I was watching Oprah the other day and she had a doctor on the show explaining which foods are really good for you and which foods you should avoid at all costs. Of course, I already knew about the bad foods – saturated fat, sugar, etc. And most of the good foods were pretty obvious too like spinach and olive oil. But, did you know that tomato sauce is an amazing antioxidant? Not raw tomatoes (which I hate) but cooked tomato sauce! The antioxidant lycopene is highly concentrated in cooked tomatoes and the oil in the sauce helps your body absorb it. This is great because I could eat pasta with tomato sauce once a week anyway and now I’m being told that I have to. Doctor’s orders. He suggested 10 tablespoons of tomato sauce every week. Another food that is really good for you is pomegranate (and not just because you get a workout trying to get all of those seeds out of the shell.) It’s good for the arteries and may help prevent cancer. I had bought a bottle of pomegranate molasses at my local Indian market a while back so I pulled that out of the cupboard and, even though it is sweet and syrupy, the label says it contains only concentrated pomegranate juice with no added sugar. I may try mixing it with club soda or do a pomegranate-glazed salmon with cous cous. I’ll let you know how it turns out.