Noshtopia

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Description: Noshtopia is a food blog about eating wellness featuring light meals, healthy eating tips, snacks, ideas, recipes, and organics. Tips include raw, vegan, vegetarian, and omnivore.

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Mix & Bake: Lemon Poppyseed Walnut Scones

Sticky Fingers Bakeries makes one of the best mix and bake scone mixes. To make these Lemon Poppyseed scones all you need to do is add water, mix, and bake. Simple! To make my scones a little ...

1 day ago

Snack Idea: Organic Popcorn Sprinkled With Sweet Kim Nori and Sea Salt

Heres one of our favorite snacks that is so easy to make. Pop a bag of organic popcorn. Sprinkle on top some sea salt and Seas Gift Korean Seaweed Snack Sweet Kim Nori. You can find individual...

5 days ago

What Can We Make With Fridge Leftovers? Bacon Fried Rice With Sauteed Magda Squash

Today was one of those days where I know food is low but I dont feel like going to the store because Im in ponytail and sweats and frankly feeling lazy. So, I take a peek into the fridge to se...

08 feb 12

10 Healthy and Allergy-Friendly Super Bowl Snack Ideas Including Gluten-free and Vegan Beers

Super Bowl Sunday is one of the biggest nosh days of the year. In fact, according to a Wall Street Journal post about game day food, baby carrot sales spike 25% on Super Bowl Sunday, 71 million pound...

02 feb 12

Quick Veggies: Sauteed Baby Bok Choy Slaw

Baby bok choy is one of my favorite vegetables and Whole Foods was having a sale on organic baby bok choy so I made up this recipe on the fly using other ingredients I found in the W...

01 feb 12

Superfood Dessert: Homemade Vegan Acai Berry FroYo Topped With Kiwi, Cranberries, and Walnuts

Who knew a supererfood could look this luscious. At my local Whole Foods, Sambazon was promoting their organic Acai Berry smoothie packs, and OMG! I was blown away. The demonstrator made a simple ble...

27 jan 12

Purple Vegetables Are Cool And Help Fight Disease

Lately, I have developed an utter fascination with purple vegetables and fruits. I am most enchanted with the purple vegetables like this beautiful kale, bell pepper, and cauliflower I found at the S...

27 jan 12

What We Can Learn From Paula Deen Coming Clean About Having Type II Diabetes

I am a fan of Paula Deen. I know that may seem odd given that I am all about healthy eating and on a bad day Anthony Bourdain proclaimed her "the most dangerous person in America" beca...

18 jan 12

Garlic, Rosemary, Sage Croutons That Are Gluten-free, Soy-free, Vegan And Taste Crunchtastic

I cant begin to tell you how excited I am about this recipe I made up for croutons. Im about as excited as when I made these crunchy gluten-free and egg-free baked coconut chicken nuggets! For Christ...

11 jan 12

The Year in Food 2012 on Instagram

I love doing challenges! I have never tried to do anything for a year long before, so I decided that since I really love taking food shots on my iPhone I am going to take at least one photo everyday ...

09 jan 12

Yumminess: Chocolate Chip Cookies Gluten-Free, Soy-Free, Vegan, and Gum-Free

Hello cookies and rice milk! @jenmyronuk is excellent at finding sweet treats that are allergy-friendly for us. I was most excited when she introduced me to these Adean Dream Quinao Cookies that are ...

20 dec 11

Down Time: Taking a Mini Blog Break

Hi all just wanted to let you know I have not gone anywhere. Its time for a blog break from Noshtopia. I wont be gone from the web though. Ill be doing some more writing at my personal blog. Im feeli...

08 feb 11

Healthy Lunch Idea: Pasta With Pesto

For our Meatless Monday healthy lunch idea, try some of your favorite pasta with pesto sauce. Try a gluten-free pasta if you can. Trader Joes makes some of the best GF pastas out of brown rice. The c...

