– get that piece of eggshell out of the yolk?


– quickly soften up a stick of butter?


– make perfect muffins without a muffin tin?

Watch this video to see the Top 10 Life-Changing Baking Hacks you’ll want to adopt and share with your family and friends!

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– Optimizing digestion and gut bacteria

– Optimal food preparation and cooking methods

– Upgrading daily food items and ingredients

– Avoiding toxins, allergens and anti-nutrients

Bio-Hack 1: Using Natural Foods To Support Digestion

Instead of taking probiotics, digestive enzymes and other expensive supplements to support digestion, try natural, easy-to-afford foods that support digestion. Here are some recommendations:

• Fresh carrot juice (supports intestinal mucous membranes)


• Celery juice (promotes intestinal movements and alleviates constipation)


• Level of hydrochloric acid (betaine hydrochloride, HCL)


• Carminatives that reduce gas in the intestine: orange, fennel, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, cilantro, caraway, licorice, oregano, parsley, peppermint oil, rosemary, sage, lemon balm, dill, thyme, garlic.


• Bitters that stimulate the production of stomach acids and digestive enzymes: Jerusalem artichoke, Angelica sylvestris root, yellow gentian, Angelica archangelica root.

Other foods to consider to support digestion include:

Aloe vera, pineapple, chia seeds, chlorella, sauerkraut, currants, Iceland moss, chamomile, cranberries, oats, meadowsweet, blueberries, oregano, chaga mushrooms, papaya, linseeds, horse radishes, lingonberries, psyllium, rhubarb root, plantago, rosehip, spirulina, sea buckthorn, raspberry leaf, wheatgrass, valeriana.

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If you can think of more useful “smoothie” tips to add to the list, below, please share in the comments.

• A basic smoothie includes fruit, liquid or yogurt and ice. All you need to do is dump all the ingredients in your blender and blend on high until it’s smooth.
• If you have time, freeze your fruit before making your smoothies. Otherwise, maybe add an extra ice cube or two.
• You can use nut milk, soy milk or rice milk instead of cow’s milk.
• Most of these smoothies call for a little bit of honey (about a tablespoon), but you can also use maple syrup, or plain sugar if you prefer.
• Or, you can skip the sweetener altogether and save about 60 calories per smoothie.
• Stevia and Sucralose also work fine as honey substitutes, but I find I need to use less than a tablespoon per smoothie.
• Don’t be afraid to experiment. Sample your smoothie before you pour it into your glass — add a little more of whatever you think it needs.

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Source: Shereen Lehman, MS

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1) Easy egg shelling


2) Quick garlic shelling


3) Easy kiwi skin removal


4) Simple banana slicing


5) Quick paprika cutting


6) Simple potato peeling

Please leave a comment if you know of any more handy tricks to perform in the kitchen!


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Little things you do (and don’t do) can exhaust you both mentally and physically, which can make getting through your day a chore. Here, experts reveal common bad habits that can make you feel tired, plus simple lifestyle tweaks that will put the pep back in your step.

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Tip 1: 

Make a Bunch of Freezer-Friendly Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches

Make a big batch of PB&J sandwiches in advance and freeze them.

This idea is from Money-Saving Mom …
 
 

While it doesn’t really take long to make PB&J, when your time is really crunched in the morning, it can help speed things up a little bit. Plus, I’ve also found it’s so nice to have sandwiches at the ready if you end up needing to leave to go somewhere unexpectedly and no one has eaten any lunch yet.

The end result: A big pile of sandwiches!

To freeze: Cut and put in baggies (if desired) and store in airtight freezer ziptop bags in the freezer for 4-6 weeks.

To thaw: Stick frozen sandwiches in sack lunches in the morning and they will be thawed by lunch time. Or, you can be weird like me and eat them straight from the freezer.  You can also warm them in the oven or microwave if you like your sandwiches warmed.

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Tip 1. A low-carb diet is not necessarily a high-protein diet

So often people assume that when you reduce carbohydrate in your diet it’s important to add a lot of protein. This is absolutely not true. It’s important to get adequate protein, of course, and if you’ve been getting some of your protein from high-carb foods such as grains you’ll have to shift your focus to other protein sources, but you don’t have to load your diet up with protein.


Especially as people approach midlife and their older years, it’s not unusual to find that adding more protein helps people to feel better.

Tip 2. How much carb for you?

Like protein, it’s important to figure out how much carbohydrate your body functions best with. People’s bodies vary widely in their tolerance to carbohydrate. Some can get the majority of their calories from glucose sources (starches such as grains and potatoes are mostly glucose), whereas others who are not glucose-tolerant may have to eliminate these foods entirely to function at their best. Most people are somewhere in between.


Atkins calls this “metabolic resistance”; some call it “carbohydrate sensitivity” or other names. It may have to do with how much damage there is to beta cells in the pancreas. At this point, scientists have not zeroed in on how to figure this out, so we need to do it for ourselves.

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Tap your foot

 
Your skinnier friends are probably fidgeters, who burn up to 350 calories a day just by tapping their feet or being restless.
 
Try it for a few days. Walk around while you’re on the phone, or tap out a tune with your hands or feet (in the privacy of your own office, of course).
 
In fact, do a couple of swaps a day and you can drop 10 pounds in 5 weeks! So try these 25 easy tweaks—and get the slim body you want in no time.

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