Just a tiny little Food for Thought to help you with your Mental Mission this week: How Much is Wasted? Each year, Americans discard more than 96 billion pounds of good food. If 5% was recovered, it could provide the equivalent of a day’s food for four million hungry people. Americans are tossing out at [...]
Entries from February 28th, 2009
Food for Thought: America’s Food Waste
February 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Avoiding Waste
Tags: reducing waste
The Fate of Returned Food in Grocery Stores
February 26th, 2009 · 30 Comments · Avoiding Waste, My Story
I am sitting here this morning with a brick in my chest, hoping that God has a plan for the events of my trip to the grocery store. During a week in which I’ve asked people to be conscious of the food they waste, I just caused ten unopened boxes of perfectly fine food to [...]
Mary and Martha Moment: On Lenten Sacrifices
February 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments, Prayerful Kitchen
Mary and Martha Moment My Standard Sacrifice Since I was a child, I remember my father doing the same things for Lent every year. He would go to daily Mass and observe a modified fast by avoiding eating between meals. When I was in high school, I too began to eat only three meals a [...]
Can you decorate for Lent?
February 24th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments, Prayerful Kitchen
Why not? The Church does. We decorate our houses for everything from quasi-religious holidays to seasons in our culture. I say: why not make Lent a time where even your house slows down and fasts from culture? When Ash Wednesday hits, my house is doused in purple. I am reminded of the season – the [...]
Tags: hospitality·Lent
Mental Mission: Food Waste
February 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Avoiding Waste
I bet you’ve already toured your house (or plan to tonight while brushing your teeth) to seek out triclosan in products. This week you can start to take steps to root it out… …and hopefully you have mental power for one little thoughtful task. Your mental mission this week is to become conscious of the [...]
Monday Mission: Handwashing and Antibacterial Soap
February 23rd, 2009 · 21 Comments · Cleaning
Monday Mission #1: Increased Handwashing and Decreased Antibacterial Soap Your mission, if you choose to accept, is three-fold (I know, I’m not supposed to overwhelm you. I can’t help it! The third one I just added, but it’s important, and easy.): Inspect your household for triclosan. Reveal it and decide how to approach each situation. [...]
2nds of Food for Thought: The evil villain Triclosan…
February 21st, 2009 · 15 Comments · Cleaning
This is part three of a three-part series on antibacterial soaps. Part one: My Relationship with Soap Part two: Food for Thought: Antibacterial Soap What is Triclosan? Triclosan is the chemical added to anti-bacterial soaps (or triclocarbon for bar soaps) with the aim of killing bacteria. It is non-discriminatory in that it won’t only kill [...]
Tags: bacterial resistance·Cleaning·handwashing·soap·triclosan
