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Who would not like to be able to keep slim, even lose excess weight, while eating favorite foods. Adding the right foods can help you lose weight, how good is that.

You can easily rewrite your holiday leftover characters with a little help.

Orchestrate the repeat meals so you are sure of having the right ingredients and sufficient amounts for the second performance.

We all hate to love holiday meals because they can be a low carb diet disaster and many of us can trace our love for carbs right back to the holiday meals. From the breaded stuffing to the creamy green bean casserole to the sweet potatoes covered in marshmallows to the mounds of buttery dinner rolls, each dish outdid the next in a serious attempt at getting us almost immobile. The holiday meal was a text-book case for carb-loading; a meal any marathoner would be happy to eat.

There is a lazy way to prepare old fashioned slow cooked favorites. Put all ingredients into the crock pot, let the slow cooker work its magic, and get the sort of wonderful comfort food that creates memories. You can also put the slow cooker to work at breakfast or brunch time and get a better breakfast experience for your family.

Turn the humble garden tomato into a gourmet salad star and the good old tomato ranks first among all the vegetables we imagine in our dream gardens.

Squash Is the glory of the garden and the sweetheart of gourmet salads. We seldom consider the 'fall' squashes to be worth a try in a salad bowl. Let us see squash in a new light.