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Trying to adopt a healthier lifestyle can be challenging. Fortunately, it need not all be hard work, as your appliances can be a great tool in helping you to eat healthier. High-quality appliances and some meal prep can help you to get the best from your kitchen appliances and adopt that healthier lifestyle. Organize Your Refrigerator Having easier access to healthier food choices means that there is less temptation to just grab your phone and call for takeout. Ideally, your food should be in easy to use containers, so you can grab what ingredients you need when you want to make a meal or snack. Prep some fruits and vegetables into slices and store them in containers or sandwich bags as a quick snack. If you want to encourage your kids to eat healthier, ensure that all the healthy snacks are on the lower refrigerator shelves within their reach. Plan Your Freezer Your freezer can be a fantastic resource and provide you with healthy ready meals when you need them. Try batch cooking healthier recipes and divide into portions for the freezer. These can be quickly defrosted and reheated on busy days. You can also make quick breads and muffins and store them in your freezer for a quick breakfast. All you’ll need to do is microwave them or up to 30 seconds. Set Your Rice Cooker to Work A good rice cooker can be the cornerstone of a healthy kitchen. You can cook almost any type of grain in

The holiday season is the perfect time to gather friends, family and loved ones for some delicious home-cooked food, and Wolf appliances are sure to provide the power and quality you need in a busy kitchen. Wolf is recognized as an innovator in the premium appliance space, bringing commercial-quality products to the comfort of your own home. While the company is best known for its full-sized cooking appliances, Wolf also produces a host of impressive countertop appliances that pack exceptional features in small packages. Wolf’s products provide the very best in professional-grade home appliances, and this holds true in its selection of countertop appliances, which are specially designed to bring restaurant-quality dishes to your home. To help prepare your kitchen for the holidays, we’re providing an overview on some of Wolf’s best countertop appliances. Countertop Oven Your oven is one of the most heavily used appliances in the kitchen, but there’s only so much space in a single unit. If you’re planning a massive holiday feast, you may want to invest in additional oven space, and a Wolf countertop oven is sure to meet your needs. This premium appliance offers the precision and quality found in a Wolf wall oven in a compact design, boasting six cooking modes and advanced convection functions that help you achieve delicious results with each and every use. This appliance is ideally suited for caramelizing vegetables, roasting pork, broiling fish, baking small pastries and re-heating previously prepared dishes. Thanks to superior components and exceptional design,

Ongoing Black Friday Deals at UAKCBlack Friday Appliances prices are too good for just one day. Many of the deals are ongoing through what we might call Black Friday Week or Black Friday Month. Here are a few of the favorites at Universal Appliance and Kitchen Center:KitchenAidWe've written about KitchenAid here before. It's one of my favorites. (Confession: I have KitchenAid in my house, right now.) It's what we call a Premium Brand. More deluxe than the standard appliance brands, but not into the exclusive category of Sub Zero Wolf, Thermador, Viking, or Miele.KitchenAid's Black Friday offer goes all the way through the end of 2016, but don't wait if you want these for the Holiday's. Remember, there's ordering, shipping, delivery, and installation to consider. It's worth it though - you can save $1600 on a package. Click on photo below for details:Sub Zero WolfI'd also recommend the collection of small kitchen appliances at Universal Appliance and Kitchen Center. Wolf Gourmet offers countertop appliances including a superb Toaster/Oven Combo, a Blender, and a 2-slice or 4-slice Toaster.NespressoUAKC also offers the exclusive Nespresso Coffee Maker lineup. I first came across Nespresso in the walled city of Avignon in the South of France, where they had an entire Nespresso store. If you are a coffee lover, you're going to love the choices from Nespresso. But hurry, their Black Friday Sale, 30% off, ends on Nov. 30th. There's much more, so call or visit one of the two Universal Appliance and Kitchen Centers

Get your countertop appliances at UAKCSub Zero Wolf is famous for their Built-In Refrigerators and Professional Style Ranges, but that's not the end of the story. Wolf also has a collection of top notch high-end countertop appliances. They're perfect for a Holiday Gift AND they're available at Universal Appliance and Kitchen Center. Wolf countertop appliances include a countertop oven, 4-slice and 2-slice toasters, and blender. Here are just two of the collection: With the Wolf Gourmet blender and countertop oven working together, the possibilities are endless. Roasted vegetable soups, classic coffee cakes, hearty frittatas, savory pies, and streusel-topped muffins are just the beginning. Here's a recipe for Grandma's Apple Cake:BEFORE YOU STARTPreheat the oven to Bake 350°F. Grease the bottom and sides of a 9-by-13-inch baking pan with the softened butter. Set aside.PREPARATION METHODAdd 1 cup almonds and rolled oats to the blender. Select Manual/Lo and press start. Gradually increase the speed to Speed 8 and blend until almonds and oats are finely ground, about 20 seconds. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl. Add flour, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and baking soda. Whisk to combine. Set aside.Add oil, sour cream and apples to the blender in the order listed. Select Manual/Speed 5 and pulse until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla and pulse to combine. Transfer dry ingredients to blender and pulse just until combined. Pour batter into buttered baking dish. Sprinkle remaining ½ cup sliced almonds evenly on top of batter.Bake until tester inserted into the center