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Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ∼ Jim Davis ('Garfield')

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ∼ Carl Sagan

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.
∼ Robert Fuoss  (Saturday Evening Post)

Orange Smoothie (the smoothie Jamba Juice used to have.)
6 oz fresh orange juice
4 oz soy milk
2 scoops orange sherbet
2 scoops frozen yogurt
2 scoops ice
(Also see Orange Julius recipe near the bottom of this page.)

Food/Cooking:
Prevention.com *****
EatRight.org (American Dietetic Association)
Kaiser Permanente "Recipes for good health" *****
AllRecipes.com *****
recipezaar.com *****
cooks.com *****
GourmetSleuth.com
Epicurious.com
GourmetSpot.com
RecipExchange.com
RecipeLink.com
MealTimeIdeas.com
Barbecuebible.com
Lloyd's Barbeque Company
Marie Callender's mccornbread.com
Special focus:
mrbreakfast.com
healthykids.com
diabeticcooking.com
lowsodiumcooking.com
Corn Flakes recipes / Total Cereal recipes:
Corn Flake Banana Bread

Snacks:
Fruit Crisps

Places:
Hilltop 1892 (Novato)
Hanna's (San Rafael)
The Spinnaker (Sausalito)
Milano Restaurant (Tiburon)
Servino (Tiburon)
The Caprice (Tiburon)
Angel Island Cafe (Tiburon)
townoftiburon.org/restaurants
Zachary's Chicago Pizza
Numero Uno Pizza


Orange Julius (a healthy version from parentingteens.about.com)
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup whole milk
1/2 of a 6 ounce can (or 1/3 cup) frozen orange juice concentrate
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
5 or 6 ice cubes
1 raw egg (optional)


Hunger is the best sauce in the world. ∼ Cervantes

This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled, your onions must be fully boiled. ∼ Jonathan Swift

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. ∼ Edward Abbey