As owner of Healthy Endeavors, a health coaching and consulting firm, Wendy Battles-Plasse believes creating a healthy lifestyle is an adventure — full of discovery, insights and unexpected stops along the path to better health. She infuses her interactive and engaging presentations with fun, humor, and a host of important information to get participants into action. Wendy is a master meal planner, adept at the art of planning healthy, quick and delicious meals with an eye to the bottom line. Once a huge food waster, she passionately shares her meal planning knowledge with busy individuals everywhere using her Money Saving Meal Planning Home Study Course (http://MoneySavingMealPlanning.com), a simple, sustainable system that creates healthy results week after week. Wendy also loves inspiring women to take their health to heart. As a health coach and optimal health expert, she helps overcommitted, stressed out, less than healthy women, to slow down, tune in and reclaim great health, setting them up for success in all parts of their lives. With a personal mission to help reduce the rate of heart disease, the number one killer of women, she’s inspiring 1 million women to take the Take Your Health To Heart Challenge, www.TakeYourHealthToHeart.com, and joyfully embrace improved heart health. Wendy holds a Master’s degree in Community Psychology from the University of New Haven, located in West Haven, Connecticut, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Lake Forest College, located in Lake Forest, Illinois. Wendy is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, which is accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. She is also certified in the Co-Active Coaching Model and a member of the National Speakers Association. Wendy is available as a keynote speaker, workshop/seminar leader and teleclass presenter. She works with a range of corporations, non-profits, women’s groups and professional associations, helping organizations recognize the connection between enhanced employee health and improved business results.
To say I'm enamored with quinoa is probably an understatement. This delicious, gluten-free grain is a staple of our clean eating lifestyle. Barely a week goes by when I don't make up a batch and turn it into a healthy side dish or main dish. Quinoa is super easy to make, quick cooking and takes on the flavor of almost anything you add. Plus it's low-fat and low-cal to boot! Not bad for an ancient grain from South America. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Have you ever bought a bunch of herbs for the purpose of a recipe but you only needed a tablespoon or two? And then you promptly forget about the rest of the bunch and let it go bad? That's happened to me in the past, but with a little pre-planning, I've found some simple ways to use my herbs of choice in a series of different recipes to get the maximum value. When I'm on top of my herb game, I can easily use the whole bunch up with no waste! I'll show you three different ways to use cilantro....