Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to learn to identify artificial sweeteners – or teach someone else to root them out. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps (photo source) If your child goes to school, chances are they’ve ingested some artificial sweetener in their time there. Got a Valentine’s Day party coming [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Monday Missions'
Monday Mission: Seek and Destroy Artificial Sweeteners
February 6th, 2012 · 35 Comments · Call to Action, Monday Missions
Tags: artificial colorings·artificial sweeteners·juice·kids·Monday Missions·school food
Monday Mission: Embrace the Fat (But Not the Muffin Top)
January 29th, 2012 · 22 Comments · Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to eat more fat. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps I have a few more weeks of Back to Basics Monday Missions for you, but this one just can’t be missed. I’m always tickled when a reader tells me they’ve been around since the Fat Full [...]
Tags: fat·fats and oils·Monday Missions
Monday Mission: Do Something New with Stock
January 23rd, 2012 · 26 Comments · Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to do something new with stock this month. It’s a Back to Basics for January, advanced level. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps We’ve often talked about making homemade stocks and bone broths (I’m using those terms interchangeably here, but they do have slightly different meanings [...]
Monday Mission: Ferment Something
January 16th, 2012 · 51 Comments · Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to start a new fermented food this week. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides Fermented foods add probiotics to your diet, assist digestion of the other foods you’re eating, and usually unlock vitamins or nutrients within the fermented foods that would be otherwise unavailable to you. Many [...]
Monday Mission: Parabens Bite the Dust
January 9th, 2012 · 106 Comments · Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to get rid of your junky personal products, once and for all. I told you last week that we’d take "Back to Basics" topics and give them a one-up, a challenge for those of you who have already taken many basic steps to securing a real food [...]
Tags: Monday Missions·natural body products·parabens·personal care
Monday Mission: Back to Basics & Traditional Foods Resolutions
January 2nd, 2012 · 19 Comments · Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to go back to basics and renew your commitment to regularly making traditional foods and including them in your menu plans. (You are menu planning, right?) Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides Last January I visited some vital topics in real food cooking and challenged folks [...]
Tags: Monday Missions·stock/broth·yogurt
Monday Mission: Reduce, Reuse, Celebrate!
December 12th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Green Living, Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to celebrate the season by giving a gift to the earth. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps Did you know that the months of November and December get the prize for the most trash of the year? And not just by a few tons, but 25% [...]
Tags: Green...Your Way·Monday Missions·recycling·reusable bags·reuse
















