Daniel Koontz

Daniel Koontz writes the blog Casual Kitchen, a food blog focused on food philosophy, money-saving ideas and easy and inexpensive recipes. His goal is to provide helpful tips, strategies, recipes and advice to people who want to make cooking at home a bigger and better part of their lives. He also writes the blog Quick Writing Tips, where he offers new writing tips every Sunday and Wednesday.

Articles by Daniel Koontz

Chicken Mole

This Mole Sauce recipe is one of the heavy rotation mainstays in our kitchen. It can be made vegetarian-style with only …

Creative Tips to Avoid Holiday Overeating

This list of tips will give you plenty of ways to resist holiday snacks and food which will, in turn, help you manage yo…

Beware of Cereal

Even the way cereal is sold to us is a sham. Walk down your local grocery store's cereal aisle and you'll see row after …

How to Resist Temptation and Increase Your Power Over Food

The setting and environment have to be just right to encourage overeating. We have to be oblivious to the many tricks ou…

How Food Companies Hide Sugar in Plain Sight

Be on the lookout for the following ingredients–any of them can be used in addition to, or as a substitute for, plain ol…