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5 Easy & Delicious Ways to use up CSA Greens {Guest Post}

July 13th, 2011 · 39 Comments · Frugality, Recipes

This is a guest post from Joanna Rodriguez of Plus Other Good Stuff. Community Supported Agriculture is a wonderful thing. You pay a farmer at the beginning of the season and receive a share of whatever they grow that year. It’s a great way to help out farmers (they get paid whether it’s a the [...]

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 [...]

Eat Well, Spend Less: Food Sources in Michigan and the Midwest

April 19th, 2011 · 36 Comments · Frugality

People seem to love knowing what others spend, don’t they? Whether it’s to assure yourself that you’re doing okay, compare and wonder what the other person knows that you don’t, or just to have a peek into someone else’s life, it’s amazing what a hot topic budgets can be, especially grocery budgets. I’ve often been [...]

Monday Mission: Where are Your Summer Veggies Coming From?

April 18th, 2011 · 25 Comments · Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to commit to increasing your family’s vegetable intake this summer (or right now!). Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps This week’s Eat Well, Spend Less focus is on making the most of where you live, so tomorrow I’ll get in depth about how we corral the [...]

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

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

I’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 blogosphere [...]

POP! The Best Sound Ever Heard in a Kitchen

September 8th, 2010 · 29 Comments · Do It Yourself, Organic Gardening, Recipes

If you’ve ever canned anything, you know exactly what I’m talking about. After all the prepping food, filling jars, carefully lowering into the water and trying not to get burned getting the jars out, while they’re sitting on the counter, you start to hear: “Pop!” “Pop!” “POP!” It’s the sound of something done right, of [...]

In-Season Recipe Connection: Mexican Stuffed Peppers

August 17th, 2010 · 24 Comments · Recipes

Are you tempted by the lovely basket of peppers at the Farmer’s Market but not quite sure how to deal with so many all at once? Since most recipes seem to call for one pepper at a time, you either have to preserve the peppers by freezing or dehydrating, or find a great stuffed pepper [...]