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So much healthier than Top Ramen! Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Eating Ramen at Home Who didn't get through college eating Top Ramen? As I now look at the nutritional information on the back, I'm amazed we all survived! Assuming the entire package was consumed (who eats half a block of ramen), here's what you get: Top Ramen (one package of Oriental Flavor) 380 calories 14 g of fat, 7 g saturated 1600 mg sodium And these lovely ingredients: Wheat flour, Palm Oil, Salt, Calcium Silicate, Caramel Color, Citric Acid, Disodium Guanylate, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Succinate, Dried Leek Flake, Garlic Powder, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Maltodextrin, MSG, Onion Powder, Potassium Carbonate, Sodium Alginate, Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Soybean, Spice, TBHQ, Wheat. This looks more like a chemistry experiment than food! Along Comes Lotus Foods Although this is still a processed food with very little whole grain, Lotus Foods Rice Ramen addresses a ...

Use your Instant Pot for perfect breakfast potatoes. Make a healthier breakfast for your Valentine! Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Breakfast Potatoes I must have been Irish in another lifetime because I adore potatoes. Baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, boiled potatoes, and especially fried breakfast potatoes. Fried breakfast potatoes, however, can take a lot of oil with added calories. They also take a long time to cook, and who has that kind of time in the morning? But the Instant Pot comes to the rescue to help with both of these problems.  So if your want to make your Valentine some healthy fried breakfast potatoes to go with a tofu scramble or his favorite egg dish, here's a quick recipe for the potatoes. You can always jazz this recipe up by frying some onions or peppers before you add the potatoes, but I like my potatoes as they are. To save even more time in the morning, you can make the Instant Pot potatoes the night before, refrigerate them, and fry...

No Instant Pot? Download my eBook,  Health Begins in the Kitchen, for vegan Thanksgiving Recipe ideas and Menus you can make without an Instant Pot. Available on Amazon and iTunes . Instant Pot - a Needed Helper for Holiday Cooking If you're like most families, your oven and all the burners are busy when cooking for the holidays, especially on Thanksgiving. What better time to have an Instant Pot to lend a helping hand. I've got two! Here are a few healthy, low-calorie Instant Pot recipes you might want to consider for your holiday meals. Except for the Farro recipe, they are also gluten free. Start with Soup I have two takes on soup. The first is one that's casual, served in a mug and handed to your guests in the kitchen while everyone is cooking. To do this, you need a brothy soup, like this Instant Pot Butternut Squash Soup   that I blogged earlier this week. At only 117 calories, this won't many calories to your meal. Of course, the other take on soup is to serve ...

Curry-flavored, blended soup featuring kabocha squash. Follow Foods For Long Life on  Facebook and Pinterest . Check out my eBook, Health Begins in the Kitchen . Harvest Time I harvested my mini-kabocha squash and potatoes and still have a few zucchini left on the vine so I thought I'd combine them in this tasty soup. Kabocha adds a lovely sweetness to the soup and the potatoes make it creamy and thick. The soup is lightly flavored with curry. Mini kabocha squash Purple and gold potatoes Ingredients for Curried Kabocha Squash, Potato, and Zucchini Soup.                  *                                  *                                 * Curried Kabocha Squash, Potato and Zucchini Soup Vegetarian or Vegan, Gluten Free [Makes 4 servings] Requirements Soup pot Blender o...

Potatoes and kale make an easy side dish in your Instant Pot Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Download my eBook, Health Begins in the Kitchen! Potatoes and Kale I am starting to harvest my potatoes - see my post, How to Grow your Own Potatoes . Since I still have lots of lovely kale in the garden, I thought I'd make a recipe using kale and my tender new potatoes. Sliced Magic Molly and Pinto Gold new potatoes. Studies show a link between the consumption of purple potatoes and the reduction of diastolic and systolic blood pressure. Here's a quick recipe using my Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker .                                                 *                                *                       ...

This creamy soup is dairy free and only 200 calories a bowl. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . It's Asparagus Time! Asparagus is starting to show up in local markets and I couldn't be happier. Most of the time I just roast them in the oven and serve them over a green salad or as a side dish, but today I was in the mood for soup.  Here's a simple recipe that you can make in your Instant Pot Pressure Cooker or in a Dutch Oven or medium-size soup pot on the stove.             *                    *                      *                          * Asparagus Soup Vegan, Dairy Free, Gluten Free [makes 4 servings] Requirements Instant Pot Pressure Cooker (optional) Hand Immersion blender Ingredients 1 bunch asparagus (1 1/4 pounds) 1/2 pound leeks 1 tablespoon Ea...

Vegan tapioca is delicious and easy to make! Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest. Can't Live without my Instant Pot I honestly can say that the Instant Pot pressure cooker has changed the way my husband and I cook. We use it in the morning to make oatmeal. We use it to cook at least one dish at every meal. And now, we use it to make tapioca. But before I go into that, let me talk about Jill Nussinow (the Veggie Queen). I met Jill about 5 years ago at a vegan potluck at the Sonoma Humane Society. She was giving a demonstration on how to use an electric pressure cooker. I had an old stovetop pressure cooker that had been gathering dust in the back of my closet for at least 10 years, so I wasn't convinced I'd ever use another one. It actually took me a few more years before I broke down and bought an Instant Pot but now I can hardly imagine my life without one. Jill Nussinow, The Veggie Queen The biggest challenge in using a pressure cooker, is to know how l...

Whipped sweet potatoes in 4 minutes! Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest. Reasons To Eat Sweet Potatoes Besides being one of my favorites foods to eat, it is also one of the healthiest. Here are some reasons you should frequently include these in your diet. #1 - Sweet potatoes are one of the best food sources of beta-carotene with the ability to raise our blood levels of vitamin A. Vitamin A is critical for healthy skin, mucus membranes, good vision, and a strong immune system. To boost the absorption of beta-carotene, always eat sweet potatoes with some fat. #2 - They are rich in anthocyanin and other color-related phytonutrients. These compounds have strong anti-inflammatory properties . Animal studies demonstrate the reduction of inflammation in brain and nerve tissue after the consumption of sweet potatoes.  #3 - In spite of their medium glycemic index and being a starchy food, sweet potatoes can potentially improve blood sugar regulation, even in ...