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In light of the holiday weekend, the fact that I’m still on vacation at my grandparents enjoying family, the lake and outside play, and the fact that it’s been long enough since the last opportunity to slow down and recap,
It’s Review Week at Kitchen Stewardship!
If you’ve joined us partway into the 15-week series on Super Foods (only 3 weeks to go!), click here to view the list of nutrient-dense, healthy foods. Each food is a clickable link to the Food for Thought, which will explain its health benefits, and you can also find links to related recipes and informative posts there.
Find all the Monday Missions here or by clicking the “Missions” tab at the top. Here’s a quick list as well:
- Handwashing and Antibacterial Soap : Wash hands well and rid the house of triclosan.
- Reduce Food Waste: Salvage bread heels and leftover cooked veggies.
- Reduce Energy Waste: Using your dishwasher wisely.
- Meal Planning: Level up in your meal plan organization.
- Safe(er) Plastics: Avoid BPA in drinking containers.
- Traditional Bone Broths: How to make the most delicious, frugal, nutritious chicken stock in the world.
The next 15 weeks are a series of Super Food challenges. See this page for details. - Legume Recommend Beans: A challenge to include beans/legumes in your meal plan once a week, with how-to prepare and recipes.
- Making Yogurt: Easy how-to steps to make homemade yogurt, plus alternative baby steps for those who aren’t ready to take the plunge to homemade.
- Eat More Eggs: A simple challenge to include more of this super food in your week.
- Can the Cans: Commit to never allowing canned vegetables in your cupboards.
- No Nukes for Cruciferous Vegetables: Try steaming your vegetables instead of using the microwave.
- Be Aware of the Dirty Dozen Produce Items: Memorize the list of 12 top pesticide-laden fruits and veggies.
- Plastics, Part two: Rethink Plastic Food Storage
- Fats, Part one: Search Out Trans Fats (and a look at monounsaturated fats)
- Fats, Part two: Increase your Omega-3 Fats (salmon, flax)
- Whole Grains: Find a New Oat Recipe
- Eating Orange (veggies) and Revisiting Meal Planning
- Learn About Complete Proteins: You can reduce meat consumption (budget help) if you know how to pair non-meal proteins for best nutrition.
Bonus: Mind the Microwave in May and its origins
Choose a mission or two that you didn’t have time to tackle at the time. Is it time to tweak you meal planning again? Finally try homemade yogurt? Or just focus on getting more eggs or tomatoes in your diet?
Tomorrow I’m hosing the rotating Make it From Scratch Carnival – there are some great foods and crafts linked up, explained beautifully by bloggers around the blogosphere! Come on back for an interesting list!
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Kitchen Stewardship is dedicated to balancing God’s gifts of time, health, earth and money. If you feel called to such a mission, read more at Mission, Method, and Mary and Martha Moments.
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Hi, I finally managed to put up my blog, yay! Thanx again for sharing your recipe for homemade granola -in mentioned its success in my very first post-! I’m still excited to start posting real blogs, like I find them on other blog sites.
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