Miracle Noodle Blog

How to Prevent Energy Crashes after Eating Part 1 of 3
The shrieking cacophony of your alarm jolts you out of bed way too early for your own liking. The only thing that will make you feel like you’re not a zombie is gulping down a cup or two of coffee. If you have time to make anything for breakfast, it’s most likely just a piece of toast. Your day is so busy that you don’t have time to eat anything else until 1:00 or 2:00 p.m. Maybe for lunch, you’ll scarf a turkey sandwich with wheat bread, mayo and tomatoes... Read more...
Best Ways to Prevent Weight Gain at Work (Part 2)
In the first part of this blog on learning how to prevent weight gain at work, drinking lots of water, working at a standing station and bringing healthy snacks to work were the three tips covered. Here are three more ways to stay healthy during the work week…. Do mini-workouts throughout the day If going to the gym for 90-120 minutes a night is impossible or sounds like the last thing on Earth you’d want to do, no problem. It’s actually healthier to break up your periods of movement into... Read more...
How to go Gluten Free the Easy Way
If you’re gluten-free, one of the most heart-wrenching--or gut wrenching--decisions you'll have to make is the decision to forgo pasta of all kinds. Noodles typically come from durum or semolina wheat, which are not ancient, heirloom varieties of wheat such as ‘emmer’ (farro) or ‘einkorn’, and therefore, contain genetic derivations in the gluten, potentially leading to something as innocuous as slightly fatter love handles, or conditions far more serious than bloating like celiac disease. It is sad indeed, tragic if you’re a true foodie, to not be able to enjoy... Read more...
Miracle Noodle Kugel: A Healthier Kugel
Say you’re at a dinner party and the host offers you a dessert platter of milk, eggs, raisins, cinnamon and cottage cheese, you might think these individual foods are a post-dinner oddity. But whipped up together, these ingredients form perhaps the most popular Eastern European Jewish dessert: kugel. Since the middle ages, noodles have been used in kugel recipes. Several hundred years later, noodle kugel is enjoyed by Jews around the world, heralding, observing and celebrating Shabbat and Jewish holidays and celebrations. For those who love eating kugel but are... Read more...
Are Gluten-Free Breads Healthy?
Count your lucky stars if you don’t have Celiacs Disease, an autoimmune disorder--meaning, the body attacks itself--that results in the destruction of the tiny finger-like protrusions of the small intestine called villi. The villi, though they are diminutive in size, play a gigantic role in health. They absorb nutrients from food and aid in the delivery of nutrients to the trillions of cells in the body. People who are diagnosed by a medical doctor with Celiac Disease often have to give up the tastiest treats: crackers, chips, cookies, cakes, pasta... Read more...
Your Bubbie's Chicken Fat Might Have Been Healthy After All
For the younger generation of Jews or anybody else who has recently adopted a kosher diet, this condiment might seem a little odd, and even downright unappetizing:  chicken fat. Better known as ‘schmaltz,’ chicken fat was a major ingredient to cook with for Ashkenazi Jews, who had little or no access to olive oil that Jews living in the Middle East were accustomed to cooking with. A common feature of Jewish delis in the U.S. decades ago were pourable containers of schmaltz on the table. At one time as ubiquitous... Read more...
Chopped Liver: It's What's (Should Be) For Dinner (From Time to Time)
“What am I … chopped liver?”.... Certainly you've heard the colloquialism; a rhetorical question that implies you are being ignored, dissed, slighted, avoided or downright disliked by someone. The expression gained popularity because, well, most people do not like liver. While it’s true that liver is an acquired taste, eaten on occasion, organ meats like chicken liver can be a healthy addition to the diet, provided the livers come from Glatt kosher sources. Here’s why liver is good for you…. Fat-soluble vitamins You’ve likely heard of water- and fat-soluble vitamins,... Read more...
Share your Miracle Story, inspire others to health
I want to sincerely thank you for joining the Miracle Noodle newsletter. Sure, we can continue selling Miracle Noodle in supermarkets throughout the world and online, but without your feedback, engagement and advocacy--talking up Miracle Noodle through social media--Miracle Noodle is incomplete, sort of like eating Miracle Noodle plain without healthy lean protein and veggies and natural fat. In other words, Miracle Noodle’s sales figures aren’t the only bottom line; it’s hearing your success stories that gives the Miracle Noodle team the most satisfaction. Speaking of which, we’d love to... Read more...
Want to Lose Weight? Learn to Manage Stress
Wouldn’t it be so much easier to live like a caveman? Wake up, forage for some berries, hunt some wild game, eat, nap, shape and sharpen tools, perhaps procreate, tend to the fire, eat leftovers, call it a day. The only two stressors our Neolithic ancestors faced, granted they were big ones: finding/hunting enough food and getting devoured by potential food sources like sabertooth tigers. Now think about how many stressors you have: paying the bills, taking care of kids, going through a divorce or trying to save a tenuous... Read more...
Recipe for Low-Carb Sesame Noodles
What do you think when you hear the words ‘noodles’ or ‘pasta’? Perhaps a rotund Italian male, wearing a faded, white tank-top shirt, covered by a sauce-stained bib? Whatever your association, noodles and pasta elicit a primordial pleasure response in the brain, a salivating Pavlovian physiological trigger. Why, then, do low-carb dieters avoid noodles and pasta like a malarial swamp? Because they are high-starch foods that rapidly convert into sugar, causing pancreases to pump insulin in an effort to escort the sugars broken down from the pasta into the cells.... Read more...
Sweet Potatoes Can Help Fight Diabetes
The main carbohydrate (read: sugar) source of the typical American dinner is either pasta, rice or potatoes. Anybody who is trying to keep their blood sugar down and improve their diabetes knows that these carbohydrates quickly convert into sugar during the digestion process, releasing a surge of insulin. This axis-of-evil blood-sugar-spikers are not a smart dining option for those looking to lose weight or lower their blood sugar levels. Dinners are most often consumed at around 7:00 p.m. Few Americans go for very long walks after dinner or engage in... Read more...
What's the Best Sweetener for Diabetics?
For someone trying to live a low-carb life in hopes of improving diabetes, it’s imperative to pick a sweetener for your tea or coffee, favorite dessert, homemade yogurt and ice cream, iced tea or once-in-a-blue-moon soda. Which sweetener is the best for diabetics? There are several options, including popular artificial sweetener brands like Splenda®, Sweet-N-Low®, Equal® and others which also contain synthetically-sweet additives such as aspartame, xylitol, erythritol, maltitol, sorbitol and saccharine. Any green thumbs out there? Love to plant chrysanthemums? One herb in the family of these perennial flowering... Read more...