How to Connect with Skinny Chef

Over the last four years, Skinny Chef has grown from a mere passion into a content-rich site where I share what I’ve learned about food. In addition, I am actively encouraging you to add your voice through the comment sections - to make this a thriving community of readers all contributing to the common knowledge on the topic of health and food.

We’ve seen amazing growth over the last year, so I thought I’d share a few ways that different readers stay connected with the community. In doing so, hopefully newer visitors to SkinnyChef.com will enjoy discovering what they’ve been missing.

I’d also love to get your feedback in the comment section below to help us give readers and vistors what they crave!

• Bookmark It - many of our readers simply bookmark SkinnyChef.com or set it as their homepage so that every time they log on they see the latest post.
• RSS Feed - one of the most popular ways that people follow what goes up on is via a “news feed” or “RSS feed” - What’s that? This technology lets you subscribe to our site and be notified of updates on a variety of tools such as Google’s Reader tool, iGoogle, MyYahoo and many other news aggregators and feed readers. If you want to use these to subscribe to SkinnyChef.com you’ll need to add our master feed. Learn more about this service…
• Email Updates - if you don’t use RSS, you can still get updates sent to you about twice a week by subscribing to our feed via email. You can do this by entering your email address in the footer of any page. After submitting your email address, you will receive an automated welcome message to confirm your subscription. Learn more about this service…
• Monthly Newsletter - lastly we have a monthly email newsletter which has been very popular. In this email (usually going out at the beginning of each month) I give a short summary of new posts from the previous month, plus highlight some of the best discussions. To subscribe to this, simply add your email address to the subscription form. After submitting your email address, you will receive an automated welcome message with instructions how to confirm your newsletter subscription.
• Social Bookmarking - Another way how people keep track of the latest posts on SkinnyChef.com is via a variety of social bookmarking tools. You’ll notice at the bottom of every post that there’s a little button like the one below with the word ‘Bookmark’ on it. When you click this button, a little window opens up that allows you to bookmark the post on one of a variety of “bookmarking” sites. Some of the more popular ones are Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon. In bookmarking our posts, you have a way of finding them later when you need them, but you also spread the news about SkinnyChef.com a little and help us continue to grow.