About: Cindy Brison MS RD LMNT

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Nutritional Clutter

It’s spring cleaning time again.  This is when we are encouraged to clean our homes and remove clutter/build-up from the long winter.  Hopefully you are not a candidate for the hoarders shows t hat are on TV now!  Stuff can build up.  When this happens, it’s hard to get motivated to do anything.  It’s the same way with trying to get in shape.  It gets overwhelming—and where do you start?  It’s easier to go home and plop on the couch and 
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Cooking with Kids and Snow Days!

The forecast is for 6-10 inches of snow and ice—and I know I will be home with the kids again.  Welcome to February in Nebraska!  You can only let them watch so many movies and eventually they run out of homework.  One project all of my kids have gotten into is cooking.  They WILL learn how to feed themselves so that when they move out, they will not live in a drive-thru.  I am really not worried.  They all like
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Are Canned Foods Nutritious for My Family?

by Roberta Duyff, MS RD FADA Quick and convenient: more than 1500 varieties of canned foods appear on today's supermarket shelves: traditional fare, along with a variety of nutritionally positioned products – for example, sodium-free, low-fat, no-added-sugar and others. Some benefits:
  • Long shelf life. Canned fruits and vegetables are preservative-free; the canning process (high temperatures and sterile containers) destroys organisms that would cause spoilage. Canned food remains safe as long as the container remains intact. Although most canned foods are coded
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