Diana Dyer, MS, RD

Still no time to blog, but.......

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Wed, 08 May 2013 00:53:00 +0000

A while ago I chimed in on a professional listserv of oncology dietitians (my friends and my professional peers) with my 2¢ regarding an article recently published pointing out the inconsistent information on the internet about cancer and nutrition information, which caught the attention of Dr....

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

A Spring Morning

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:13:00 +0000

I don’t have time to blog, but I cannot help myself this morning. :) Spring is rushing to catch up, it is literally ‘popping’ before our eyes and ears. It is as if it has been held back behind a dam, but the gates have finally opened, and now, look out!, here it comes. I am used to being able...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Wild weather and winter are still flying high (and more)

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:22:00 +0000

Just when I thought it was time to put away the winter coats and my turtleneck shirts, WHAM! comes winter roaring back again along with tornado watches, crazy wind, and rain, rain, rain, and more rain (the hail missed our farm). Our garlic is fine but the cold weather, some snow, combined with ALL...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Easter Sunday Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:21:00 +0000

The rain and gray clouds from this morning are almost gone, the snow piles are almost gone, the ice on the pond is almost gone, there is not too much mud :), we have no flowers blooming yet, but it's warm enough to walk around the farm without a winter coat. No matter the weather tomorrow, no...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Follow-up – Happiness :)

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:34:00 +0000

How often do I post up something from Youtube? Let alone tell my readers "GO WATCH THIS!" At the very least this video will surely bring a smile to your face. :) I'll give you a few hints - it is about food, it is about good food, it is about sharing good food, it is about growing and...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

At last, catching up a bit

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:20:00 +0000

Yesterday our farm participated in a community event that was in essence 'speed dating' between the public and the local farms that offer a CSA (community supported agriculture), which is a partnership between a family/individual and the farm where the farmer is paid up front at the beginning of...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Nutrition Basics – FOOD

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:17:00 +0000

Several years ago I read a definition of CR*P (as it related to food), liked it a lot, and then could never find it again. The definition above seems to fit rather well with my various posts about junk (as it relates to food). I don't know if this definition is identical to the the one I first...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

National Dietitian Day 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Last year I was so busy at this time that I had to be reminded it was National Registered Dietitian (RD) Day by one of my young friends who is an "RD 2B". Thanks Dayna! :) This year I've been thinking about it a bit ahead of time, instead of after the fact like last year. Those of you who...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Recipe: Spicy Kidney Beans on Rice

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0000

This recipe was born because I had lots of cooked kidney beans still waiting to be used after my husband made chili on Super Bowl Sunday. I also have been looking at a can of coconut milk on my pantry shelf, knowing it would taste great in any dish with delicious SE Asian flavors. Then...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

A new favorite dog photo!

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:17:00 +0000

I am finally taking a morning to download, view, sort, and label photos that have been in my camera for weeks and weeks. I won't get them all done this morning, but I found this one of Phoebe taken the morning of February 27 as we waded out into our last 'big snow'. We had 'only' 6 inches but it...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

A new favorite poem

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:26:00 +0000

What a perfect poem and the perfect time of the year to find it! I was reading Wendell Berry's poems in his book A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979 - 1997, wondering if I should keep it to read all the way to the end or take the book back to the library today when I knew I would be driving...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

"Get a border collie!"

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:18:00 +0000

From the comment section following today's NYTimes article about the benefits of a Mediterranean diet for reducing risk of heart attacks is this precious sentence from a woman named Carole who is in her 80's: "I have my own remedy for avoiding the "grim reaper" as long as possible. It's...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Junk 'food' is just junk!

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:20:00 +0000

‎"What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles — to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive. " From the New York Times article The Extraordinary Science of Junk Food,...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Drudgery follow up

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:32:00 +0000

I haven't heard from anyone (yet) who is thinking that I sounded like an 'old fuddy duddy' in yesterday's post, stuck in out-dated ideas and feelings. In fact, I have heard just the opposite. I often include food blessings, words of gratitude, when I post up a recipe. I am grateful beyond the...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Drudgery?? Really??

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:17:00 +0000

From the home page of the New York Times today: New services are delivering ready-to-cook ingredients for recipes that can be made quickly, the latest innovation to promise Americans relief from kitchen drudgery. Relief from kitchen drudgery? Really? I didn't even read the rest of the...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Dinner at The House of Garlic (that's us)

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:59:00 +0000

We only have a couple of months in which we can breathe a little more deeply, clean up the house a bit, cook and eat at a normal time instead of 9-10 pm, and also get together with friends. Last night we had some of our 'young-new' farmer friends over for dinner. (We're also still new, but we're...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Sunrise on the farm

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:26:00 +0000

.......with Phoebe in the lead. Our snow melted during a January thaw, but really cold weather is now back with the ground frozen and Phoebe running over the property each morning searching out traces of the night time animal life, all of which she views as intruding into her ordered domain. I...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Recipe: Garlic Wafers

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:50:00 +0000

I'm always looking for recipes that feature garlic, not just with garlic as one of many ingredients. I don't exactly remember how I found the following recipe for Garlic Wafers, which are not crackers, but like chips that are totally made from garlic. The recipe (which I first saw printed in The...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Fighting Cancer - from Apples to Apps!

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:31:00 +0000

I still have a 'dumb-phone' so I don't know much yet about 'apps', but my dietitian friends at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston are well ahead of me technology-wise. They have developed the content for a free app for an iPhone that provides easy to use information about healthy foods and...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

New Favorite Proverb

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:17:00 +0000

I read a short proverb last night that might become my new favorite, at least for the next three months: "One kind word can warm three winter months." ~~ Japanese Proverb I have had time to read our holiday letters from friends while they came in this year, and now I am reading...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Happy New Year 2013!

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:36:00 +0000

Wow - my first time to write '2013'. Wow - I didn't realize it had been so many weeks since I wrote anything here (December 10). Wow - it's time to change the photo at the top of my blog, even though there are reports of sandhill cranes still hanging around my county this winter,...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Facebook Fans

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:19:00 +0000

As of this morning, there are 400 people out in Facebook Land who have pushed the 'Like' section on our farm's page. We are surprised, honored, and thank them very much! I know the 2013 garlic marketing season seems like a long way off from now, but we hope most of them are local enough to shop...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

Soil Day follow up

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:38:00 +0000

This morning was an unplanned 'lazy (rainy) morning'. Of course there is work to do in the barn (and I could always vacuum up the dog fur in the house - smile), but my husband and I both agreed that the barn work was not urgent, and the fur will also need vacuuming tomorrow, so instead I did some...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

World Soil Day - December 5 - Local Foods

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:00:00 +0000

I'll start right out by saying this blog post might seem like a ramble, but I hope I come around full circle eventually. An editor would make me write and re-write this posting, which of course is one benefit of personal blogging - no editor! Ok, let's get to work. :) Here is my favorite Q&A...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.

The current most popular posts - holiday desserts!

noreply@blogger.com (Diana Dyer) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:28:00 +0000

Why am I surprised? :) I am getting ready to make these two recipes myself, so I want to give you the past links to the two most requested posts (i.e. both are holiday recipes) on my blog at the current time. (1) Date-Walnut Loaf - as easy as can be to throw together. Do it now and put these...

Diana Dyer, a Registered Dietitian and author of the inspiring and informative book A Dietitian's Cancer Story, shares her thoughts on her blog about cancer survivorship, food and nutrition, our environment, and life.