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FIBER: OUT OF THE REGULAR BOX

August 13, 2009

You know how to get your fiber-fill from such sources like reliable oatmeal and veggies. The wonder ingredient (aim for 25 grams or more a day), keeps us full and regular. But, now that food companies are catching on to our needs, we can get the good stuff from even more common food sources that you eat anyway. You just have to know where to look.

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Cheese and yogurts will always live in the cooler area of the supermarket, but we’re not going there just for the calcium anymore.

Fiber One Yogurt: 5 grams per 4 oz. serving

Fiber One Milkshake: 8 gm per 10.5 oz. serving

Friendship Low Fat Cottage Cheese: 3 gm per ½ cup serving

prod_2Break Bread

Of course that bread ban is long over, but now you have another reason to keep the slices on hand.

Thomas’ Double Fiber Honey Wheat English Muffin: 5 gm per muffin

Mary’s Gone Crackers Sticks and Twigs: 5 gms per 35 gm package

imagesCoffee Break

Your barista may have your morning coffee routine down pat, but it might be worth spicing your joe up with a fiber-fortified Splenda because you get 1 gm per packet.

DIY

nutsBecause Element Bar would rather spoil the surprise, then get the flavor wrong, these guys give you a blank nutrition slate and 29 ingredients from which to pick when you design your on-the-go bar. With options like chocolate nut pie and almond-apricot and maple bar and up to 10.7 grams of fiber to one bar, we think you’re going to be good at this game.


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CHEESE WIZ

July 14, 2009

As much as we’d like to confidently navigate the halls of Murray’s Cheese, we’d rather master one versatile product that can be sliced, grated, grilled, fried or frozen and has a complicated cocktail conversation-worthy history.
Halloumi, of Cyprus origins, is a semi-hard cheese made from goat or sheep’s milk (occasionally with the cow’s milk). Seasoned with [...]

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