Sherry Coleman Collins, Registered Dietitian

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?

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas from our family to you and yours!👨‍👩‍👦🎅🏻

May your Christmas be merry and bright and filled with the light of Christ. ⭐️

12/18/2023

On this day, just seven days before Christmas, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed at all the things yet to be done.

Things professionally yet done. Things personally yet done. The list is long.

At times like these, I have to take stock. What are the things that must be done? What are the things that someone else can do instead? What things do I need to let go of? What things am I carrying are made up of other peoples expectations? What are the best things? What is The Next Right Thing?

I spent much of my life in pursuit of serenity. Christmas time should be a time of contemplation and serenity. However, sometimes I get caught up in all of the things, the expectations, the pressure to be and do.

When I find my hands closed up like fists, holding on to all the things I want and expect from the season, I can take a deep breath and open my hands and ask God to take out what I don’t need so that he can put in what I do need.

The change that needs to happen is always in me. God, grant me the serenity.

11/14/2023

Still hoarding Halloween candy over here! Somehow we ended up with a ridiculous amount of Halloween candy still around weeks after trick or treating was just a memory. The hubs took 1/2 to his office and the rest, well they are slowly making their way into all the cookies around here.

If you still have candy too and want to follow in my footsteps, just add a whole bunch of chopped candy, for me that meant Reese’s PB cups, KitKats, MilkyWay, Twix, and M&Ms, to any basic oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe. I made a big batch before hitting the road on my most recent adventures and they’re pretty much gone already. Cookies don’t last long at our house.

Also…Is it me or did October vanish into thin air? How are we 1/2 way through November already??! 😫 Time slow down. (See my previous post for inspo about that.)

10/22/2023

Last night I made an amazing meal with braised chicken and mushrooms in a sour cream sauce with farro and sautéed greens. I made crème brûlée for us to enjoy for dessert. It was definitely gourmet.👌🏻

Tonight we had soft pretzels with chicken sausage, cheese, and eggplant dip (baba ganoush) - aka snack dinner. V low effort.

It’s called Balance.

Not every meal has to be complicated and fancy and special. Snack dinners are an incredibly easy way to get a meal on the table that everyone will eat. Here’s my basic formula:
🍊🥕 raw fruit and veg
🧀 cheese (if it’s just my family, I only choose one type, but if I’m feeding a bunch of people I’ll add around three)
🍗 protein (can be something easy like this chicken sausage or a bowl full of peanuts)
🥨 carb (in this case, I served soft and mini pretzels, but crackers or baguettes work great too)
🥣 dip (store-bought or homemade work great)
For tonight’s dinner I had some soft pretzels in the freezer that I pulled out and heated up in the oven in about 20 minutes. I browned some Italian chicken sausage, cubed up some cheese, and chopped up some persimmons, carrots, and cucumbers. I had a bunch of eggplant left from the garden and roasted them up to make baba ghanouj for the week so we had that too. The main thing for a snack dinner in my opinion is to provide lots of variety, so everyone has a choice to eat what they might like and it should involve minimal effort. The point is to make dinner easy!

Raise your hand if you also love a snack dinner ! 🙋🏼‍♀️ Tell me what’s on your snack dinner menu in the comments.