Growing your own vegetables helps budget and health
Q: Is it really economical to grow my own vegetables?
-Diana Magallan, Paso Robles
A: Master Gardeners are frequently asked, "Does it really pay to grow my own fruits and vegetables?" Home vegetable gardening does pay, according to a series of university trials that coincided with recent recessions in the U. S. economy.
During 1980 for example, two Florida researchers named Stephens and Carter, along with the Jacksonville Urban Garden Program, developed a 20-by-29- foot garden in an abandoned parking lot. The garden was planted from seed and seedlings and produced 24 varieties of vegetables and six herbs. The total cost to establish the garden was just over $83. They tracked about 68 hours in labor, and with the minimum wage at $3.10 found labor costs of about $210. Based on the 1980 prices at local grocery stores the garden harvest was worth $416. So this garden, about the size of most American vegetable gardens, saved $122. While the minimum wage has increased about 2½ times since 1980, so has the retail price of many vegetables, including those in the Jacksonville garden.
Keep in mind that the value in dollars for a vegetable can reflect a high price per pound or a high yield of vegetables you eat frequently. Asparagus is one of those higher-priced vegetables, and the UCCE Master Gardeners can provide you with information on growing it in our local area.
Is all that work really worth $122, or $305 in today's dollars? Don't forget to add in the value of the exercise gardening provides, the connection to sustaining nature and the environment, healthy eating habits and fewer trips to the grocery store. As you start the new year, and your new vegetable garden plans, remember that the Master Gardeners are available to help you enjoy the direct benefits of growing your own vegetables, and help your health and budget as well..
Contact the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners at 781-5939 from 1 to 5 p. m. on Monday and Thursday; at 473-7190 from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. in Arroyo Grande; and at 434-4105 from 9 a. m. to noon on Wednesday in Templeton. Visit the UCCE Master Gardeners Web site at groups. ucanr.org/slomg/or e-mail mgsanluisobispo@ucdavis.edu.
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Love Your Heart
“Love Your Heart”
Date: Wednesday Februrary 18, 2009
Time: arrive by 11:45 program from Noon to 1:00 PM
Location: Voce’ Ristorante
9719 North Hayden Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85258
Join us for a heart healthy lunch
and
“The Heart of the Matter” DVD
Tamara M. Sachs, M.D.
Home: Washington, Connecticut. Specialities: Internal Medicine, Functional Medicine, and Integrative Care. Education: Graduated with honors in 1985 from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine in 1988 at Saint Raphael Hospital and Yale University in New Haven, CT. Current Position: Private practice in Functional Medicine and Integrative Care Professional Service: Served on the Scientific Advisory Board of Women Heart-the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease. Past member of the Multidisciplinary Committee for Cancer Care for the Regional Cancer Center of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Past Chairman of the Collaborative Practice Committee and member of the Ethics Committee at New Milford Hospital. Frequent lecturer in the U.S. and Canada on the topics of heart disease, toxicology, and therapeutic nutrition.
R.S.V.P. Sherry Fritz 866-508-2910 sherry@sherryfritz.com
Attendees will receive a FREE CD of this presentation
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Sherry's Eating Plan
With Juice Plus+®:
Juice Plus+® Complete for Breakfast and lunch. Juice Plus+® Thins between meals, drink 8 glasses of filtered water (at least! Drink more if you are exercising, drinking coffee or alcohol) and take Juice Plus+® fruits, veggies and vineyard blend capsules.
Plan two healthy snacks: apple, or fresh, raw veggies
Eat a healthy dinner by 6 pm. Lean meat, steamed vegetable.
Limit the Five White Poisons: White bread, pasta, rice, sugar, milk, and salt
Do NOT eat any diet foods such as low fat, sugar free, processed anything!
Consuming even one diet soda a day will increase your chances of diabetes by 40%!
Do NOT eat any sugar substitutes! They will increase your cravings and therefore sugar consumption, sabatoge your healthy eating and add pounds in the long run!
www.sherryfritz.com
Juice Plus+® Complete for Breakfast and lunch. Juice Plus+® Thins between meals, drink 8 glasses of filtered water (at least! Drink more if you are exercising, drinking coffee or alcohol) and take Juice Plus+® fruits, veggies and vineyard blend capsules.
Plan two healthy snacks: apple, or fresh, raw veggies
Eat a healthy dinner by 6 pm. Lean meat, steamed vegetable.
Limit the Five White Poisons: White bread, pasta, rice, sugar, milk, and salt
Do NOT eat any diet foods such as low fat, sugar free, processed anything!
Consuming even one diet soda a day will increase your chances of diabetes by 40%!
Do NOT eat any sugar substitutes! They will increase your cravings and therefore sugar consumption, sabatoge your healthy eating and add pounds in the long run!
www.sherryfritz.com
Five Ways to Stop "Mindless Eating"
From the book, "SuperCharge for the WINNING EDGE" by America's Personal Trainer, Jack Medina
FIVE WAYS TO STOP "MINDLESS EATING"
Why do Americans overeat? How can they stop? These questions have been the life study of Brian Wansink, Ph.D., director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab in Ithaca, New York. He pioneered the field of food psychology, and for the past 20 years has studied Americans and their eating habits, specifically those characteristics he terms "mindless eating."
