Green Divas Foodie-Philes

Green Diva Meg chats with Maria Rodale about the inspiration for her new cookbook Scratch. A warm and hearty conversation about why cooking real whole food from scratch is so wonderful for us and the planet.

GD Meg had a chance to speak with Samara Geller of EWG about their new report on BPA in food packaging -- yikes! Find out how you can learn more and minimize your BPA intake.

Learn about the Suppers Programs, which are dinner meetings designed to help people who have a variety of health issues that can be helped by clean healthy eating.

Sonya Lunder, senior analyst for EWG (Environmental Working Group) explains why strawberries have risen to the top of their annual Dirty Dozen list of fruits and vegetables that have been tested to have the highest pesticide levels.

There are so many advances in vegan food technology that is making it easier and easier to eat a plant-based diet. TV personality and foodie Ashlee Piper talks about it with us in this great Green Divas Foodie-Phile segment.

Giselle Achecar, aka Eco-Rico, talked to us about how toxic shrimp can be and why we need to find sustainable sources for healthy shrimp.

Ever wonder how to make that delicious kimchi at home or why it is so good for you? The Hungry Gopher, who also happens to be Korean tells us all about it.

A great conversation with Dr. Karen Lee (aka EcoKaren) about how and why to eat more sustainably.

Ali Hoffman is one of our awesome green divas with the green thumb, but she recently became a bee keeper, so she talks about organic honey -- what it really means.

Giselle Achesar, AKA EcoRico talks about why we should avoid bleached flour.

Great conversation with Jerry James Stone about how he survives the holidays as a vegetarian. We talked about a fun video he and Ed Begley, Jr. did about vegan holidays too.

Some great tips for helping kids get a healthier lunch with Diana Rice of Meatless Monday.

A wonderful and practical segment with Holli Thompson about how to keep your kitchen stocked with all the basics for healthy meals.

well, who knew cannabis could be such a culinary delight and have health benefits? Robyn Griggs Lawrence knows wrote the Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook, so she knows! Fun and interesting Green Divas Foodie-Phile.

We talk to Becky Striepe about easy, safe refrigerator pickles made from all kinds of veggies AND fruit.

The Green Divas chat about all their foodie adventures in Chicago from organic juice in Barrington to Karyn's Raw and Karyn's Cooked in the windy city as well as a decadent breakfast at Troquet.

Holli Thompson gives us a great 101 on grains. Why you should eat them, how you should eat them, what kind you should try, and recipes.

Holli Thompson talks about why we should consider bone broth and offers us some tips on making it.

Warm up with this awesome Green Divas Foodie-Phile segment featuring Diana Rice, Registered Dietician of Meatless Mondays who offers some great meatless winter meals.

JL Fields talks about her new book, Vegan Pressure Cooking, and if you were wary of pressure cooking because of some of the horror stories, get over it. There are new pressure cookers that are safe and you can do SO much with them.

What an inspiration Karyn Calabrese is! She is the vibrant force behind Karyn's Raw foods, author and restauranteur, who shares her formula for living healthy (and why she looks so amazing).

GD Meg has created a better butter coffee. Based on the popular wellness craze of bulletproof coffee, which is touted to help boost metabolism and brain function, GD Meg has developed her own recipe that is as delicious as it is nutritious.

Can't complain when you are flown to Hawaii to conduct a smoothing and juicing workshop with all organic, local and exotic fruits and veggies! On the heals of our trip to Kalani for the Puna Culinary Festival, here is a Green Divas Foodie-Phile podcast to wet your whistle. You'll be inspired to dust off that blender and get yourself a juicer . .

Jared Koch, founder and author of Clean Plates, talks w/ Green Diva Meg about the importance of eating clean, what that means and how we achieve it.

Dr. Blythe Metz, author, raw foodie, actress among many talents chatted with GD Meg about how to make healthy, low-stress meals in 5 minutes or less. Beware - you'll get hungry!

Seem unappetizing? Consider that grasshopper protein pound for pound is not only healthier, but uses a 1000 times less water to produce than beef. Jack Ceadel, founder of Hopper foods sees insects and grasshoppers in particular as an extremely eco-friendly source of healthy protein. Interesting podcast. Not as creepy crawly as you think . . .

Green Diva Giselle Achecar, of Eco Rico TV shares with us some eggsellent reasons to chose organic eggs, and she talks about some of her best recipes using organic eggs.

Food waste is a huge problem and if we all did our best to reduce our personal household food waste, it would definitely help. Lindsay Coulter, Queen of Green for David Suzuki Foundation does a great Green Divas Foodie-Phile segment/podcast on tips to help us reduce food waste.

A great way to support family or friends that may be struggling with illness, new baby or some type of challenge, is to create a food circle, which encourages other folks in the community to help by making meals. Great podcast with the Queen of Green, Lindsay Coulter from the David Suzuki Foundation.

Michael Edwards founder and Editor-in-chief of Organic Lifestyle Magazine talks about why we should consider raw milk (if you do dairy) and how you can find it.

If you are a vegetarian or vegan, you've been asked no less than a thousand times, "but how do you get your protein?" excellent Green Divas Foodie-Phile segment with Diana Rice, registered dietician for Meatless Monday. Diana dispels the myth of 'not getting enough protein as a vegetarian, and shares some great vegetable-based protein sources. And hear GD Meg talk about making avocado brownies for Dr. Oz as an illustration of surprising sources of protein!

A great podcast featuring Terra Wellington, who talks about easy ways to transition to a more veggie-based diet - NO, she isn't saying you have to go vegan or even vegetarian, just eat more healthy veggies! Some great tips and ideas.

Fun Green Divas Foodie-Phile segment featuring Charles Chen of Raw Youth talking about the benefits of switching from caffeine to Yerba Mate.

What a great and delicious podcast featuring Green Diva Giselle from Eco Rico TV talking about fair trade chocolate. yum.

A perfect way to talk about food for Earth Day! You definitely don't have to be a vegan or a vegetarian to help momma earth with your food choices. Great GD Foodie-Phile featuring Meatless Monday's Diana Rice.

GD Becky Striepe does an excellent foodie-phile segment on the delicious simplicity of eating 'bowl' meals. It is the habit of many vegans, but omnivores can enjoy it as easily. Get creative with bowls!

Great to have awesome green diva Kate Bartolotta do her first GD Foodie-Phile segment about juicing. She includes a yummy green juice recipe too!

Who knew? Dried basil seeds are very similar to chia seeds, only in some cases better and cheaper. GD Lisa shares some great information and a couple of recipes too!

Green Diva Gina does an excellent job telling us about some common foods that help our bodies detox.

Did you know there was a national pistachio day? Did you know it is in February? GD Gina does a great Foodie-Phile report all about pistachios and why we should love them.