2010 October | Kitchen Stewardship | A Baby Steps Approach to Balanced Nutrition

Entries from October 18th, 2010

{GIVEAWAY} In the Kitchen: Real Food Basics by Kate Tietje

October 18th, 2010 · 4 Comments · What to Buy

Starting on the real food journey can be daunting. There are new foods to buy. New techniques in the kitchen to master. New recipes to find. If you’re lucky, your family will accept and eat the food without complaint. Usually even the most flexible family will occasionally mourn the memories of pizza, French fries, chicken [...]

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In-Season Recipe Connection: Easy, Healthy Pumpkin Cookies

October 15th, 2010 · 46 Comments · Recipes, Super Foods

Want to get a super food like pumpkin into your family? Put it in cookies! My husband, who doesn’t even like pumpkin, loves these healthy pumpkin cookies. The whole wheat version of the recipe hardly tastes different than the unhealthy pumpkin cookie recipe I started out with, and they remain quite easy to make. It’s [...]

Keeping it Simple: Volunteerism

October 15th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments

A few weeks ago, our West Michigan Bloggers group decided to use half of our monthly meeting time to do some service work for kids in our community. Instead of talking about SEO or WordPress plug-ins, we made a few thousand sandwiches. Like my son did for his birthday, we volunteered at Kids Food Basket, [...]

Coming Back with Lentils: How to Use and Recipes

October 14th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Frugality, Recipes

I never thought I’d appreciate lentils as much as I did last week, when they reappeared on our menu after three weeks with zero grains or legumes whatsoever. “Helloooooo, lentils! How are you today? It’s so wonderful to see you again!” If you have never talked to your food, please don’t come to my house. [...]

Recipe Connection: Slow Cooker Lentil Brown Rice Casserole

October 14th, 2010 · 21 Comments · Recipes

The first time I made this parent recipe, it was a total disaster. The rice and lentils didn’t get cooked, and I had to decide between crunchy rice or a very, very late dinner. We ended up with both, as I baked the dish twice as long as it called for and still had underdone [...]

Is Your Water Causing Infertility?

October 13th, 2010 · 17 Comments · Green Living

“Water, with a shot of estrogen, please.” You’d never explicitly make such an order in a restaurant, but it turns out that we often do just that, both when we’re out and in the comforts of our own home. I’m over at Green Your Way today, discussing the issue of hormones in our water: how [...]

5 Ways to Preserve Your Apples

October 12th, 2010 · 43 Comments · Avoiding Waste, Frugality, Recipes

If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, how many doctors are bored because we’re averaging 2-3 per person around here this fall? My husband went out with friends Friday night. They had pizza, he had an apple. The next day they tailgated; he had grilled chicken and an apple. My 2-year-old daughter Leah [...]