January, 2002

Why do people make a solemn promise on New Year's Day to lose weight, eat healthy, exercise...and then, on February first, eat all the leftover fruitcake while watching an all-day "Cheers" marathon?

Extreme promises made in the glow (and hangover) of a New Year and on the holiday bloated stomach don't work. We're waiting for Jenny Craig to come out with the New Year's Resolution Diet.

One way you can prevent yourself from making impossible promises is to forget about the last holiday. Then, when Thanksgiving Day and the Christmas parties approach again, resolve to make small but meaningful changes in the way that you celebrate.

But in January, there are 300+ eating days until Christmas. How do you get through the rest of the year?

LivingRight can help. Resolve to buy fewer 'prepared' meals and grab fewer 'nutrition' bars. Instead, use our dehydrators to create well-preserved fruit and vegetable snacks that you can eat year round.

Resolve to drink more power drinks, such as Soy Power Milk that you can now make more easily using the Miracle Soy Wonder Soy Milk Maker, and eat more oatmeal, since January is Oatmeal Month. You can grind your own oat flour and make our Oat Flour Muffins, or use whole oats to make Heaven Honey-Fruit Oat Granola.

Also, January is National Soup Month and National Hot Tea Month. What's more soothing in winter than green tea and chicken noodle or tomato soup?

It's also National Bread Machine Baking Month, and baking fresh bread is easier than you imagine with our selection of grain mills, blenders, Cuisinart food processors, and the Miracle mill .

Resolve to succeed and eat your way, deliciously and healthfully, to success!