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Herbed Blue Cheese Dressing & Dip

Recipes — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:42:44 +0000

Looking for a healthy dressing to spruce up your salads? Serving a veggie plate and need a yummy but healthy dip? Expert Chef Erin Dow walks you through her quick and easy three-star recipe that does double time as a dressing and dip.

Guiding Stars Overview

Allison Stowell — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:08:53 +0000

Eating great doesn’t have to be a challenge–just follow the Guiding Stars! Consulting Dietician Allison Stowell explains how to use our simple food-rating system to figure out which foods will give you you the best nutritional bang for your calorie-buck.

Holiday Everyday Punch

Recipes — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:26:17 +0000

Do you grimace with distaste every time you ladle out a punch that's fuzzed over with half-melted sherbet? Do you glance at the sugar content of the ginger ale and juice on traditional recipes and despair? Expert Chef Erin Dow shows Scientific Advisor Lori Kaley how to shake things up at this New Year's celebration with a punch overflowing with nutrients and flavor, not corn syrup.

Expert Chef Erin on WCSH6

Recipes — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:11:22 +0000

Our Expert Chef Erin Dow visited The Morning Report on WCSH6 and helped Jackie Ward prepare her Pumped Up Pumpkin Bread. Check it out. All 100 cookbooks are gone, but you can still get the electronic version here. You can also view her interview portion below:

Cereal Aisle

Allison Stowell — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:35:02 +0000

The cereal aisle can be a confusing place for everyone. Look for the labels with at least one Guiding Star to know that your family is choosing an option with more whole grains, vitamins and minerals.

Drinking Juice

Allison Stowell — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:54:09 +0000

A little juice goes a long way - a recommended serving is only 4 oz. Try mixing it with mineral water or seltzer to make the drink go further. Choose only juices with 100% fruit juice, avoiding sweeteners (real and artificial).

Recipe Riffs Episode 1: Your Guide To Finding the Stars in Local Food

Erin Dow — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:30:02 +0000

Recently, I found myself back in my hometown of Fort Kent, ME, serving as the caterer and concessionaire for a leg of the IBU Biathlon World Cup. While I was there I took my crew to visit Joey and Janice Bouchard, the owners/operators of Bouchard Family Farms, where ployes, the traditional buckwheat pancake endemic to northern Maine and Atlantic Canada, are produced. After Janice invited everyone into her kitchen for a taste of their products, the Bouchards took us on a tour of their buckwheat mill. We learned about the buckwheat plant--an herb in the rhubarb family--and we learned that their variety of buckwheat has a neutral taste unlike other species; best of all, buckwheat is gluten free.

Simplify Your Grocery Experience Teaser

Jaica Kinsman — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:51:17 +0000

At Guiding Stars, we realize the supermarket can be a hectic place and decoding nutrition labels can be confusing... so we created a food rating system with easy-to-follow tags to help simplify your shopping process.

In grocery stores featuring the program, you can find Guiding Stars throughout the store-- in produce, packaged food aisles, seafood, dairy, the meat counter, and the bakery. You will also find Guiding Stars on shelf unit price tags for foods earning stars, and even on private label brand packaging.

Check out our latest video!

“207″: Guiding Stars a Top Fitness Website

Jaica Kinsman — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:30:58 +0000

In case you missed last night's news magazine show "207," Guiding Stars was included among the best fitness websites. Tech guru Rich Brooks highlights Guiding Stars ease of use, scientific base, newly launched Expert Chef Erin Dow and Shopper iPhone app.

Trouble viewing the video? Watch the segment on the 207 Web site. Guiding Stars starts at 3:56.

Rich Brooks: The Best Fitness Websites

207 is a news magazine show produced by WCSH6 the NBC station in Portland, Maine. 207 is hosted by Rob Caldwell and Kathleen Shannon and runs Monday through Friday at 7pm and Saturdays at 7:30pm.

C-SPAN Video | Tracy Fox on childhood obesity

Jaica Kinsman — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:24:12 +0000

Guiding Stars Scientific Advisor, Tracy Fox, joins C-SPAN's Washington Journal to talk about childhood obesity & factors that contribute to the growing number of overweight & obese Americans. Running time: 28 min...