I love St. Patty's Day. It's a holiday where people socialize and act genuinely happy. It doesn't matter if you have any Irish blood in you. It's more the spirit of the occasion.And in keeping with that spirit I called on my dear friend Sally Ketchum, Michigan's finest food writer, for a little taste of the Old Country -- recipes for Popover Pudding with Irish Bacon, Bird Flanagan Potato Pancakes, and Pride of Erin Soup.Feel free, of course, to wash the food down with a pint of Murphy's or Killian's... or maybe even Guinness!Okay Sally, so feed our minds about...

Special for DiettoGo.comby Cheryl Tallmanwww.FreshBaby.comYou may have heard people comment that lettuce is just empty calories. This is just not true. While iceberg lettuce is not a nutritional powerhouse, other salad greens are nutritional champions. As a general rule, the darker the leaves, the more nutritious the salad green. Just as an example, romaine and watercress have seven times as much beta-carotene, two to four times as much calcium and twice the amount of potassium as iceberg lettuce. By simply choosing a variety of salad greens you use in your salads, you can enhance the nutritional content and enjoy new...

Some would say I am blessed. Others would say I am cursed. You decide when I tell you that I don't crave sweets. I can live without them most of the time. But every once in a while I will go on a binge, eating ice cream or some Twizzlers or something similar. The rest of the time I can walk by them without a problem.Certainly I am not the average person when it comes to sweets. Most people have a weakness when it comes to sweets of some sort. How could you not enjoy a...

Dining out is no longer a luxury or treat. It's a fact of our busy life. When pressed for nutritional information, some servers at your favorite eateries will begrudgingly serve up a few numbers. The sad fact is many sit-down restaurants simply do not have that info available.So what's a determined dieter to do? Stick with boring old baked chicken and steamed veggies or throw caution to the wind and order whatever you want with the hopes that "it can't be that bad." Sorry, but it can be that bad... and even worse than you imagined.Making the Best ChoicesDiet-to-Go...

Did you know the average family of four in America wastes $600 worth of groceries a year? That's $50 a month! That's a tank of gas, y'all! Why is this, I wonder? Especially considering the current economic climate, why is this happening? What's going to waste? More likely than not, it's the fresh stuff we buy in our effort to be healthy. It's wilted lettuce, moldy green beans and flaccid carrots being dumped. It's all that wonderful spinach and other greens being tossed well past their prime. We buy it because we know we need to get our nutritional...

My name is Leanne and I’m a soup addict... I’m not kidding. I love, Love, LOVE soup. I dream about soup. I plot and scheme on how to get more soup into my day. I write about it, daydream about it, I’ve even made up sketchy poems up about it (one included here for your bewildered amusement). Seriously, this soup obsession of mine, well, it’s just a little over the top; even I can see it. See the thing is I don’t just care for soup; I’m fanatical about soup. Did I mention I’m obsessed with it?...