Sarah's Recipe Blog

Thanks for posting. I'd love to see your ideas and actual costs for "frugal healthy cooking" as well. It seems that unhealthy foods often cost LESS than healthy foods, and perhaps you can dispel that myth. I'm always looking for ways eat healthier and lower the grocery bill at the same time.

Great idea, I'm always curious as to what other runners eat daily!

I'd love to see a blog on your (family) food!

Maybe you will add some variation to my receipts - I tend to prepare my breakfast and lunch before I leave for my office everyday, thus I can avoid eat food with unknown/dubious ingredients.

I am really looking forward to this to help me in my own diet. I have never made Granola, we usually buy it, but would love to have your recipie if you can come up with it....I don't even know what "agave" is?? I am new to this type of eating but am looking forward to giving it a try.

This is awesome!! Sarah, I love to see what people are eating. Your interest in good food is infectious, and your pregnancy cravings are funny. So, yes, it will help any of us interested in eating/cooking/running. I, for one, would love it if you were not shy about why you choose what you're eating (what the foods contain or do, and why they are important on the day you are eating them, etc). Not every day is an important food day, but I'd love it if you'd share that info on the days you have a reason for eating/preparing certain things. I'm looking forward to reading your menu. Thank you!

I think this ia a great idea! Paul it is true that some "heathy" food is more expensive but my grocery bill has gone down not buying "junk" food. I but alot of what I eat in bulk and is a fraction of the price.

Similar to what I eat this morning. Mine was my 7-grain ceral mixed in natually sweeted yogut with walnuts and figs. I let the ceral sit for alittle bit to get soft.

I'm with the person who doesn't know what agave is!! But I am really looking forward to some tips on how to eat better.

I'm very happy for the responses and hope I can help motivate you guys to eat better and not be afraid of weird things like ...agave for instance.

Agave is cactus juice actually and it is a sweet syrup similar in taste to corn syrup. Please feel free to share things you eat and any questions I'll try and answer.

As far as healthy food being more expensive...it is in some ways. When we buy a case of young coconuts that is definitely an expensive treat for us.

However like Josse said buying in bulk can save money. There are many ways to find bulk prices on grains that can last a long time, give you peace of mind for the future, help you eat better and save money. We order bulk food through our health food store and get a 10% discount. Costco sells bulk food. The LDS church sells bulk items at price to anyone through the cannery. Contact a member of the church in your area for more info on that.

Sarah, where can I get honey in bulk at a resonable price?

Also can you please post in the blue box (there on the left of this blog) a link to the place where you keep all your recipes? I know it's somewhere in the large context of the fastrunningblog.com, and I've found it twice before, but I always have to remember how I found it. It would be nice to put that here for easy reference if you can(maybe listed as a 'favorite blog'). I'd love that!

Luz - the recipes are at the Healthy Recipes link at the very top on every blog, not just Sarah's.

I am excited for you to post what your family eats. I just ordered and recieved bulk oats/brown rice and lots of other stuff from azure. So it will help on how I can use them.

I've found that turkey meat exactly has the same amount of fat as beef. I never realized that until my wife pointed that out to me. But Turkey is better for you.

How cool! This is a great idea, Sarah!

Thanks for sharing with us! I can definitely benefit from your ideas.

Hey Kory, I don't know where you shop, but I know a few of the stores around me offer very low fat alternatives. I usually get 99% fat free ground turkey which I think has 3 or 4 grams of fat.

Benn - You can also get Lean Beef the same way and it only has 3 or 4 grams of fat.

Yum! We will have to try some of this stuff out-thanks for posting!!

Oh okay I didn't know that Kory :). My parents never gave me beef as a kid, so I have never experienced the taste of a steak or anything :( but I did read somewhere that beef has more trans fat per ounce than ground turkey. Is that true?

Beef does not have trans fats in them, either does turky. Meat has saturated fat except fish has the omega. Fats form meat are not bad for you if cooked rught. A trans fat is fat that has been hydrogentated or when a fat is heated to a very high temp.

Sarah, thanks for sharing. You may top Lybi in readership. Cool tips for a better diet.

B of BS Rools out

The good thing about extra lean ground beef you don't get in extra lean ground turkey is highly absorbable iron. I used to shun beef until I found I was highly anemic, but for the past decade I've eaten more super lean red meat and I've been fine since.

Sarah-thanks for starting this blog! We should have a granola making party sometime.

Hmm...good point. I guess we don't eat red meat because of how we feel after we eat it. Both Sasha and I have a harder time digesting it. I'm not one to say no to a hamburger once or twice a year but Sasha doesn't like it at all.

I would love to have a granola party. I think it would be fun to see what kind of things people want in theirs. I'm happy with the basic one because it's easier and cheaper but my kids would probably be open to a new flavor.

My family prefers bison meat. It is as lean as chicken and fish and it doesn't taste to different from regular beef. You can get it at Whole Foods/Wild Oats. Its a little bit more expensive than regular beef, but not by much. My dad normally just buys roasts and cuts them into steaks. They have hamburger too.