Because I sure missed you guys! In case you aren’t online much over the weekend, let me catch you up on what you missed: The entirety of Kitchen Stewardship was down, gone, kaput, for the entire weekend. I hope I didn’t wreck anyone’s breakfast if you were planning on making granola or something! The message [...]
Entries from April 19th, 2010
Oh, Yes…The Box Arrived Today
April 16th, 2010 · 219 Comments · Uncategorized
My son gets a kick out of reading everything these days, so he announced, “Do Not Drop!” when the UPS man came to our door. He figures the UPS man wrote it on there, or maybe “he told the printer to put those words there.” I think I was wasting my time trying to explain [...]
Tags: dehydrator·giveaway
Agave and Stevia: All Natural, Unsafe, or Unhealthy?
April 15th, 2010 · 23 Comments · Food for Thought
During this Reduce the Refined Sugars week, it’s worth taking a look at some of the newer-on-the-market “natural” sugars. There are many bloggers who have done comprehensive posts on all the natural sugars, and since I haven’t really experimented with most of them, I’ll defer to their expertise (links at the bottom of the post). [...]
Plastics Recap: Substitutes, Resources, FAQs, and Giveaway Winner
April 15th, 2010 · 28 Comments · Avoiding Waste, What to Buy
Once you get to know Beth Terry of My Plastic-Free Life, your plastics standards increase by exponential degrees as a result of positive peer pressure. I’ve often thought of Beth’s commitment to using no plastic in the past week, and I feel like a plastic failure! Here’s my full confession: During Get Out the Plastic [...]
Tags: BPA·food storage·freezer cooking·lunchboxes·plastic bags·plastics·Spring Cleaning: Get the Junk Out·stainless steel
Spring Cleaning Carnival: Get the Refined Sugar Out
April 12th, 2010 · 284 Comments · Science of Nutrition
This week’s carnival hostess is Donielle from Naturally Knocked Up, who blogs about how diet affects fertility. Be sure to catch all the past topics and upcoming themes here. Here’s Donielle: My Personal Story with Sugar My entire life I’ve eaten sugar, and lots of it. Throughout my childhood I honestly don’t remember a day [...]
Tags: fertility·Naturally Knocked Up·Spring Cleaning: Get the Junk Out·sugar·sweeteners
Healthy Snacks to Go eBook Preview
April 12th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Recipes
Avoiding processed foods comes with one big drawback: you have to “process” everything yourself. When it’s time to run out the door with hungry kids, sometimes that can be a real hassle. In the Real Food Face-Off, so many people said the “most challenging part” about committing to a real food diet is eating away [...]
Tags: snacks
