Check out my progress on Tales from an Ex-Magazine Junkie
Truth: I’m kind of a magazine junkie. I signed up for my first subscription (for Self Magazine) at the tender age of 15, and I’ve been accumulating additional subscriptions in the health genre ever since. Something about the unique mix of nutrition and fitness information enticed me, so much so that I wanted to become a magazine journalist until my junior year of college (and I would still love to be able to combine my passion for nutrition and writing some day).
However, recently I have been finding it impossible to keep up with my ever-growing stash of mags:
Yep, in this stack alone, you’ll see multiple issues of:
- Real Simple
- Fitness
- Runner’s World
- Clean Eating
- Journal of the American Dietetic Association
Sigh. I miss my high school days when I would drop everything to peruse those glossy pages, from cover-to-cover.
What are some of your favorite magazines? Do you have subscriptions to any of them? Clean Eating is by far my favorite, but I think each of the magazines listed above offer a unique perspective on health.
Although I don’t have time for my magazines, I do have time for cooking…
Coconut butter has fast become my favorite oatmeal topping—it’s incredibly satiating, super-delicious, and full of potentially heart disease-preventing medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs). I just wish it had as much protein as nut butters.
For lunch, I packed a colorful salad to be enjoyed amidst class/work. My Ginger Peanut Dressing was the perfect addition.
Dinner-time presented an opportunity for experimentation in that I set about preparing a new kind of squash: Sweet Dumpling squash. Ultimately, I decided to stuff it with couscous, white beans, pistachios, & cranberries—a hybrid of a recipe from my own Grape Pistachio Couscous and a recipe I found online for Quinoa Stuffed Sweet Dumpling Squash. It was indeed a sweet squash—sweeter than say, an acorn squash. Yum!
Alright, I must now prepare for my Julia Child presentation tomorrow. Toodles.
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Caroline Yoder, dietitian-to-be and all-around foodie.
I subscribe to Food Network and Rachael Ray. Those two take the cake for me.
I don’t subscribe to any magazines but grab at any I find lying around. I mostly go through The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, and other “things to do in NY” magazines. I also buy BUST every once in a while, or pick up a food magazine.
My biggest problem is that I keep them around to cut up for collages or for articles or recipes I’ll “get to someday”…so I have stacks and stacks of outdated magazines that are already all cut up because I’m sure I’ll find something new “This one last time I go through it!”
Terrible, really. What do you do with your old copies?
loveeeee the coconut butter + raspberry combo! it is the BEST
I am a magazine junkie, too—- mine run the gamut from cooking (Clean Eating & Cooking Light) to crafts (Interweave Knits) to urban homesteading (Mother Earth News) to informative (National Geographic). I wish I had more time to look through them all!
I’m curious about the medium-chain fatty acids in Coconut butter. I am taking a Nutrition course right now and my professor went on a tangent today about how bad coconut oil is for you, whether it’s the new “en vogue” healthy fat right now or not (her words). She says it’s still a saturated fat. Are you taking nutrition classes and what have you learned about it?
I’ve had a subscription to Rolling Stone since I was 16. That’s a long time. The only other magazine I read with any regularity is Eating Well. I’ve considered subscription, but haven’t gotten around to it yet. Oh yeah, and I still have all of the Rolling Stone’s I’ve ever received.
If you find the coconut butter to not be as satiating as nut butters, why not use a milk with more protein than almond milk to counter balance it? Just a thought.
i am a little ridiculous with my subscriptions! they are just such a cheap thrill to me (i often look for deals when i get them). ready? i get:
– women’s running
– runner’s world
– self
– shape (though i’m kinda tired of this one)
– clean eating (of course)
– cooking light
– women’s health (boring and will d/c)
– real simple (LOVE)
– elle
– i used to love paste, a music/pop culture mag, but it got discontinued!
lately i’m thinking of adding a home mag like dwell to the list. or body and soul. i know – obscene
I love Real Simple and Runner’s
It’s such a simple pleasure to read them cover to cover!
Though I have to find the time to read them, there are few mags I enjoy and get sent to the house – Clean Eating (is great), Food Network, Cooking Light, Runners World & Rachel Ray.
Oh man. I have a serious magazine problem. I don’t keep up with them very well and my pile of back issues is ridiculous. I just recently finished SELF from September 2008. That’s sad.
ooo I wish I was still taking classes so that I could see your presentation!!!!
I have way too many magazine subscriptions – in fact, I’m going to cancel or not renew most of them. I think I am going to stick with Cooking Light and Runners World as my two subscriptions.
I am also a magazine junkie! Shape, Health, Self, Vegetarian Times, VegNews, Reader’s Digest, Ladies Home Journal and Red Book, off the top of my head. Some of those are definitely guilty pleasure magazines
I’ve been buying Clean Eating off the rack for a while now – need to just go ahead and get a subscription!
Here, here! I am another magazine junkie. There’s something about them that makes them irresistable. And I couldn’t agree more, that Clean Eating is one of the best.
Good luck on the Julia Childs presentaiton!
Your pictures are really pretty, I love the black back drop. Clean eating magazine is definitely my favorite.
oxygen and clean eating are two subs that i wish i had! i also wish i had the time to sit and read mags haha because i realllly suck at books. i also admiringly love oprah mag!
I’m a total zine queen. Just love those glossy slick pages. RW, Fitness, Shape, Women’s Health, Food Network, Glamour, Marie Claire, Lucky. My friends and I swap and circulate our fashion mags so it’s less out of pocket and sort of recycling.
Gotta try that sweet dumpling squash! Always looking for appealing veggies.
I used to love Rolling Stone and Shape but I don’t have much time to read them anymore. Occasionally I’ll read my roommate’s Cosmo if it’s lying around. Btw, I just recently found your blog and I’m so glad I did! I love your posts and all your pictures of your food, it all looks delicious!
I love magazines as well, although the last couple of years I’ve really tried to cut back to just the ones I enjoy the most. Right now I get Whole Living, VegNews, Vegetarian Times, Mother Earth News, and Reminisce.