Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to plan your breakfasts for (at least) a week. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps A lot of people plan dinners and understand the importance of doing so, but lunches and breakfasts are often spur of the moment or just something simple like toast or cereal [...]
Entries Tagged as 'eggs'
Can You Take Your Weird Real Food to a Party with Normal People?
June 15th, 2011 · 54 Comments · Do It Yourself, Frugality, Upgraded Nutrition
Eating with others – the normal people – is always difficult when you’re committed to staying away from the “Standard American Diet” and consuming traditional foods. There’s often a lot of talk about what to allow your kids to eat, how to explain to people that you don’t each such and such, and how much [...]
Tags: appetizers·cooking for a crowd·desserts·eggs·Frugality·fruit pizza·parties·party food·pasta salad·real food
Monday Mission: Know Your Food
April 25th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to get to know your food a little more closely. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps (or more?) My kids on a visit to a special event at the farm where we occasionally buy meat and eggs. If the recent media coverage of bacteria in commercial [...]
Why You Should Really, REALLY Get to Know Your Farmer (Even if Your Friends Already Have)
October 20th, 2010 · 105 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition
Our family has been buying grass-fed beef and chicken at a premium from Grassfield’s Farm in Coopersville, MI for about 18 months now. When we began, I didn’t ask a zillion questions, simply because I knew enough trusted real foodies who went there and I knew they had good quality, organic, grassfed products. Last Saturday [...]
Tags: beef·eggs·farming·Go Local! Challenge·grassfed beef·grassfed dairy·local·organic·pastured chickens·raw milk·real food
Recipe Connection: Cherry Almond Coconut Crepes
June 8th, 2010 · 22 Comments · Recipes
Get this recipe, updated and improved with tons of FAQs, in the eBook “Smart Sweets,” along with 29 other delicious desserts that won’t make you feel guilty! Click HERE for a table of contents. Maple syrup. Organic cherries. Coconut oil. Christmas coloring books. Celtic Sea Salt. Easter sticker calendar devotions. When I start to think [...]
Tags: crepes·dessert·eggs·fruit·yogurt cheese
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 [...]
