Elevate your next picnic beyond sandwiches and prepared salads with these “out of the basket” ideas that pair flavor with nutrition to create the perfect al fresco meal.
Food Swaps, Tips & Tricks for a Healthy Picnic
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Get the Skinny on Summer Barbecue
An afternoon barbeque is the symbol of a relaxing summer. A time when you let go of the hustle and bustle of the school year and an over packed schedule, a great summer BBQ is like a reward for all of that running around. Yup, you earned that time…so kick back and enjoy it!
8 “Healthy” Foods to Break-Up With
Our relationships with different foods can remarkably resemble our relationships in life: they can be healthy, beneficial, and evolving; or burdensome, boring, and stuck in a rut — following patterns that just don’t serve our best interest. That’s when it’s time to break up with the unhealthy foods that are bringing us down. But what if we think our relationship with a specific food is healthy when, in fact, it’s really undermining our well being?
How to Host a Better (and Healthier) BBQ
An afternoon barbecue is the symbol of summer: Firing up the grill and filling your yard with the smell of delicious food, fun games and the feeling that there’s nowhere else you need to be.
5 Delicious and Healthy Breakfast #Recipes to Spoil Mom this Mother’s Day
With Mother’s Day around the corner, kids and Dads alike are panicking about what to cook. Knowing that mom loves to be treated and stay healthy, Guiding Stars has put together a few easy healthy breakfast ideas – to make spoiling mom a breeze!
Unified Grocers Partners with Guiding Stars® and healthyAisles® To Launch Nutrition Guidance Program for Independent Retailers
(LOS ANGELES) – Unified Grocers, the largest wholesale grocery distributor in the western United States, has partnered with Guiding Stars® and Vestcom’s healthyAisles® to give shoppers of independent grocery stores a quick and easy way to make informed decisions about healthy food choices. This convenient and easy-to-use shelf tag program allows shoppers to see at a glance foods that offer the most nutrition for the calories and identify the key health benefits of each item.
IOM Front-of-Pack Labeling Recommendations Reflect Key Features ofGuiding Stars
On Oct. 20, 2011, the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Food and Nutrition Board presented results and recommendations from the Committee on Examination of Front-of-Package Nutrition Ratings Systems and Symbols (Phase II).
The direction recommended by the IOM is strongly validating of the Guiding Stars nutrition guidance program, which has been in the marketplace now for five years.
Guiding Stars Debuts in Canada
Canada has a new partner to help consumers navigate the nutritional value of the food they buy. Loblaw Cos. Ltd., Canada’s largest national grocery chain, introduced a pilot program of the Guiding Stars nutrition guidance system in four of its Toronto-area stores. Guiding Stars has been implemented in a number of U.S. supermarkets since 2006.