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Monday Mission: Memorial Day Review Week

May 31st, 2010 · 8 Comments · Monday Missions

For those of you in the U.S., Happy Memorial Day!

american flag After an excellent 10 weeks of Spring Cleaning, it’s definitely time for a review.  If you’re new to Kitchen Stewardship, this is a great chance to browse the archives and choose an older Monday Mission to tackle.  If you’ve been busy lately, you get a chance to revisit one of the Spring Cleaning topics and tackle something you missed.

You can always find a complete list of past Monday Missions under “The Lists” on the top menu bar.  Here are some of my recent favorites and some oldies, too:

  • Use Less Refined Sugar:  Simple ways to cut down and cut out on an unnecessary (but delicious) calorie.
  • Seek Out and Avoid Parabens: A cancer-causing preservative in beauty products, parabens are no good.  Find natural alternatives.
  • Find Those MSGs:  There are over 20 names MSG can hide under.  Do you know what’s in your pantry?

  • Make a Sourdough Starter: Research shows that sourdough is the healthiest way to prepare grains.  Capture your own yeast for free!
  • Healthy Upgrades:  Real Food Recipe Renditions:  Learn how to make your favorite recipes without the processed convenience food ingredients.
  • Healthy Upgrades: Make it from Scratch: A challenge to make one boxed thing from scratch.
  • Eat Fewer Grains:  In the midst of such research controversy on the health benefits or dangers of grains, let’s try to eat one grain-less meal each day this week, just to raise our consciousness of how many grains we consume.
  • How do you Meal Plan? Some tips for finding meal planning inspiration and keeping organized.
  • Figure out the Fats Vocabulary:  How does the pressing of oils affect their nutrition, how to decipher all the labels on your packages.
  • Beef Tallow and Lard:  Animal fats got a bad rap last century.  Let’s give them a chance for a comeback.
  • Condiment Awareness:  Take a small step (or two or three!) to making more healthy condiment choices.
  • 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.
    • I’m on the Radio Tonight!

    I’m on Blog Talk Radio tonight with James Talmage Stevens, author of Making the Best of Basics, which is an incredibly comprehensive book on food storage and preparing for emergencies.  Find me here from 8-10 p.m. EST or download the show anytime after that.

    I don’t know if I can talk that long!  What do you want to hear from me?  If you have questions for the Kitchen Stewardship lady, you can call in and ask live or via a chat online.

    Seriously.  Please ask me something.  Two hours!

    Last Chance to Learn How to Cook Real Food

    In case you missed it, Nourished Kitchen is offering a 12-week eCourse for only $10/class to teach you how to cook Nourishing Traditions style food.  The videos, text material and online interactive forum will help you become a confident real food cook, and you even get lifetime access to the courses so you can review whenever you want.

    Hurry, the deadline for registration is TODAY, May 31.

    Need to know more?

    Last Chance to Get a Budget for Free

    Last week’s Spring Cleaning giveaway runs through tonight, Monday, May 31 at midnight.  You can win the You Need a Budget software, a $60 value, just for commenting.  I found the software to be very easy to use, practical, and based on common sense rules for family budgeting.  I can’t wait to see what else it can do!

    Want a Sneak Peek?

    Here are some upcoming events at Kitchen Stewardship this summer:

    • Family Camping eBook: I’ll be publishing an eBook soon on surviving in the woods with young children, basics about how to family camp, and a sample menu plan and real food recipes to nourish your family in the big woods.  (If you emailed me about proofing it for me, I haven’t forgotten you, I’m just slow to organize.)
    • Organic Gardening Series continues: Rene of Budget Saving Mom has introduced us to the four types of home gardening.  Each Wednesday for the next few months she’ll walk us through some how-tos of keeping those gardens, then preserving the harvest through canning and dehydrating. (Click Organic Gardening for all the posts.)
    • Sunscreen Trials: I decided I’m going to try to get a bunch of natural sunscreen companies to send me testers, and in July I’ll publish results on my fair-skinned children.  Any suggestions for a brand I can’t miss?
    • Eat Local Challenge: The month of June will focus on finding local foods: what kind of eggs to look for, what milk you want to be drinking, and how to talk to your farmers.
    • Soaking Grains Guinea Pigs? I am also percolating on gathering the troops to run some personal tests on various methods of preparing grains.  More on that forthcoming!
    • Great Giveaways! Of course, as soon as we hit 4,000 subscribers, the Excalibur dehydrator giveaway will launch, and in the fall, during a series called “Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Grain Bread,” you’ll get a chance to win a Nutrimill grain mill.  We were at 3700 Friday, so keep sharing the love with your friends!  :)

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