Category: Breakfast
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Understanding Carbo-Loading for Race Day Success

When you think about preparing for a big race, you probably picture clocking miles, fine-tuning your running form, and maybe obsessing over which shoes will make you feel most like a cheetah. But there’s one critical part of race prep that doesn’t involve hitting the pavement: carbo-loading. That’s right, strategically consuming carbohydrates is like…
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Mastering Marathon Nutrition: Gels, Waffles, Beans, Chews, and Real Food-A Culinary Journey

Fuel training for a long runs like marathon, ultra marathon or Ironman is not just walking up and getting the feed bag on, you have to experiment or you will not like the end result of the meal. Nothing worse than abdominal distress at mile 20, when all you were worried about ‘the wall’. The…
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Scratch Cooking: A Simple way to Holistic Health for Families and Children

Let me say before you read this article, that I understand that preparing meals takes time from your busy day. Especially if you have children involved in activities and take up time with transportation, spectating and coaching. This is not an attempt to nutrition shame or lecture the reader. It is to help open your…
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Bone Broth: Liquid Superhero

Bone broth has been a part of cooking since man has been able to make fire. As a chef, it has been an integral part of creating soups, sauces and rich demi-glace. It was rare that we did not have a pot of bones simmering for the next batch of bone broth, in our…

