My husband is lucky he wasn’t a lobster in all of our wedding photos. The day before we got married, we relaxed with our wedding party and friends on the beach most of the afternoon. We played volleyball, enjoyed the cool waters of beautiful Lake Huron, and ate heaps of junk food that the girls [...]
Entries Tagged as 'corn'
Ethically Traded White Chocolate You can Eat (Recipe: Sweet-n-Salty Snack Mix)
April 4th, 2013 · 14 Comments · Recipes
Tags: chocolate·corn·dessert·healthy snack ideas·nuts·recipe·snacks·white chocolate
Back to Basics Baby Step Monday Mission no. 6: Cut High Fructose Corn Syrup
February 11th, 2013 · 36 Comments · Monday Missions
This is a {guest post} series from Tiffany of Don’t Waste the Crumbs. Catch all the previous baby steps HERE. Please tell me I’m not the only one who has been in this position. A friend mentions in casual conversation that she’s cut back her daily intake of soda to only one per day. Your [...]
Tags: artificial sweeteners·Back to Basics Mini Challenge·corn·GMOs·high fructose corn syrup·Monday Missions·sweeteners
Quit "Real-Washing" my Clean Eating!
January 10th, 2013 · 48 Comments · Food for Thought
The world of food is a tricky thing. Sometimes I envy our distant, distant ancestors who only had to worry about two things: 1. Can I eat this? or 2. Will it kill me? Every so often somebody taught everyone else the answer to question two by keeling over after eating a poisonous mushroom, but [...]
Tags: additives·Back to Basics Mini Challenge·corn·food additives·preservatives·real food·realwashing·trans fats
Recipe Connection: Gluten-Free Cornbread (with no fancy flours)
March 20th, 2012 · 34 Comments · Recipes
Trying an elimination diet can be a very tricky and scary endeavor. You miss the foods you’re used to, and even worse, sometimes you don’t know how to make substitutes that don’t include your X food. When we went grain-free, then gluten-free, a year and a half ago for the first time, I couldn’t stomach [...]
Michael Pollan on “Can Grassfed Feed the World?”
June 11th, 2010 · 58 Comments · Food for Thought
Michael Pollan came on stage carrying bags of processed foods. He proceeded to pull out “edible food products” and do a little stand up comedy about all the corny ingredients in them, and how creative the food manufacturing industry is getting to keep coming up with new products that we then think we need to [...]
Tags: corn·factory farms·Go Local! Challenge·grassfed beef·Michael Pollan·nutritionism·sustainability
Dear Michael Pollan: My Rebuttal to the New Book “Food Rules”
April 28th, 2010 · 75 Comments · Food for Thought
Dear Mr. Pollan, It was refreshing to hear you speak tonight on small vs. large farms, sustainable agriculture and moving our society to real, unprocessed foods instead of the crazy products you carried into the Wharton Center in Meijer bags. You have a good time poking fun at corn, don’t you? It deserves it, we [...]
