Sherry Coleman Collins, Registered Dietitian

11/28/2025

Leftover cranberry sauce? Here’s an idea…Yes, you can use it in your leftover turkey sandwich, but I think it’s spectacular in cookies! The tartness of the cranberries is the perfect foil to the sweetness of the brown sugar and white chocolate chips.

I totally made this recipe up, but it worked out to be approximately the following:
Blend together 1 stick softened butter with 3/4 cup brown sugar and 2 eggs. Mix together 1 1/2 cup AP flour with a pinch of salt and 1 tsp baking soda in a separate bowl. Add to the butter sugar mixture and blend until just combined. Add 1 cup chopped pecans, 1 1/2 cup rolled oats, 1/2 cup white chocolate chips and mix just until combined. Fold in 1/2 cup cranberry sauce. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes or until golden.

If you make these cookies, lmk what you think! They’re a big hit over here.

Happy Baking Friday!

11/24/2025

Looking for a gift for the health-conscious foodie on your list? I was gifted this bottle of EVOO, thank you and , but not paid to post! Let me tell you, this is premium extra virgin olive oil. The flavor is delish, so fresh, herbal and vegetal. Like wine, really good EVOO has unique flavors and this olive oil has been shaped by young olives of specific varieties.

EVOO is in my cooking repertoire every single day. It’s my preferred oil for everything and an oil like this is perfect as a finish to all of the healthy and tasty foods I make. It adds heart healthy monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, and powerful polyphenols, antioxidants that help reduce inflammation and are part of a heart healthy diet.

Highly recommended this EVOO for your holiday (or any day) list.

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11/06/2025

09/15/2025

What do you need to know about gestational diabetes? Read all about it in this article!

Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that happens during pregnancy. Nutrition plays an important role for individuals with this condition.

08/07/2025

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08/04/2025

This was such an enlightening post to write! As a dietitian AND as a mom, it’s scary the amount of really bad (and sometimes dangerous) information is online about food and nutrition. Much of it is targeted at our kids. Read more in the link to the article.

Teenagers get nutrition advice from many sources, including family, friends, health professionals and social media. Unfortunately, the quality of this advice varies.

07/23/2025

Wondering about infant formula safety? Check out this article I wrote for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Because infants are a vulnerable population, it is essential that infant formulas always be safe. The following information can help caregivers when selecting and preparing infant formula.

04/20/2025

“After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.” So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.””
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭28‬:‭1‬-‭10‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Do not be afraid. He is risen. It’s the best day of the year. The reminder of the temporary nature of this life, no matter our troubles, and the promise of life ever after. 🙌

Happy Easter!
He is risen!
He is risen indeed.

09/09/2024

Do you have questions about ultra-processed foods? This is a great piece about this issue from CBS News. I agree that not all processed foods are created equally. In fact, there are healthy processed foods. But most of them are not.

Americans are among the world's biggest consumers of ultra-processed foods, which comprise more than half of an average adult’s diet and two-thirds of a chil...

04/22/2024

Happy Earth Day! Here are five things you can start doing or do more of today to make a difference and show our planet a little more love. Small choices compounded over many days, months and years can make a difference! What food-related choice would you add to my list?

01/10/2024

Pondering all things nutrition today. Sometimes I feel like there’s so much unnecessary controversy. Whenever I run into controversy in the nutrition space, I try to step back and ask questions rather than jump in with a judgment. Why is the topic controversial? Who is driving the controversy? Who stands to benefit or to lose based on who “wins”?

Very often I ask myself how this affects the average person. Does this add to confusion or provide clarity? Does this cause harm?

One hot topic is the concept of processed or ultra processed foods. I feel like most healthcare and nutrition pros agree that the healthiest way for people to eat is to focus on whole foods, mostly of plant origin. Where I think people get tripped up as thinking about the degree of processing of foods, and how that affects nutrition. Some processing is definitely necessary in our food. I’m sorry, but I don’t have the time to make pasta from scratch on a regular. I’m happy to have access to dried pasta and noodles like the ones I ate today and my very simple Ramen bowl. I think people need to know that it’s OK to eat some processed foods. Processing foods can help make foods more convenient and safer. And sometimes processed foods are simply necessary or helpful.

We need to understand that quantity matters. When most people eat a diet that 60% heavily processed foods (a statistic that I heard at my annual nutrition conference last fall), including fast food, or heat and serve foods, it is a problem, contributing far more added sugar and sodium than is healthful.

Context matters. And so does nuance.

I’m not in the business of vilifying food, but we all need to know how to accomplish balance and to make most of our food choices ones that move us toward health and away from disease. As a registered dietitian nutritionist, it’s my goal to help people understand how to choose foods that promote their health - helping them avoid preventable disease and manage their risk and any conditions that come up. I want to help people make choices that lead to longer more productive, more vibrant lives.

Do you feel confused or frustrated about competing messages about what to eat?