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Greetings!
It's been a busy fall with a historic election behind us and
Thanksgiving and the holiday season ahead of us. To make matters
more complicated, we're all feeling the time crunch, the money
crunch and the energy crunch.
Let me remind you to take good care of yourself as the days grow
colder and darker. Make an effort to get more sleep, more downtime,
more warming food.
I'm here to inspire you and support you in making healthy changes
in your food and your life. This fall I'm available for one on one
consultations, supermarket tours and public speaking. Or, if you'd
like to set up a small group class in your home or over the phone,
simply email or call me to set it up.
Here's wishes for a happy and healthy November,
Susan :)
| Slow Food Westchester Event Sunday November
16th |
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Please join Slow Food Hudson Valley and Slow
Food Westchester for an autumnal tour and dessert potluck
at Glynwood
CenterCold Spring, New York. You'll learn about what
Glynwood Farm is doing to preserve farming in the Hudson
Valley.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
2:00-5:00
pm
Bring along a Fall dessert made with local
ingredients to share with friends and members of Slow Food.
Beverages will be provided by our hosts at Glynwood Center.
Please RSVP to:
info@slowfoodwestchester.org
Slow
Food is an international movement opposing fast food, and
promoting protecting the heritage , traditions and culture of
food.Slow
Food USA has more than 200 chapters across the country.
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| Pangea Conference November 14-15th in
NYC |
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The Pangea
2008 Conference is an integrative medicine program,
offered to all doctors, nurses, allied health professionals,
clergy, complementary therapy practitioners, residents,
students and others in health care training programs. I'll be
speaking on a panel discussion entitled Sick Schools:
Promoting Healthier School Environments
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| Eat Local & Seasonal for Better
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Here's a delicious way to help reduce your carbon footprint
and save money too. Join a CSA.
and you get loads of veggies fresher than your supermarket.
Fresher food has a higher nutrient content.
Bialas Farms in Goshen NY will be offering a winter CSA
with a pick up location in Pleasantville NY and Manhattan.
Visit their website, www.bia
lasfarms.com and click on the CSA button for more
information. Tell them that Susan Rubin sent you!
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| November Recipe: Miso Onion Soup |
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As November brings us colder weather, this soup warms you
up and can prevent or soothe upper respiratory ailments. My
friend Randi whips up a batch whenever she feels a sore throat
coming on, she knows that the combination of garlic, ginger
and miso work wonders.
To avoid too many tears, I
utilize my food processor for slicing the onions.
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons olive oil
6 medium
white or red onions quartered and thinly sliced
6 cloves
garlic
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
3 to 4
tablespoons miso ( any variety) dissolved in 1/3 cup
water
Sea salt and fresh ground pepper
Procedure:
Heat the oil in a soup pot. Add the
onions and sauté over medium-low heat until golden.
Add
the garlic and continue to sauté slowly until the onions are
lightly browned, stirring often, 15 to 20 minutes.
Add 6
cups water and the ginger. Bring to a simmer. Cover and simmer
gently for 15 minutes.
Stir in dissolved miso, remove form
the heat, and season.
Allow the soup to stand covered for
a couple of minutes, and serve.
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| E-Book: Support for Parents of Picky
Eaters |
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Calling all parents plagued by picky eaters! My
downloadable E-booklet on picky eaters can help you
recover your sanity and make mealtimes more fun and
delicious. You can win the picky eater war without being
sneaky or deceptive as other books might suggest.
To find out more, click
here
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| E-Book: Dump Your Diet! |
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Do you diet, lose weight and
re-gain allthe weight you lost again and again and
again? Perhaps it's time to Dump
Your Diet! Learn more with my E- book on how to let
go of unnecessary weight by letting go of diets that
make us unhappy and unhealthy.
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| E-Book: Teens, Tweens & Junk |
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Would you like your kids to eat less junk and more
real food? Check out my E-book, Winning
the Junk Food Wars for great ideas that will help
you to incorporate more real food into your kid's lives.
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| Coming Soon! Two New E-Books! |
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I'm working to put together two new E-Books. The
first book is about Food and Bones because there
is so much more to strong bones than calcium. Using my
House of Health model, I'll explain what to eat and how
to live to create strong, healthy bones.
The second book is entitled Cholesterol: Friend or
Foe in which I'll talk about fat fallacies and more.
Look for both books on my website and in this newsletter
in early 2009.
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Leading & Eating by
Example |
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Many of
us are filled with hope and a renewed sense of possiblity now
that Barack Obama has been elected president. He will have his
work cut out for him. We're facing monumental issues
concerning the Economy, Environment and Energy- and that's
just the E's! These E's can be effectively addressed by
utilizing the "F" word: FOOD! Food is directly linked
to all of these issues.
Roger
Doiran, founder of Kitchen
Gardeners International has a proposal for the first
family to turn some of that White House lawn into a
garden.
Not only
is this an idea whose time has come, but it's imperative that
all of us begin growing some of our own food again. During the
depression in the 1930's, the one thing that helped mitigate
the impact was that a majority of the country still grew most
of their own food - at a point in time where we're watching
the economy spiral downward and the possibility of a
depression is quite real, now less than 5% of us are growing
our own food. One of the most revolutionary things we can do
these days is to re- acquire the skills necessary to feed
ourselves and our family. Growing food leads to sharing with
others, builds community, leads to understanding, diminishes
differences, celebrates life!
Lawns are
an outdated and irresponsible concept. We spend lots of money
and energy mowing and blowing them, lawns are a major source
of pollution. Check out the
history of lawns by clicking here.
Gardens,
on the other hand, especially organic ones, are what the world
needs right now.This idea has been done before. First lady
Eleanor Roosevelt had a garden at the White House which
inspired many Americans to start Victory Gardens
Maine's
First Lady, Karen Baldacci, is a nutritionist with a high Food
IQ. They have gardens and a greenhouse at the Blaine
House in Augusta, Maine. It would be great to get all of
the Governor's to grow some food too!
I hope
you'll join Eat
the View and encourage all of your friends to do the
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