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Wowee, my first Award
Carolyn from Taste a Beet chose me for the Kreativ Blogger Award and I am ever so grateful! This is what she wrote about my blog: "Annie is amazingly versed in organic foods, green cleaning, how to buy...
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Alphabet Soup: GMO (archive for FBF)
Link to my previous post on Genetically Modified Foods, how and why to avoid them for FBF.This is part of Food Renegade's FIGHT BACK FRIDAYS where people who are fighting back against the dominate food...
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Your Biggest Organ
This is usually one of the last things we change. We get attached to name brands, the smells, and how they make us look and feel. But the fact is that more chemicals get into our body through our skin,...
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Let's Clear the Air
I love to travel and explore with my family. At the same time I dread it - being out of my comfort zone, being away from my kitchen where I prepare meals that nourish our bodies with good food and our...
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Eat Your Veggies
Kids will eat their veggies when prepared properly, offered regularly, and abundantly set in a great colorful variety.Children will go through a fussy phase. Sometimes it starts when they see another...
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Swine Flu & Produce from Mexico
We have been enjoying so many wonderful fruits and vegetables in our shares from the buying club over the last several weeks. When I shop for our buying club purchases, we do first go for local fruits...
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Carrots, Chlorine, & Kids, Oh My!
The internet is great for sharing information. Unfortunately, it's equally great at sharing misinformation. And as we all know, a little information can be a dangerous thing.Once again, the email about...
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Roast! (and I ain't talkin' Beef)
Sometimes the ugliest* fruit is the sweetest. Sometimes the simplest preparation of meals are the most delicious. And many times, the ugliest and simplest help make eating real food affordable and...
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Mango Salsa & Wild White Pacific Salmon
This week's share from our buying club offered a bounty for Cinco de Mayo fun. I chopped up Avocados, Cilantro, Jalapenos, Scallions, a ripe Mango from the week before, and Tomatoes into this...
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Papaya Salsa & more - Dinner a la Buying Club
Since getting all these goodies in our boxes least week, I have been making salsas, fruit platters and lovely salads all week long.The other night I made a Papaya Mango Salsa to enjoy with the...
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Salsa & Chips, it's not so simple anymore
For Cinco de Mayo last week I brought in fresh organic roma tomatoes, cilantro, jalapenos, limes, garlic, avocados, and scallions to make salsa with the kids. And of course, I brought in chips for the...
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Mama was Right! (weight loss, processed health foods, real foods)
Like many of us, my weight has fluctuated a bit during my adult life. I was both thinnest and biggest all during my twenties. I feel healthiest now.My husband and I started rethinking our eating when...
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Why Choose Organic?
There is no more important single thing we can do to have a bigger impact on helping the planet and our bodies than choosing real organic foods.Organic foods are produced without the use of chemicals,...
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Alphabet Soup: PLU
How to tell what you're eating - what do those numbers mean?Tags (PLU "Price Look Up" code sticker) on fruits and vegetables can help you identify organic, conventional and even genetically modified...
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Breakfast
Breakfasts are a big deal around here. We never have cereal, well, occasionally a warm bowl of oatmeal, or muesli or granola over yogurt. But normally it's eggs (organic and free range, and preferably...
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Cholesterol, Eggs, Shell Color, more Egg Facts
We eat eggs. With the six of us, we go through about a dozen a day. We use them for any meal and in many ways. Eggs are an inexpensive yet good source of protein and nutrients and the magical egg - it...
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It's not just what you eat - it's what you cook it in
We usually get our pots & pans based upon sales or what our mom used for our childhood meals. We don't much think about it again but as we get healthier in what we eat, we start to also look at the...
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Food, Inc. - the truth about what we eat and where it comes from
Read it. See it. Change your life and the lives of your loved ones. Make a difference in your health and the health of the planet. And our future. We CAN do it and most certainly we must make informed...
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Vegetarian Bolognese & Kids ate it up!
So the other night I was at a loss for what to make. We got lots of zucchini from our share in the buying club and we had tons of other veggies from past shares that I needed to use up. I had to come...
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Breastfeeding: the best foundation for health
It'sWorld Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1-7so I'm resurrecting and adding to an older post.Breastfeeding is good for mama, good for baby, good for our earth, good for our future.Simply, it is the best, most...
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Weight Loss, Exercise, Food
We've been busy, school starting, planning school lunches and missing our normal giant lunch that I'd make for the family, the buying club, well, life, you know how it goes. But we've also been busy...
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Bite on This - more Grocery Store Secrets
We all know chlorine is a poison, it's toxic and has been linked to infertility and disease. Sadly it's everywhere, in our drinking water, bleaching our paper towels and toilet paper, in pools, in PVC...
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Botany of Desire Video
This was on PBS last night. Just incredible, even if you've read the book, the video is a wonderful reminder and offers some additional information. It's amazing how much of our world's is shaped by...
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Squeaky Clean Burgers
The food industry has many dirty little secrets. Things they don't share with us consumers and things some of the us simply don't want to know because to know means we must make a conscious decision...
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