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The Best Seasonal Produce Looking for a all the best tips for selecting and preparing fall fruits and vegetables? The Fresh 20 guide to Autumn produce is here! Fall Produce Guide Eating seasonally isn’t just beneficial to your health, it’s more sustainable and better for the earth. This reference guide breaks down how to choose, [...]

Get Smarter With These Grocery Shopping Tips I’ve fallen victim to grocery shopping traps, blowing my budget and health goals one too many times. Strategically placed budget-busters. Overpriced “diet” products. The temptation of packaged sugar bombs at checkout when you’re stressing about your subtotal ticking higher and higher with each “beep.” But trust me, you [...]

Summer is our favorite time of year to take advantage of the freshest seasonal fruits and vegetables that are bursting with flavor.  Here’s our top 20 list of the best fruits and vegetables for the summer season, including ripe tomatoes, juicy peaches and sweet corn.  It’s a fresh guide to summer produce to help you [...]

Cooking to Boost Immunity Along with this list of foods in my last post that contain high levels of immune-boosting vitamins and minerals, I’m sharing recipes that make the most of those ingredients. For some, a list of ingredients might be the ticket to eating for immune health, and for others it might be overwhelming. [...]

20 simple food substitutions that can help you eat healthy dinners without stress. One of the most frequent questions I get asked is how to substitute ingredients in recipes.  Whether you have a dietary restriction, an allergy or a picky eater in the household, there is always a way to customize a meal without having [...]

Sometimes life doesn’t go as planned but soup is always a good idea. I’ve been building soups from very basic ingredients for years and it’s always satisfying in stressful times. And I know some of you may not love all the extra time in the kitchen but YOU GOT THIS!!   Like the beloved Remy from [...]

Kitchen Goals I often hear about how disorganized refrigerators and pantries can become.  I can empathize. One of the major factors that led me to start The Fresh 20 was feeling like my kitchen was chaos. Too many gadgets. Too many random items in the fridge. I knew I needed to edit my pantry, countertops [...]

Eating For Immunity Now is the time to focus on the top immune boosting foods. I’ve always made an effort to include fresh fruits and vegetables in my diet, particularly those rich in antioxidants, and assumed my immune system was A-okay. Then 2020 happened. I can’t remember a time that my first priority nutritionally was [...]

I find that daily living requires a lot of tools.  Technology allows us to have resources at our fingertips but it can also give us too much information.  I’ve been on a news fast for almost 18 months but now with the Coronavirus, I feel the information overload creeping in.  So I take it back [...]