Healthy Eating

From burnt eggs to brown cheese: Five more terrible foods -- and how we got stuck with them

Like everyone else who eats and drinks, I have a list of certain grubs and sips that are so foul that I won't go near them, and it is a constant source of curiosity for me that other people would -- to the point that some of the grossest edibles are actually quite popular. Here are five more terri ... More >>

Can Qdoba rescue brown rice -- from itself?

The term "flavor profile" isn't usually heard in reference to brown rice -- unless "tastes an awful lot like water-logged wood chips" is considered a valid flavor descriptor. But Qdoba, the runner-up of Colorado's homegrown, fast-casual Mexican chains, is introducing seasoned brown rice as an option ... More >>

Fresh Takes Kitchen brings healthy, affordable meals to the community

It's one thing to know that you should be eating healthier, and another to have the time and money to prepare healthy meals. Saloni Doshi and Chelsea Katz, co-founders of Fresh Takes Kitchen, are working to make healthy, affordable meals accessible to the community. Their goal is to become a viable ... More >>

Five chain-restaurant trends that should continue in 2013

This last year has brought us some terrible chain restaurant trends, including serving up sodium-soaked "healthy" meals; shrinking dessert sizes and charging the same prices; peddling fancy cocktails with more ingredients than a hair-relaxing solution; and restaurants labeling everything "natural." ... More >>

Udi's Gluten-Free Foods introduces five new products

Smart Balance has been busy since it purchased Udi's Gluten-Free Foods, a spinoff of Udi's Healthy Foods, a Colorado company that got its start baking bread, for $125 million this summer. Today it will launch five new Udi's items at the Natural Products Expo East in Baltimore, the country's premier ... More >>

Lasley Elementary gets a new salad bar as part of HBO's The Weight of the Nation

Lakewood mayor Bob Murphy stood in front of Lasley Elementary students today and talked about how the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff view obesity as a national security issue, since 27 percent of all applicants for the armed forces are too obese to serve. The rest of the festivities were more upbeat, bu ... More >>

Five ways to make public-school food and drinks healthier

When money and ethics collide, the crash is usually fun to watch. But when you throw public school meals into that mix, you get an ugly food fight with few winners and lots of losers -- and those losers are kids who are just trying to eat their lunches and get to recess.

Eating In

Reader: NuVal has no value to people who really care about food

The NuVal system now in use at King Soopers is supposed to be "nutrition made easy," rating foods on a scale of 1 to 100. "Basically, the way scores are calculated, we look at thirty different nutrients -- both that are considered good and not so good -- to get a score," says Robert Keane, spokesman ... More >>

A pilot program places healthy vending machines in Denver schools

A few hours after lunch, students across America start to get cranky. Their blood sugar plunges, their eyes glaze over, and their stomachs start to rumble. They find a quick fix in the school's vending machines by gorging themselves on greasy potato chips and sugary sodas. Energy levels skyrocket be ... More >>

NuVal scores food based on nutrition in King Soopers and provides some surprises

For anyone who has ever spent too much time in the grocery store, wrinkling their foreheads while reading ingredient lists and pondering the nutritional benefits of calcium sorbate or xanthan gum, NuVal is designed to help. The nutritional rating system scores most food on a 1-100 scale -- and the h ... More >>

Hooters, IHOP and McDonald's among the Denver restaurants on Healthy Dining Finder

​When you think of healthy restaurants in Denver, one of the healthiest cities in the country, a couple of spots whose menus are rife with the terms "organic," "sustainable" and "local" come to mind: WaterCourse Foods and Root Down, for example. You won't find them on Healthy Dining Finder -- ... More >>

Colorado Children's Campaign says state's children becoming both more hungry and obese

Dr. Steve Berman (left), Angela Glover Blackwell and Bill Shore discuss childhood hunger.​Colorado's children suffer from two seemingly contradictory food-related health problems: hunger and obesity. That's the word from the Colorado Children's Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy organization focus ... More >>

Sean Fowler, a Colorado native, feeds the leading Tour de France team

Sean Fowler​Food trucks have been the signature food trend in Denver for the past year, but across the Atlantic Ocean a Colorado native is mastering an entirely different kind of mobile gastronomy. Sean Fowler, formerly the chef at Cucina Leone and Ranelles, mans a mobile kitchen and cooks tea ... More >>

Salba: Another superfood for the cupboard

​When whole wheat flour, line-caught salmon, blueberries and flax just won't do, there's another super-duper food for the most healthy of the healthy: Salba Smarts has been selling its line of products containing salba since 2006, and I've been munching my way through them. This superfood app ... More >>

Govinda's will be open for lunch starting January 4

​Govinda's Buffet, 1400 Cherry Street, reopened this year after an almost year-long hiatus, serving up a vegetarian spread on Friday and Saturday nights. And there's more good news coming: Govinda's just announced yesterday that it will be brining back lunch hours In 2011.

