This month at Kitchen Stewardship the Monday Missions will help you to get busy getting local with your foods in various ways. Local foods use less petroleum/fossil fuels to get from field to table, often have more nutrients because they are fresher, and have the added economic benefit of keeping your dollars in your community, [...]
Entries from June 8th, 2010
Go Local! Challenge
June 8th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Call to Action
Tags: go local!·Go Local! Challenge
Monday Mission: Upgrade Your Eggs
June 7th, 2010 · 40 Comments · Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to improve the quality of your eggs. Take a step (or two) forward on the list, depending on what your family normally eats. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides It’s been over a year since the first eggy Monday Mission, Eat More Eggs. Here’s a little [...]
Egg Labels and Terms: What’s in a Name?
June 7th, 2010 · 31 Comments · Food for Thought, What to Buy
Have you stood in front of the egg display at your supermarket lately? There are a baffling number of different kinds of eggs available nowadays. Growing up, I would have thought eggs were eggs. Now I know better. This list is intended to help you navigate the egg labels to find the healthy eggs in [...]
How Many People Have YOU Fed Today?
June 4th, 2010 · 62 Comments · Kids in the Kitchen, KS lifestyle, Special Situations
Meet my son, Paul. He’s five years old. And we’re really proud of him. I’m a little tired of referring to him as “Buddy Boy” or just the impersonal “my son,” and besides that, there’s no getting around seeing his name in this post anyway. The kid deserves some recognition, if I’m allowed to be [...]
Tags: feeding the hungry·food banks·kids·Kids Food Basket·volunteering·white bread
The List: What to Eat, What to Avoid, How to Compromise
June 3rd, 2010 · 64 Comments · What to Buy
Bad. Better. Best. It’s “What to Buy” in three columns. I have been asked more than once to collect all the “avoid this” terms in one place, as well as to make a list of “good foods, bad foods, and compromise foods.” This three-column list is my attempt to meet these needs. You’ll find a [...]
WFMW: How to Throw a Messy Party (The Best Summer Kids’ Gathering You’ll Ever See!)
June 2nd, 2010 · 31 Comments · Special Situations
27 kids. 12 adults. Jello, flour, chocolate syrup, and lots of cream – both whipped and shaving. The goal? To make a mess. The end result? More fun than we even expected. Many of you appreciated the servitude my son showed with his 5th birthday party, and rightfully so. If you’ve got a wild side, [...]
Tags: games·kids·messy party·parties·party food·summer foods
Giveaway Winner: You Need a Budget
June 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
I was thrilled to see how many people took the plunge to test out You Need a Budget for the free 7-day trial. Seriously, folks, feel free to comment with your opinions and ideas on the program at this post, and we can all help each other use it most effectively. I’m not really into [...]
