Meet our Featured Dietitian Liz!
Can a few simple food swaps make you healthier and happier? According to Liz Shaw, yes — she’s made a career of it! Liz is the brains behind Shaw’s Simple Swaps Consulting. This registered dietitian is a self-certified health nut who has loved nutrition and wellness and since she was a little girl. Now, she […]
Meet our Featured Dietitian Anne Mauney!
Anne Mauney is a registered dietitian, creator of the blog Fannetastic Food, a marathoner, yogi, lover of the outdoors, and a healthy recipe creator. She has a private nutrition practice in Northern Virginia just outside of Washington, D.C., and does virtual counseling by phone — and you can be sure beans are part of the […]
Meet our Featured Dietitian Stephanie McKercher
Stephanie McKercher is on a mission to end calorie counting. Instead, this food lover and registered dietitian from Denver, Colorado, believes in eating mindfully, cooking, enjoying produce straight from the market, and incorporating whole foods such as beans, vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, and seeds. She encourages her clients to eat beans because they are […]
Meet our Featured Dietitian Serena Ball!
Serena Ball, co-creator of the website The Recipe ReDux, a registered dietitian and health blogger community, likes the new and trendy way to use the bean brine from garbanzos called aguafaba. Cooking with aguafaba is about the most fun she has had in the kitchen in a long time! (For more info on aguafaba read […]
Meet our Featured Dietitian Alexandra Caspero!
Alexandra believes that beans are one of the healthiest foods! As the owner of Delish Knowledge, her goal is to make healthier eating simple and accessible. Alexandra is a registered dietitian, yoga teacher, and vegetable lover. She specializes in plant-based diets (beans!), weight management and sports nutrition. She recommends beans to her clients because they […]
Aquafaba, the new bean trend!
Did you know that there is a name for the liquid or bean brine you usually discard from a can of beans? It’s called aquafaba and it’s becoming a favorite egg substitute for people following a vegan diet. In 2015 Goose Wohlt, a software engineer and vegan from Indiana came up with a way to […]
Try Some Beans For Breakfast!
Beans for breakfast? What a great way to start your day by making one of these delicious breakfasts. Not only are beans filling, but eating beans will help you avoid the mid-morning slump. Kids home for summer vacation? These breakfasts are easy, nutritious and will give the kiddos energy for all those summer activities! You […]
Meet our Featured Chef Mohini Singh
Chef Mohini Singh cooked her first meal at the age of 7. It was in her native Fiji, outside on an open fire under a mango tree, and she prepared a blackeyed pea curry with tomatoes, cilantro, roti, an Indian flat bread, and lots of love. She inherited her love of cooking from her mother, […]
Featured Chef Leroy Walker of Bistro 234
Chef Leroy Walker of Bistro 234 in Turlock, California, signed up for a home economics cooking class as a way to get an easy grade in 8th grade. After noticing he was the only boy in a class of 26, he inevitably took home economics again his freshman year at Turlock High School. But something […]
Featured Chef: Jesus Alcelay
Meet Chef Jesus Alcelay of the Cottonwood Grille in Boise, Idaho! Chef Jesus Alcelay is passionate about food and cooking — and he gives all the credit for his incredible skills to his mother, Felisa. At 9, he began learning traditional Basque dishes at her side in her kitchen in their hometown of Oñati, […]