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Nutritional Cooking  Living this conflicting era is a challenge. With news broadcasts telling us that pollinators are declining, the availability of food is threatened, budgets are getting tighter while prices of food climb and all the while experts tell us obtain nutrition from food. Getting the most out of the budget we are spending on food has fast become a priority.  Cooking with nutrition in mind is the focus of our cookbook: From One Small Garden - Over 300 Delicious Nutritious Recipes . Despite common belief, it can be pretty simple to provide a healthy menu plan without a lot of extra shopping and spending. In fact, you can save quite a bit of money simply by being a little craftier and less wasteful. Let's start with the most common mistake, over-cooking. Over-cooking vegetables or any food for that matter dramatically reduces the nutrients. Therefore, choose to steam vegetables, rather than boiling them, and cook gently, so that the veggies still have texture and ar...

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Dee Doan es is the author of the paranormal mystery fiction book, The Man With the Green Suitcase . She’s active in several charities and conducts a youth poetry workshop for the Atlanta Writers Club Youth Writing Camp, and is the former co-chair of the Writing in the Schools Program for Georgia Writers. I asked Dee to tell us a little about herself and this is what she had to say: “ I’m Dee Doanes, a writer and healthy food and healthy living enthusiast.   Most people know I’m a writer but I’m also a life-long healthy food enthusiast. Or, as some close friends call me, “a health food nut.” Writing is important but eating healthy is even more important. Without eating healthy food on a regular basis you don’t have good health, which affects everything in your life, including the creativity of a writer. It makes sense for writers to eat healthy foods to increase creativity so they can tell their wonderful tales.” www.deedoanes.com Writers Can Boost Creativity By E...