Articles filed under Mauer, Don

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  Tips for cooking favorite summer veggies Jul 5, 2011 12:00 AM
  What vegetable shouts summer? Corn tops my list. I can’t wait until Illinois corn shows up at local markets. I may not like the corn bits that stick between my teeth as I bite into a juicy ear, but it’s always worth it.
  

   

• Weighty journey to celebrate Jun 21, 2011 12:00 AM
  This month I celebrate the four-year anniversary for maintaining my 150-pound weight loss; a journey that began back in 2005. Losing the weight took me 20 months and although that took diligent perseverance, my weight loss turned out to be easier than keeping it off.
  

   

• Avocados part of healthy eating plan Jun 7, 2011 12:00 AM
  If I were the first person to see a ripe avocado, I would have passed it by. I just can’t imagine how an avocado, with its muddy-brown, alligator-like skin, enticed that first person to pluck it from a tree and take a bite. That person must have been starving or one card short of a deck. Avocados just don’t look that appealing.
  

   
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  Diet soda conundrum Jun 2, 2011 12:00 AM
  Earlier this year I saw articles about a possible connection between diet soda and weight issues. Seriously? How could no-calorie, artificially sweetened soft drinks possibly make me fat?
  

   

• Web of online healthy cooking sites May 10, 2011 12:00 AM
  Boy do I love the Internet. Long after I’ve recycled my favorite magazines, the content lives on online, giving me 24/7 access to information that can help me eat well and stay on my weight-management plan with the click of a mouse.
  

   

• First, read those yogurt labels Apr 26, 2011 12:00 AM
  Who knew that the marginally popular homemade plain yogurt I grew up with, like the stuff Grandma Mauer made from scratch from whole milk without the aid of a fancy yogurt machine would, decades later, become so wildly successful?
  

   

• Indian-style Yogurt Marinade for ChickenApr 26, 2011 12:00 AM
  chicken and yogurt
  

   

• Comfort food can be lean Apr 12, 2011 12:00 AM
  A low-fat, lower-calorie cookbook gets my heart beating a little faster when it includes complete nutritional information, teaches me new ways of making my recipes healthier, showcases meals I’d make without requiring unique hard-to-find ingredients, every recipe’s been thoroughly tested and it includes loads of pictures.
  

   

• Don weighs in on the benefits of scales Mar 29, 2011 12:00 AM
  Two of the most important tools I own that helped me lose weight and make sure it stays off: one's a bathroom scale; the other's my kitchen scale. In 1990 when I first lost more than 100 pounds, a once-a-week weigh-in monitored my progress. Up until that time, having been over-weight for years, scales were not my friend.
  

   

• Cut, temperature key to midweek pot roastMar 15, 2011 12:00 AM
  Throughout a tough winter like we've just had, I spend some of my indoor time considering comfort food. Most of my favorite comfort foods warm my kitchen and take time to prepare, which can be perfect for any chilly weather, even early spring's.
  

   

• Natural salts worth their, uh, salt Mar 1, 2011 12:00 AM
  Salt enhances almost every food it touches, even chocolate-covered caramels topped with a few gray sea salt grains taste better; sweeter. I hear you: "Wait a second Don, isn't salt this year's nutritional bad boy?"
  

   
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  Lean and lovin’ it: Meat’s on the menu Feb 15, 2011 12:00 AM
  For this lean guy, meat's a dinner-time mainstay. Turning to chicken makes that meal easy since the USDA's poultry nutritional information could not be more precise: one 4-ounce boneless, skinless chicken breast delivers 129 calories and 2.9 fat grams; well under 30-percent fat calories.
  

   

• Low-fat foodies for chocolate Feb 1, 2011 12:00 AM
  Are you a low-fat foodie who loves chocolate? I sure am. Unfortunately, chocolate returns that love with fat and calories. For example, an ounce of Hershey's milk chocolate delivers 152 calories and 8.4 fat grams.
  

   

• Lean and lovin' it column by Don Mauer: Expounding the benefits of a Mediterranean diet Jan 18, 2011 12:00 AM
  We've all read that forming a food plan around the way Mediterranean folks live can mean healthy eating. But, what goes into a Mediterranean diet? If you say a Mediterranean diet includes fresh fruits and vegetables, you're correct. If you include whole grains, nuts and seeds, again, you'd be right.
  

   
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  Simple strategies for weight-loss successJan 4, 2011 12:00 AM
  If you’re like some folks, the moment 2011 arrived you found your new holiday sweater, the one that felt a touch snug on first wearing, now seems even tighter and it hasn’t been washed yet. If you’re considering re-gifting that sweater, instead of losing some weight, keep reading.
  

   

• Cookbooks for gift giving Dec 7, 2010 12:00 AM
  The holiday's are almost here and since I love cookbooks they are the first gifts I consider for friends and family. Here are the 2010 releases that made my good-for-giving list. “Skinny Dips: 60 Recipes for Dips, Spreads, Chips, and Salsa on the Lighter Side of Delicious” by Diane Morgan (Chronicle Books, $18.95) could, by its size alone, be considered a stocking stuffer. Morgan's hardcover book may be slim in size, but it's packed with terrific recipes, nutrition info and color pictures.
  

   
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  Healthful recipes come to the Thanksgiving tableNov 21, 2010 12:00 AM
  How times have changed. In 1990, Thanksgiving made me uneasy. Not about getting together with my family. No. That year I'd lost more than 100 pounds for the first time and Thanksgiving dinner triggered the start of a food-centric race running for the next six weeks. T-Day 1990 marked the single toughest meal I'd faced that year.
  

   

• Kick-the-Can Roast ChickenNov 9, 2010 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• You can make beer-can chicken sans the canNov 9, 2010 12:00 AM
  If you've ever made or eaten a beer-can grilled chicken you know that it's one well-flavored, moist, smoke-scented chicken. Some backyard grilling gurus I know rarely make anything else on their grills.
  

   

• Ward off dining diet busters Oct 26, 2010 12:00 AM
  If you've ever headed to a restaurant's website to check on the calorie and fat content of menu items you know that some restaurants (like McDonald's and Applebee's) make the info easy to find. Other restaurants, even after serious searching, leave you right where you started. At least The Cheesecake Factory site cuts you off at the pass with this note: “At this time, we do not provide nutritional information for our menu selections on our website.” Don't expect to discover the answers on the in-restaurant menus either.