31 jan 11

I Got Punkd: These Veggie Skewers Look So Real

I was at a Whole Foods in Chandler, and I was walking past their Japanese food station when I saw these grilled veggies skewers. I got excited and actually put my nose up close to smell them only to ...

28 jan 11

Healthy Lunch Idea: Thai Panang Curry With Grilled Beef Over Brown Rice

I enjoy Thai curry because its on the soupier side and the aromatic spice usage is milder compared to Indian curry. Panang curry is also sweeter to me and I tend to the sweeter side. Beef is not norm...

27 jan 11

Eye Opening: Our Relationship With Sugar Doesnt Seem To Have Improved in Half a Decade

Continuing in our week long celebration of Jack LaLanne, here is a 3min clip where Jack does get a bit preachy about sugarholics saying they are just as worse as alcoholics...in that both are consumi...

27 jan 11

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Welcome To My Blended Eating World: Meatballs and Vegan Pizza at Mellow Mushroom

Before we get to the vegan pizza and meatballs, shall we take a moment to gawk at a mini tower of pizzas. Two are vegetarian and the other two have meat. Ummmm-yeah! When I go to restaurants, I often...

26 jan 11

What Fuel Do You Put In Your Body?

Continuing our celebration week of Jack LaLanne, in this 3min. video clip from his show, Jack talks about the importance of the "fuel" you put into the machine that is your body. Such simple ...

26 jan 11

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5 Noshy Things You Can Eat With Avocado

One of the best sources for healthy fat is the avocado. Let me tell you that avocado is another one of those veggies I get excited about because its so versatile, creamy, and warming. From fantastic ...

25 jan 11

Jack LaLanne Encouraged Us To Eat More Whole Foods

This week, starting yesterday with our fresh juice toast, were going to spend each day celebrating the life of Jack LaLanne, a man who had so much impact on my views on health and wellness. In my opi...

25 jan 11

In Honor of Jack LaLanne, Drink a Glass of Fresh Juice Today

One of my all-time favorite health role models, Jack Lalanne passed away yesterday at the age of 96 at his home in Morro Bay in California. Honestly, they dont make em like Jack Lalanne any more. Tha...

24 jan 11

Healthy Lunch Idea (Two Examples): Fresh Beet Salad

Beets are one of my top 5 favorite vegetables...and Im talking fresh beets here, not that stringy kind drenched in juice you find in a can. If that canned version of beets is the only version you hav...

24 jan 11

Healthy Lunch Idea: Rosemary Chicken With Red Pepper & Potato Pasty

On the PBS food show I was on "Check Please Arizona," one of the places I had to go visit was Cornish PastyR. For those not familiar, a pasty is a filled pastry commonly associated with Cornw...

20 jan 11

Tried Something New: Braised Chard With Bacon

How can you make bacon healthy? By mixing it up with a leafy green like chard! See oh yummy! Okay...well maybe not....adding a green wont make bacon better, but the bacon sure can help make the chard...

20 jan 11

Surprising: At McDonalds Milk Has a Whopping Amount of Sodium Compared to Coke

When it comes to drinks, most people focus on the calories and sugar but not really the sodium numbers. Its equally important to be concerned with daily sodium intake because too much salt intake can...

19 jan 11

Were On TV: PBS Check Please Arizona

I was very honored to be one of three guests on the local Phoenix PBS show Check Please Arizona where we suggested our favorite restaurant, and then checked out the restaurant choices of the other tw...

19 jan 11

Photo: Is It a Fig or a Radish?

One of the reasons I am addicted to love Dr. Andrew Weils True Food Kitchen here in Scottsdale is that you can always find unique and locally sourced vegetables in their dishes. Last week, for appeti...

18 jan 11

5 Noshy Things You Can Eat With Shrimp

One of my go-to shrimp dishes is Gambas Al Ajillo which is a Spanish tapas dish inspired from the Huelva region of Spain like this one in the photo above from one of my favorite Phoenix restaurants, ...