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Cost-conscious cooking is on everyone’s to-do list these days. Selecting healthy and affordable food might seem like a challenge, but nutritious and inexpensive are not mutually exclusive concepts. Follow these tips so you can enjoy delicious fare at a great price. Before shopping: • Use weekly grocery store ads to plan your weekly menu (do it on the weekend and make it a family affair) • While reading the circulars, check for foods you buy regularly • Get a coupon app for your smart phone and use that too (like coupons.com) • Generate a shopping list for the week that you can stick to • If [...]

4.63 / 5 Stars | 127 Reviews by EXODUSMOM "Canned tomatoes make this delicious and versatile salsa fast and easy. Adjust the ingredients to taste." View Complete Recipe Details and Reviews [...]

4.64 / 5 Stars | 10 Reviews by anmlnrs "An easy, filling side dish for barbecues or camping can be made by cooking potatoes and vegetables in foil packets. This is an easy recipe for your campfire, BBQ Grill, or oven." View Complete Recipe Details and Reviews [...]

4.61 / 5 Stars | 220 Reviews by CATHY BYRON "Fresh strawberries, grapes, and bananas are folded into cool, refreshing strawberry yogurt. Delicious!" View Complete Recipe Details and Reviews [...]

4.01 / 5 Stars | 88 Reviews by Leslie in AK "A delicious dinner for two, including a savory side dish of oniony wild rice, takes just a few easy steps to make. Add a simple salad and some candlelight to make your meal an elegant repast." View Complete Recipe Details and Reviews [...]

4.5 / 5 Stars | 243 Reviews by Pattie Price "Several steps build to the final salad crescendo. Chopped apples and bananas marinate in pineapple juice, and kiwi and strawberries are sliced. Then everything is mixed into peach pie filling and spooned into a beautiful serving bowl." View Complete Recipe Details and Reviews [...]

4.32 / 5 Stars | 40 Reviews by amanda1432 "This is a bright, beautiful, and very simple vegetarian dish. The secret of the sophisticated flavor is in the herb vinegar. I like to use white vinegar flavored with sprigs of tarragon." View Complete Recipe Details and Reviews [...]

4.15 / 5 Stars | 9 Reviews by bluebayou "Go out into your garden and pick the following - lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, green onions and celery. Wash, chop, and toss into a salad bowl with a few lovely shrimp, and your favorite dressing. That's it!" View Complete Recipe Details and Reviews [...]

4.87 / 5 Stars | 117 Reviews by Sue "Make your own colored sugars and save yourself a lot of money over the holiday season. This recipe is easy and can be kept in the jars for months. " View Complete Recipe Details and Reviews [...]

4.28 / 5 Stars | 29 Reviews by SUZANNAH "A satisfying and richly flavored vegetarian hot sandwich made with hummus, apples, and cheese. Try this with your favorite variety of apple or cheese!" View Complete Recipe Details and Reviews [...]

4.39 / 5 Stars | 13 Reviews by Angelyn Semenza "This has become a neighborhood favorite. A marinade with the great flavors of soy sauce, sesame, garlic and ginger. It's great on fish, particularly salmon, and chicken." View Complete Recipe Details and Reviews [...]

This week, the Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman experiments with focaccia, an alternative to pizza that makes a great lunch, snack or sandwich. [...]

Staying in a nonsmoking room in a hotel that allows smoking elsewhere does not prevent exposure to tobacco smoke, a new study reports. [...]

If you take coated aspirin and have concerns about its absorption, you are better off crushing the tablets than splitting them. But uncoated aspirin may be the best, most cost-effective option. [...]

This spinach-like, tart herb is now in season. Pick up a bunch and get cooking! Sorrel Basics Although commonly defined as an herb, sorrel is part of the buckwheat family. It was used by the Greeks and Romans to help digestion. It was also wrapped around meat to help tenderize it. During the Middle Ages, before citrus fruit was brought to Europe, folks used this green herb to add a sour punch to dishes. Once citrus fruit reached Europe, poor sorrel was cast aside. Only recently has this citrus-flavored herb been gaining popularity. Its tart flavor and tenderizing capabilities come from a compound [...]

One of the hardest parts about developing leukemia at age 22 was how restrictive it was: My treatments left me highly susceptible to infection, airplanes were strictly off limits and even a trip to my neighborhood bodega required a protective face mask. [...]

When I got to the marathon starting line earlier this month, I knew that my 18 weeks of training would come down to the next five hours. That training? Some would say unconventional, even controversial. [...]

Rum and coke is a thing of the past. Instead, you’ll find bars offering up a menu of exotic cocktails created from high-quality booze and fresh ingredients. I had the opportunity to speak with the bar manager Sarah Boisjoli from Beauty and Essex — one of the trendiest bars in New York City, known for their high superb cocktail menu — about hot cocktail trends you’ll see this year. Q. The term “mixologist” is now being used instead of “bartender.” Is there a difference between the two? There is a difference. A mixologist develops the recipes while the bartender mixes and serves [...]

We joke with our patients that we love boring — it is, in fact, a medical ideal that our patients complain of nothing more than ennui on a daily basis. But the psychological mettle it takes to endure leukemia treatment is remarkable, and there’s little that can prepare a person for it. [...]

Average levels of LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol, declined significantly in Americans from 2001 to 2008, but have remained steady ever since, a new study has found. [...]