Taste-testing the brown rice and the Garden Blend at Chipotle: The verdict

​When we heard that Chipotle was testing some new items at its location at 371 East Alameda Avenue, we leapt for joy, shouting, "Pride of our city! Purveyor of aggressively decent burritos all across our land! Expanding its menu! Huzzah!" Then we found out what those items were: a new "Garden ... More >>

Martin Luther King Jr. Early College wins EatWell@School culinary competition

The winning team plating the winning dish​LiveWell Colorado sponsored a nine-week after-school culinary program with three Denver high schools that culminated in the winning team from Martin Luther King Jr. Early College taking home first place at the competition last Friday. The all-female te ... More >>

Terry Nichols is going to have to stick with prison gruel

Gruel it is for convicted Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols.​Terry Nichols has lost his drawn-out plea for more wholesome prison fare. Last Thursday, Colorado U.S. District Court Judge Christine Arguello dismissed the convicted Oklahoma City bomber conspirator's claims that he needs a diet of ... More >>

Rudi's buns win more than a passing glance from Good Housekeeping

​Good Housekeeping has been keeping an eye on a lot of buns lately. The ladies' magazine recently voted Boulder-based Rudi's Organic Bakery's buns the hottest of them all. Rudi's buns won out over the likes of Sara Lee and Pepperidge Farm buns in a taste test comparing eight brands of whole ... More >>

Congressman Jared Polis wants kids to have healthy lunch options

No Lunchables would be found in this congressman's childhood lunchbox.​No tater tots or fruit cocktail were harmed in the upbringing of Congressman Jared Polis. No Cheetos or Little Debbie snack cakes either for that matter. In fact, Colorado's second district congressman says he brought hi ... More >>

Another taste of the Tasting Cafe

Ellen JaskolThe Tasting Cafe: looking good, and good for you.​When the Rocky Mountain News folded in February 2009, food editor Marty Meitus's job disappeared, too -- so she approached the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infant and Children (WIC), administered by the Tri-County Healt ... More >>

The Tasting Cafe could be the recipe for healthy, inexpensive eating

A taste of the Tasting Cafe

Ellen JaskolHow do you make kids happy with healthy food? Ask Mary Meitus.​Marty Meitus's longtime job as food editor disappeared with the Rocky Mountain News last February. But she's been putting her down-time to very good use: She created a pilot program for the Supplemental Nutrition Progra ... More >>

Raw Power

Stephanie Tourles makes the case for raw food

​Stephanie Tourles is the author of the just-released "cook" book Raw Energy: 124 Raw Food Recipes for Energy Bars, Smoothies, and Other Snacks to Supercharge Your Body. She'll be appearing at the Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th Street, on Monday, January 11, at 7:30 p.m. to sign copies of the ... More >>

Dietitian Suzanne Martin takes on holiday eating

Suzanne Martin, Mile High registered dietitian​Gravy boats are waiting to sail you away to the land of bigger pant sizes this holiday. But Denver dietitian Suzanne Martin, a registered nurse with a Ph.D., says you can still enjoy waist-busting pleasures responsibly, and has served up some tips ... More >>

Visiting dietitians keep special requests to a minimum while in Denver

Hungry, thirsty dietitians before hitting Denver restaurants​ The annual American Dietetic Association Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo is drawing to a close in Denver. One of the world's largest organizations of food and nutrition professionals, the ADA focuses on the latest food-service t ... More >>

Today: Michelle May at the Food & Nutrition Conference

​The American Dietetic Association's Food & Nutrition Conference, which kicked off Saturday, runs through October 20 at the Colorado Convention Center. One of the highlights comes at 3 p.m. today, when Michelle May, the author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Break the Eat-R ... More >>

Milking It: Cinnamon Chex

​​​Cinnamon Chex General Mills Rating: Three-and-a-quarter spoons out of four Cereal description: The familiar Chex shape -- puffy, square grids, like graph paper made for chewing -- is present and accounted for, as are the base ingredients of rice and corn flour. Some of the piec ... More >>

Good news for GoodBelly, if you can stomach it

GoodBelly is growing like the beneficial bacteria -- or probiotic -- that makes your belly feel good. The pet of NextFoods, a Boulder-based health-food company, GoodBelly was recently included in the Los Angeles Examiner's "Top Ten Best Food Product Introductions for 2008." The product was created b ... More >>

Phil's Fresh wins a fresh loan from Whole Foods

Boulder-based Phil's Fresh Foods has just won a $96,000 loan from Whole Food's Local Producer Loan Program. Phil's is a wholesale, all-natural burrito manufacturer; its product is stocked by local Whole Foods, Vitamin Cottage and Sunflower stores, as well as som ... More >>

Buy at Whole Foods, help SAME Cafe

On Thursday, November 20, on Whole Foods Giving Day, 5 percent of all purchases made at the Capitol Hill store at 900 East 11th Avenue will benefit SAME Cafe, at 2023 East Colfax Avenue. According to the Whole Foods website, that store "has been an integral part of the Denver community since ... More >>

Whole Foods "Secret Ingredient" is satisfying food porn

Make fashion out of food for the Whole Foods Challenge

The Commerce City Pizza Crop Circle: A Sign That Extraterrestrials Love Pepperoni?

Papa John's Gets a Pizza the Action

Milking It: Chocolate Chex

Chipotle Bags Brown Rice

Best One-Click Meals

Relish!

McRibbing

A man eats fast food for a month. Guess what happens?

Best Fish Market

Whole Foods

Best Vegetarian Dish in a Non-Vegetarian Restaurant

Chinook Tavern

Cheese Wiz

Mother and daughter bring international wheys to Colorado.

Best restaurant when you're in the Zone

Mercury Cafe

A Stirring Experience

The Big Queasy

The junk-food guinea pigs of Grand Junction have had some strange gut reactions to olestra.

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