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January Cooking Club Challenge – Thinking Healthy!
Rate it! Votes (3) | Comments (5) By FabulousFoods.com Posted January 3rd, 2009

So many people are trying to eat right, move more, and improve health – especially at this time of year and considering the holiday bacchanalias we all just survived. Losing weight has to be the most prolific New Years resolution.

So with that in mind, this month’s Cooking Club challenge, and prize package, is designed to help you achieve those most worthwhile goals.

When it comes to eating right and/or dieting, everyone has their favorite “staples” – the foods or recipes you depend upon and go back to again and again. It might be your favorite salad, or a favorite brand of breakfast cereal, or a dessert that satisfies your sweet tooth without breaking your daily allotment of calories and/or fat and carb grams.

For this month’s challenge, we want to hear about your favorite healthy recipes and/or foods.

There are two ways to enter and be eligible for this month’s prize package giveaway.

1. Submit your own original healthy eating recipe to FabulousFoods.com. To do this you will need to become a site member if you’re not already (registration is fast and free).  Click the “submit a recipe link” in the drop down menu for the "Toolbox" in the navigation bar at the top of any page at FabulousFoods.com and fill out the form. Be sure to mention that you are submitting the recipe as part of the Cooking Club Challenge in the “Author’s Notes” field. If you have your own blog and/or website, be sure to include this in the notes field too, so we can link to it and also let folks know about it in our event end wrap-up.  Don't worry about details like the :tag fields," a live person edits each recipe before publication.

2. If your favorite healthy eating and/or diet staple foods are brand names (or more of an idea than an actual recipe), just let us know about them in the comments section below on this page. Again, you will have to be a registered site member to enter comments (and so we can contact you if your name is chosen for the giveaway).

Deadline to participate in this month’s Cooking Club Challenge is midnight Pacific time January 31, 2009.

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This Month’s Giveaway
As always, one lucky Cooking Club participant will be chosen at random to receive the giveaway package. This month’s gift package is worth over $135.00 and includes a library of five popular health and diet books (so you can find a plan that works well for you), and some of Watkins favorite health products, including bottles of Red and White Liniments to help with sore muscles after workouts, as well as travel packs of Menthol-Camphor salve (perfect for cold season) and the all-purpose first aid Petro-Carbo salve.

Books included in this giveaway package include:

• Cholesterol Down: 10 Simple Steps to Lower Your Cholesterol in 4 Weeks Without Prescription Drugs by Janet Brill Bond, Ph.D, R.D., LDN
  
• Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Diet: The Simplest Way to Lose Weight by Peter H. Gott, MD
• Eat Right For Your Metabolism: How the Right Foods for Your Type Can Help You Lose Weight by Felicia Drury Kliment
  
• Sugarbusters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat by H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, M.D., Sam S. Andrews, M. D., and Luis A. Balart, M.D.
  
• The Ultimate New York Diet: The Fastest Way to a Trimmer You by David Kirsch (foreword by Dr. Mehmet C. Oz)
  
  

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	Crystal -- Junk Food Isn't Cheap Written by: Rowan Thursday, 22 January 2009
	You are so right.  Junk food is not cheap!  You can certainly get some inexpensive junk food, although a lot of it isn't (a value meal at McDonald's is no less than a coffee shop meal these days).  But then there's the added costs of what it does to your health and our environment (too much packaging, food being trucked great distances, chopping down the rainforest to feed the cattle, etc. etc. Anyone trying o break a junk food addiction should 1. Read and rent Fast Food Nation (the book is better, but you'll get the idea with the movie) 2.  Rent Super-Size Me.
	Rowan- A well stocked pantry Written by: Chrystal Oates Thursday, 22 January 2009
	I have started doing this. Another good tip is to only shop with a shopping list. Then all the little extras don't end up in the cart. Its amazing how much cheaper my recent trips have been. My excuse before was its cheaper to eat the junk food. But its really not.
	A Well Stocked Pantry Written by: Rowan Thursday, 22 January 2009
	I find that keeping my pantry stocked with healthy foods that allow me to a wide variety of dishes at the drop of a hat helps.  If I have to go out to the store, I run into temptation.  Also, if I don't have what I need to cook on hand, I'm more prone to eat out, which allows results in too many calories.
	Weight Watchers Written by: Chrystal Oates Thursday, 22 January 2009
	I have been doing weight watchers to try and break all of my addictions to junk food. Its a plus that I am getting to a healthy weight. I have learned so much about cooking healthy. So now my husband and I are eating in instead of out. So he is getting healthy too. We want our infant son when he grows up to enjoy a wide range of food. I have tried so many great new things sine being on ww. I tried a pomegranate yesterday. After I looked up how to eat it. I have a blog where I share everything. The blog address is: http://chrystaloates.blogspot.com/ The name of my blog is: A new baby, a new house, a new year, and a new me!
	Miso Soup Written by: Cheri Sicard Sunday, 04 January 2009
	Even though I am not eligible for the prize, I'll get the ball rolling here with a healthy eating idea I picked up while working in Japan for extended periods of time.  Miso soup is served at most meals, including breakfast.  I found this to be a light, low calorie and healthy way to start the day, that's also surprisingly filling.  I dress up the basic broth with tofu and sometimes a few veggies as well, and my day is good to go.

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