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  • Sweet and Savory Power Tuna Salad – All in Pictures

    Feb 10, 2014

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Not too long ago, I showed how to turn plain old tuna salad into much more flavorful and nutritious POWER TUNA SALAD by replacing high fat, high calorie mayonnaise with high protein, low calorie non-fat plain Greek yogurt. I’ll write…

  • Sugar Is NOT Just Sugar

    Feb 7, 2014

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Until about a month ago, I believed all sugars were about the same. Wrong. Briefly, as shown in the diagram below,… …sucrose – white table sugar – is made of one part glucose (the energy of life) and one part…

  • “Snowful” Exuberance!

    Feb 5, 2014

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Anyone else have a tough time going to sleep last night knowing a good pounding of snow was on the way today? I’d only first heard it was really coming as I finished up a terrific winter walk in the…

  • Power Tuna Salad Step-By-Step Video

    Feb 1, 2014

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

      Click this link or the picture above for a short step-by-step video that uses a combination of video, sound and text-over-video to show how to make power tuna salad that substitutes high fat and calorie mayonnaise with high protein,…

  • Snow Changing Perspective

    Jan 29, 2014

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    It’s about perspective. Sometimes you don’t get what you want, but what you do get turns out even better – if you give it a chance. I remember the weather guess about a week and half ago calling for just…

  • Transforming Plain Tuna Salad into Power Tuna Salad

    Jan 27, 2014

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Here’s a quick and easy way to substitute traditional mayonnaise, which is high in fat and calories, with non-fat, high-protein plain Greek Yogurt (2-3 times the protein content of regularly processed plain yogurt) along with a little mustard to turn…

  • What I’ve Learned From 1 Week of Coffee Without Sugar

    Jan 25, 2014

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Earlier this week I wrote that I was going to try a full 7 days of coffee without sugar in an effort to be more personally aware of how much sugar I take in day to day. Yesterday was day 8.…

  • Pre-XC-Ski Lower Sugar Power Breakfast

    Jan 24, 2014

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Doing the sugar research I’ve been doing lately has made me look a lot more closely at my own sugar intake. In the last piece, I wrote about cutting sugar completely for a week from the coffee I look forward…

  • Coffee Without Sugar – Why and Ugh So Far

    Jan 21, 2014

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Whoa, there have been times in my life I sucked down way more sugar than I needed and sure paid a heavy – well over 200 pound – price for it. Not too long ago, even though my weight has…

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I help people feel comfortable making a meal on their own – even if they’ve never boiled water – through Gotta’ Eat, Can’t Cook picture book recipes and help make roads safe for all with Breitz! “6 Feet, Thanks!” performance wear. Naval Intelligence Officer veteran, BikeWalkNC VP, dad of 3, avid cyclist, scrappy runner.

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