The #1 Reason We Eat Too Much
According to Dr. Wansink, the #1 reason we eat too much is because we use external cues, such as seeing no more food around us, rather than internal cues, such as feeling full, to tell us to stop eating. We have lost a vital connection with our bodies.
The Cues that Skew
Here are some of Dr. Wansink's findings and five ways we can stop mindless eating dead in its tracks:
1. Don't clear the dishes until the end of the meal, and avoid eating out of the bag or carton. This will make it easier to see and track how much you have already eaten.
2. The bigger the meal, the less accurate our calorie estimation is. For a large meal such as Thanksgiving, don't try to estimate the calories of the whole meal. Estimate calories for each individual serving you consumed.
3. Anything that takes our focus off the food we are eating makes us more likely to overeat. Don't eat in front of the TV! Sit down at the table and enjoy your meal without distractions.
4. Size matters: the larger the plate, serving bowl, packaged box, serving utensil -- the more we'll eat! Mini size your bowls, plates, and utensils!
5. The more variety there is, the more we eat. Use this principal to your advantage by serving a wide variety of fruits and vegetables -- you'll eat more of them. Also, keep the salad and veggies on the table, and leave the meat and starches on the stove -- the more convenient a food is, the more of it we'll eat.
BONUS: Cut out about 100-200 calories per day is not noticeable and amounts to only for of five fewer bites dished onto your plate AND it translates to losing 10 to 20 pounds per year!
The complete Mindless Eating book and CD are now available on Amazon.com. We recommend it as one of the best tools you can use to learn about healthy behavior change related to foods.
When it comes to healthy eating, what to eat is just as important as how to eat. Nutripoints clears up the confusion of reading labels and counting calories, because the system has tracked 26 key nutrients that yield a Nutripoint score for every food -- the higher the score, the better. So just choose from the highest rated foods you love to eat at least 100 Nutripoints every day!
www.nutripoints.com
www.jackmedina.com
www.sherryfritz.com
FIVE WAYS TO STOP "MINDLESS EATING"
Why do Americans overeat? How can they stop? These questions have been the life study of Brian Wansink, Ph.D., director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab in Ithaca, New York. He pioneered the field of food psychology, and for the past 20 years has studied Americans and their eating habits, specifically those characteristics he terms "mindless eating."
The #1 Reason We Eat Too Much
According to Dr. Wansink, the #1 reason we eat too much is because we use external cues, such as seeing no more food around us, rather than internal cues, such as feeling full, to tell us to stop eating. We have lost a vital connection with our bodies.
The Cues that Skew
Here are some of Dr. Wansink's findings and five ways we can stop mindless eating dead in its tracks:
1. Don't clear the dishes until the end of the meal, and avoid eating out of the bag or carton. This will make it easier to see and track how much you have already eaten.
2. The bigger the meal, the less accurate our calorie estimation is. For a large meal such as Thanksgiving, don't try to estimate the calories of the whole meal. Estimate calories for each individual serving you consumed.
3. Anything that takes our focus off the food we are eating makes us more likely to overeat. Don't eat in front of the TV! Sit down at the table and enjoy your meal without distractions.
4. Size matters: the larger the plate, serving bowl, packaged box, serving utensil -- the more we'll eat! Mini size your bowls, plates, and utensils!
5. The more variety there is, the more we eat. Use this principal to your advantage by serving a wide variety of fruits and vegetables -- you'll eat more of them. Also, keep the salad and veggies on the table, and leave the meat and starches on the stove -- the more convenient a food is, the more of it we'll eat.
BONUS: Cut out about 100-200 calories per day is not noticeable and amounts to only for of five fewer bites dished onto your plate AND it translates to losing 10 to 20 pounds per year!
The complete Mindless Eating book and CD are now available on Amazon.com. We recommend it as one of the best tools you can use to learn about healthy behavior change related to foods.
When it comes to healthy eating, what to eat is just as important as how to eat. Nutripoints clears up the confusion of reading labels and counting calories, because the system has tracked 26 key nutrients that yield a Nutripoint score for every food -- the higher the score, the better. So just choose from the highest rated foods you love to eat at least 100 Nutripoints every day!
www.nutripoints.com
www.jackmedina.com
www.sherryfritz.com
Thursday, January 8, 2009
The 90 Day Fitness Challenge
Hello!
This is your blog spot to be accountable, log your work outs, ask for support!
Let me hear from you! How are you doing?
Sherry
www.getfitandfab.com
www.juiceplusfitnesseffect.com
This is your blog spot to be accountable, log your work outs, ask for support!
Let me hear from you! How are you doing?
Sherry
www.getfitandfab.com
www.juiceplusfitnesseffect.com
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