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Monday Mission: Be an Advocate

October 3rd, 2011 · 22 Comments · Call to Action, Monday Missions

Pin ItYour mission, if you choose to accept, is to advocate for change. Make SOMETHING happen this week that you care about, in any arena. Impact Ratings: – your call Level of Commitment: Making Strides I find more and more that I am deleting online petitions and recycling envelopes from charities before I even open [...]

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Cereal: “One of the Healthiest Breakfast Choices”

October 3rd, 2011 · 83 Comments · Call to Action

Pin ItDoes General Mills market their cereals appropriately to kids? I received an email from a long-time reader this weekend, and it fit perfectly with my already-planned Monday Mission on being an advocate. I just had to share it with you, in her words: (photo source) This past Monday I received an appalling email from [...]

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Sign, Buy, Free & Win: Around the Blogosphere this Week

July 15th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Call to Action, What to Buy

Pin ItSign this. I’ve been ranting about the evils of triclosan and how it drives me mad that Bath and Body Works includes it in everything for years now. (Here’s a letter some of us sent to B&BW two summers ago before school started. And since we’re coming up on back-to-school time – no, we’re [...]

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20 Weeks to a 72-Hour Emergency Survival Kit

June 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Call to Action

Pin ItYou know KS is all about the baby steps. When a reader shared her 20 steps to creating an emergency 72-hour evacuation kit, to be done one per week, I thought it was just perfect for our community. As a little gift to you at the close of the preparedness series, I’ll share the [...]

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Real Food and Politics: S510 Food Safety Modernization Act and Raw Cheese Seizures

November 23rd, 2010 · 11 Comments · Call to Action

Pin ItI’ve hesitated to jump into the fray lately, partly because I was attempting to avoid “one more thing” to research, and partly because I don’t feel very politically minded sometimes. It makes me tired to try to figure out who’s telling the truth and what the lawyer-speak in bills really means. The real food [...]

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The Test Your Grains Challenge Survey is Here!

September 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Call to Action, Science of Nutrition

Pin ItHow are you digesting? On our no-grains diet, we’ve definitely noticed some changes at the Kimball house, all for the positive. Remember that the Test Your Grains Challenge is not to meant to cut all grains out of your diet. It’s simply asking you to eat all your grains the same way for 7-10 [...]

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Go Local! Challenge

June 8th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Call to Action

Pin It 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 [...]

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