Eating

Make a bowl of your own crisp, light, healthy ones for 20 cents. Or buy a bag of the commercial chips more responsible for long-term weight gain than any other food. Weight gain that leads to diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.

Hard to say if it's better for breakfast or dessert. Depends if you want ice cream with it. Very intense lemon flavor makes it vibrant. Seasonal fresh pears give it a mellow sweetness. Olive oil keeps it moist, light and healthy. Ten minutes to prepare.

So satisfying and so easy. And cheap. The weather's cooling down and farmers everywhere are pulling their onions. Should be your first soup of the season. Luscious, deep and sweet onion flavor. NOT a calorie bomb.

Pickled Cucumber & Yogurt Soup. A very aromatic, very summery, very light but yogurt-rich soup. Five minutes of preparation. A great Way to use the late summer cucumbers. Like the two-pounder I just grew.

Dessert for a lazy, late summer cookout. A no-labor day dessert. As satisfying as a pie right out of the oven. Without making a pie. Hot. Sweet. Just slightly smoky. A little crumbly. Like a great pie once it's in your mouth. Where it counts.

No grill. No fireplace. You do it right on your stovetop. No pan. No pot. Just direct heat. They're succulent. They're sweet from heat. They're smoky from the direct heat. Now all you need's a fork.

When your CSA farmer picks all the peppers before the hurricane blows them into another county, you gotta do your part. You can pickle them, roast them, freeze them or make a Pepper Harvest Pizza.

Seems like morning's the good time to exercise. The best time. Now there are some interesting clinical and survey results that explain the benefits. Especially if you exercise to lose weight and, specifically, to burn fat.n

It's a salad. It's a prosciutto and melon course. It's a fruit salad. It's a first course. It's a side course. It's a main course. Whichever Way you go, you'll put it together in less than 10 minutes.

80 cents for the best bowl of tomato soup you've ever had. A bowl that's got 43% of your day's Vitamin C and 82% of your Vitamin A. A low, low, low Glycemic Load of 2.5. Zero sugar. Nothing but fresh, ripe vegetables.