Category: Kitchen & Cooking Basics

Trick or Treat? Making Sense of the Nutrition Facts Label for Processed Foods

By Nicole St. Louis, Senior Nutrition & Health Major, Sargent College  When you walk into the grocery store, it is very easy to get overwhelmed by all of the options, whether it be in canned foods, pasta, sauces, dairy . . . the list goes on. Halloween is coming, and with that comes the endless aisles […]

Salt Alternatives: How to Impart Flavor without Breaking Your Sodium Limit

By Nicole St. Louis, Senior Nutrition & Health Major, Sargent College  Salt is everywhere. It is a preservative, being added to many processed foods to increase shelf life, and it enhances the flavors of certain foods. But, as the saying goes, everything in moderation, and sadly, we Americans aren’t doing too well moderating our sodium intake. […]

Healthy Cooking on a Budget: Quinoa and Vegetable Pilaf

By Emma Balek, Sargent Choice Nutrition Center Practicum Student & Senior Dietetics Student and Sarah Butler Mazerall, MBA, MS, RD, LDN, SCNC Registered Dietitian Recently in the SCNC’s Healthy Cooking on a Budget Class we took on the challenge of making a one dish wonder that gives us all the grains and vegetables we need […]

Smart Shopping Tips

Gina Petracca is a first year graduate student at Boston University in Sargent College’s DPD/MS+DI program. Let’s face it: grocery stores are overwhelming. There is an exorbitant amount of food and an endless number of options. Where do you even begin? And how are you supposed to make healthy decisions with so many treats taunting you at […]

Kitchen Safety: A Fiery Interview

   By Ellie Schulman, Film and Television student, College of Communication This past summer I moved into my first place on my own, and while I felt pretty proud that I managed to take care of myself for three months, I have to admit that it was a pretty hilarious experience. For example, I would sometimes […]

What is Unit Pricing?

  by Gina Petracca, Graduate Nutrition Student When you are grocery shopping and about to put a product in your basket, what do you look at? Do you look at the price? And if so, which price do you look at? Most people don’t realize that every item in the grocery store actually has two prices: […]