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Do Sweet Potatoes Make You Wealthy?

by LisaJohnson on February 13, 2012 - 0 comments

A nation is catching on. From school cafeterias to healthy cooking courses for low-income families, from gourmet restaurants in California to a San Antonio private supper club, people are weaving sweet potato into their lives. Some are taking it to pretty lofty heights. Here’s a quote about a NC chef competition focusing on sweet potatoes: The six dishes created from the sweet potatoes included a ravioli stuffed with goat cheese and purple sweet potato with red pepper sauce, vegetable slaw, …

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Sweet Potato Helped Yvette Lose 105 Pounds

by LisaJohnson on January 31, 2012 - 0 comments

Yvette is one more person making big changes in her life. Congratulations, Yvette, on losing 105 pounds so you can be there for your girls! And among many strategies, changing from potatoes to sweet potatoes is one way she is doing it. Glycemic load can make a huge difference in how our bodies process the food we eat. And a sweet potato is loaded with so many vitamins and minerals, that it’s a superfood in anybody’s book. When changing foods …

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Secret Ingredient for the Best Soups Ever

by LisaJohnson on January 30, 2012 - 0 comments

Homemade soup is the best. It’s usually easy to prepare . . . and the one trick for busy people is that a great soup wants to simmer over a little bit of time to thicken — time you may feel you don’t have. The solution? Sweet potato, of course! Here’s a recipe for a chili with sweet potato: http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/health/wellbeing/22548.html It’s a good soup. But if you are really in a hurry and want to thicken up your soup (without adding …

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Your Sweet Potato Fries Aren’t Naked Enough

by LisaJohnson on January 24, 2012 - 0 comments

Ever wonder what’s in restaurant sweet potato fries? A hint: I especially love that they have a “Stealth(R) coating”. Lamb-Weston is ConAgra’s line of food service products, including many of the delicious sweet potato fries that we all love in restaurants. What’s in their frozen fries for restaurants? Sweet Potatoes, Canola Oil, Modified Food Starch*, Sugar, Rice Flour, Cornstarch, Dextrin*, Salt, Dextrose, Xanthan Gum, Leavening (Disodium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphate*, Sodium Bicarbonate), Colored with Turmeric and Oleoresin Paprika.* I’m sure they have …

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“Learning to be less reliant on bread is the key to success.”

by LisaJohnson on January 23, 2012 - 0 comments

This is a quote by journalist Kathryn Borg, describing the many ways that wheat can cause health problems in humans. I ran natural food coops for 12 years, and met many people who were avoiding wheat and/or gluten, either on doctors’ orders, or voluntarily to improve their overall health. I’ve heard delight and amazement from people who no longer have stomach trouble, no longer have painful joints, and more. Have you had friends or family with this experience? Her suggestion …

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What Enough Food for Toddlers Looks Like

by LisaJohnson on January 19, 2012 - 2 comments

We all think we kinda-sorta know how much food to give a toddler. But last time someone said to you, “small” or “large”, did you know what they meant? How about “close” and “far away”? What about “a little” or “a lot”? Well, that’s exactly why the UK Dept of Education has come up with this fabulous visual chart, showing exactly how much food to give toddlers. Nanny state? I don’t think so, and neither do a lot of the …

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Serial Entrepreneur At Work

by LisaJohnson on January 17, 2012 - 1 comment

Are you an entrepreneur? Ever since I was a kid, I knew I wasn’t going to learn shorthand and be a secretary. My shorthand teacher was disappointed in me. Thank goodness I was willing to let her down. I’ve always been cut out for something else. But it was hard to know what, exactly. But now I know. I’m a serial entrepreneur. I’ve known it for about 20 years now, since I saw my fellow general managers at natural food coops …

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Sweet Potato Everywhere

by LisaJohnson on January 12, 2012 - 0 comments

Three years ago when I started out to make delicious food out of sweet potato, no one was doing it. Ever since we started sampling Yummy Yammy dips, people’s reactions have always been utter surprise and delight, because they’ve never seen the yam used as a food base before, except for fries and the ubiquitous Thanksgiving sweet potato casserole. People are catching up to us. There are now dozens of recipes for sweet potato dips (honestly, none as good as …

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You can get us into Wegman’s

by LisaJohnson on December 22, 2011 - 0 comments

Hello, dearhearts. Are you traveling this holiday season? Going to stop at a Dean & Deluca? Or an east-coast Whole Foods? Or a Wegman’s? I know you’ve been searching for just the right holiday gift for us hard-working Y’Ambassadors, and I’m going to give you a tip on the best present you can offer: Take 10 seconds in any of those stores and ask for Yummy Yammy. Either ask the buyer in person or (even better) write it on a …

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Get Your Free E-Cookbook!

by LisaJohnson on November 6, 2011 - 0 comments

We’ve come up with a treat for our fellow Y’Ambassadors — those of you who have signed up on our website. A free e-cookbook! We cook a lot of sweet potatoes in our house, of course, and our family has come up with several favorites that we want to share with you. It’s a short selection of our favorite family-friendly sweet potato recipes, and we hope you will enjoy your free copy. Just sign up on Yummy Yammy’s homepage, and …

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