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Totally Tasty Candied Rosemary Dates 0


These dates may be totally indulgent tasting but you can eat 15 and it’s still less than half the sugar of a can of coke. Not to mention it’s natural sugar not disgusting high fructose corn syrup! Around the office these dates are affectionately called cucarachas, but...

Creamy Pesto Pasta Recipe 0

 Oh how I missed pasta when I went Gluten-free! When I was in college I ate pasta about twice a day, it was cheap, easy to make and filled me up quickly between classes. Now that I’m a grown woman I still don’t have the time but...

Monsanto... Unstoppable? 0

 

“Monsanto as a company lies, incredibly, about what they are doing. They bribe officials around the world and they seem to treat the world as their toilet. That’s not right for the rest of us.” –Urban Dictionary

You’ve probably heard about Monsanto as they have been all over the news for all the wrong reasons. Just recently, on March 26th, Obama signed H.R. 933, a 240 page government budget bill; buried inside was...

Healthy Surprise is going corn free! 0

At Healthy Surprise we’re always trying to improve our snack box. The most important role of a snackologist is determining which ingredients pass muster – we are constantly reading the ingredients of new snacks. One ingredient has been coming up repeatedly in both our internal discussions and feedback from snackers: corn.

Therefore we’ve decided to not include any snacks in Healthy Surprise which have corn. Here’s why...

How Much Would You Pay for Your Health? 0

Did you know that an MRI costs $800 less in France than it does here? Ezra Klein from the Washington Post explains that compared to the rest of the world, America pays the highest bills for medical care!! Is it because...