Peggy Woodward, RDN

Shullsburg, WI

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Expertise: Recipe testing; Recipe development; Food science, Nutrition; Baking; Preserving

Peggy Woodward, RDN

20 years of test kitchen experience
Former in-house nutrition expert for Taste of Home editors
Has developed and tested thousands of recipes throughout her career

Experience

Peggy is a registered dietitian nutritionist and former senior food editor for Taste of Home. In addition to curating recipes, she wrote articles, developed recipes and was our in-house nutrition expert. She studied dietetics at the University of Illinois and completed post-graduate studies at the Medical University of South Carolina. Peggy has a background in food science and more than 20 years of experience in the food industry.

She lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband and children, where she's an avid baker.

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, bachelor's degree in dietetics

Post-graduate dietetic internship at the Medical University of South Carolina

Taste of Home Editorial Policies

Taste of Home, a Trusted Media Brand, has been a reliable source for recipes, cooking tips and entertaining advice for more than 30 years. Every month, our content inspires well over 20 million home cooks to get creative in the kitchen. Each one of our 40 thousand recipes has gone through a rigorous testing and approval process to ensure we’re sharing the very best. Every snack, ingredient and product we recommend is tested by our team of culinary experts and professional product testers—the best of the best earn our Test Kitchen-Preferred seal of approval. Learn more about Taste of Home and our Test Kitchen and editorial teams.

Articles & Recipes

January Healthy Eating Meal Plan

New year, new you. This healthy eating meal plan includes family-friendly dinners and sides that will make it deliciously easy to keep your resolution.

55 Heart-Healthy Slow Cooker Dinners

Just because it comes from the slow cooker, doesn’t mean dinner has to be loaded with fat and sodium.

24 Meals We Miss from Our ’70s Dinner Table

These retro dinner recipes will make you feel nostalgic for the 1970s, back to a time when all you needed to worry about was being home before dark (on your banana seat bicycle).