Life
• 7 Tricks to Make It Easy to Eat Healthy All Week – Alexandra Jamieson for MindBodyGreen
• 10 Feng Shui Tips to Create Beauty & Order In Your Home – Amanda Gibby Peters for MindBodyGreen
• Careful Meal Timing Can Help You Lose Weight – Jennifer Neily for SunSentinel
• Resistant Starch Lowers Red Meat-Related Colorectal Cancer Risk – Benita Matilda for Science World Report
• What You Need to Know Before You Reuse That Plastic Water Bottle – Amanda Chan for Huffington Post
• Low Vitamin D Increases Risk for Dementia and Alzheimers, – Eliana Dockterman for Time
• In Ayurveda-style Cooking, ‘Food is Medicine’ – The Dallas Morning News
• Too Much Zucchini? Here’s How to Freeze It – TheKitchn
• How Many Bites Do You Take a Day? Try for 100 – The New York Times
• Probiotics Primer: What Science Says About Using Bacteria to Treat Disease – Alexandra Sifferlin for Time

What I’m Salivating Over:

• Dark Chocolate Cherry Truffles – 30 Seconds with A&J (Pin It)
• Easy Chocolate Almond Butter Cups – paleOMG (Pin It)
• 12 Ways to Cook with Ricotta Cheese – Teri Tsang Barrett for Bon Appetit (Pin It)
• How to Sprout Lentils – The Lean Green Bean (Pin It)
• 15 Healthy Recipes for the Grill – The Lean Green Bean (Pin It)
• Ready in Minutes Dinner: Saucy Tomato & Artichoke Chicken – FANNEtastic food (Pin It)
• Zucchini Crust Vegetarian Pizza Margherita – Kalyn’s Kitchen (Pin It)
• Quaker Chewy Chocolate Chip Protein Bars – iFOODreal (Pin It)
• Berry Banana Quinoa and Steel Cut Oats Breakfast Bake – iFoodReal (Pin It)
• Skinny Fried Egg and Avocado Toast – SimpleGreenMoms (Pin It)
• Sweet Potato Protein Pancakes – The Lean Green Bean (Pin It)
• A Sweet and Salty Breakfast You’ll Love – Women’s Health Magazine (Pin It)
• Cottage Cheese Pancakes with Blueberry Compote – Women’s Day (Pin It)
• Tired of Mealtime Battles? Deconstruct the Meals! – Tribeca Nutrition (Pin It)
• 10 One-Handed Snacks for New Moms – TheKitchn (Pin It)
• Almond Peanut Butter Balls – Lori Zanini (Pin It)
• Freezer Oatmeal Raisin Cookies – The Lean Green Bean (Pin It)
• Simple Summer Berry Crumble – According to Elle (Pin It)
• 21 Vegan Friendly Freezer Meals – Oh She Glows (Pin It)
• No Bake Peanut Butter “Cookies” with a Chocolate Drizzle – Edible Perspective (Pin It)
• Black Bean Walnut Brownies – Sharon Palmer (Pin It)

 Helpful Tweets:

• “Make-it-yourself trail mix! Mix air-popped popcorn, dark chocolate pieces & roasted nuts or chickpeas together for an easy & tasteful treat!” – @bnutritious
• “700 calorie breakfast + 500 calorie lunch + 200 calorie dinner more successful for weight loss than reverse” – @sweetfoodie
• “ACG updates recommendations for management of IBS, chronic idiopathic constipation incl. FODMAP diet, probiotics, psyllium fiber, hypnosis” – @sweetfoodie
• “Having trouble getting your to-dos done? The Timeful calendar app uses algorithms based on your daily patterns” -@sweetfoodie

The Week in Photos: I just returned from vacation on Nantucket Island – it’s a small island (105 square miles) 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts. To give you a sense of how calm it is there – there isn’t one stoplight on the whole island, just stop signs! There’s a beautiful town with cobblestone streets, ice cream and fudge shops and high-end stores for window shopping. My family lays low, doing puzzles, cooking, going out for fun dinners with lots of wine, and hitting the beach with books.

It felt like the right time and place to make a late summer berry and peach crisp, and since King Arthur Flour’s recipes never let me down, I went right to their site and pulled up a winner. My mom took the first bite while I was out and sent me this text: “OMG it’s the best thing I ever tasted. It’s unbelievable.” If that piques your interest, here’s the recipe (also linked up top).

Be well! See you for another mid-week lunch date next Wednesday!