Family Meals are Fading Fast

Most of us enjoy eating with our families, and not having enough time gets in the way! Hectic schedules existed before COVID 19, and still prevail during the pandemic. We may have expected less stress getting a meal together in quarantine because, after all, everyone is home under the same roof. The fact remains because…

Zoom Appearance: How to Plan Meals

With Tara Clancy, of Tara Talks, May 5, 2020 Today, O2 Tara talks with Barbara Baron, The Family Meals Dietitian. Barbara says one thing we can do right now is: BECOME OUR OWN M.V.P….through Moderation, Variety, and Planning. Watch this tip-filled interview with Barbara now.

Podcast Appearance: Family Meals – the Secret of Great Nutrition

With Pat Iyer, of Legal Nurse March 9, 2020   In this episode, Pat Iyer interviews Barbara Baron, a “Family Meals Dietitian.” She shares her expertise about how to not only shop for and cook nutritious and easy-to-make foods but how to make the preparation and dining experience one that brings families closer together. You…

Taking the Guilt out of Store-Bought Rotisserie Chicken

Barbara’s Note: Make sure to read all the way to the bottom where you can enter to receive a free copy of the most comprehensive Rotisserie Chicken cookbook I’ve seen! Rotisserie chicken is a chicken dish that is cooked on a rotisserie, using direct heat in which the chicken is placed next to the heat…

Grandma’s Sweet Savory Spicy Escarole for Escarole Pie

Grandma Roses’s Sweet Savory Spicy Escarole for Escarole Pie Escarole is a hearty green leafy vegetable. High in folic acid, fiber, and vitamins A and K, and minerals like manganese, copper and potassium. Escarole can be eaten raw or cooked.  Serve as first dish –escarole and cannellini bean soup or raw in salads. Growing up…

Family Meals Nourish Confidence, Conversation and Compassion

Amid September’s back-to-school days with sports activities in full swing,  my guess “what parents really, really, really want (well maybe) is to sit down to at least one meal together as a family! According to a 2017 report of Family Meals Institute (FMI), Americans want, first and foremost, to eat “at home together” and secondly…

Cruise at a Comfortable Altitude with This Snack Hack!

Are you flying this Spring or Summer? Whether you are flying for vacation or your job, airport eating can be a challenge. This is a sneak peak of snack-hacks that I recently shared in an article to be published in Speaker Magazine, for members of the National Speakers Association who must have runway ready snacks for…

Italian Wedding Soup

Italian wedding soup wasn’t born from  traditional wedding ‘food-fare’! Instead it refers to the “marriage” of flavors and textures from green vegetables with meat for a soup (minestra). The English translation from the Italian “minestra maritata” means “married soup”! I enjoy making this soup to serve on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, as a prelude to…