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How do you get nutritious food that tastes amazing? For me, I visit my dearest friend. You see, I can tell you how to make a nutrient-dense [...]
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Tags: Brussels sprouts·side dishes·vegetables
What can I freeze? It’s a common question as gardens begin to be ready for harvest and Farmer’s Markets tempt people with bushel baskets full of gorgeous fruits and vegetables. One of my early posts here at KS was when I granted myself the title of “freezer queen”: 10 Easy Prep Foods I Always [...]
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Tags: berries·food storage·freezer·preserving vegetables·produce·pumpkin·tomatoes·vegetables·zucchini
This is hardly even worth a blog post.
Dehydrating veggies, at least the few I’ve attempted, is so simple:
Wash
Cut in even pieces
Dehydrate
Store
The hardest part about dehydrating veggies, for me, is figuring out how to use them and then remembering to do it.
I’ve only done peppers, zucchini, and tomatoes, because those were the items last summer [...]
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Tags: dehydrator·peppers·preserving vegetables·tomatoes·vegetables·zucchini
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to do something organic this week that you don’t usually.
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Level of Commitment: Baby Steps
This is a leveled challenge, because readers might be at all different places in their organic process. Find your profile and act accordingly:
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Tags: dirty dozen·gardening·organic·pesticides·produce·vegetables
I’ll take bugs, please. What’s on your produce?
When a friend of a friend moved to Colorado, my friend was telling me about the organic food situation there. People talk to me about food a lot. Go figure.
It seems that the gal could only find organic produce in the stores; that was the [...]
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Tags: organic·pesticides·produce·vegetables
If you’re going to meal plan well, one bonus is that you should only have to make the grocery store run once a week (or even once every two weeks). Knowing how to keep your fresh produce is vital, then, for the system to be a success.
You know how I hate wasting food. As part [...]
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Tags: freezer·vegetables
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to maximize your dinner salad (or start eating one if you don’t already).
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Level of Commitment: Baby Steps
If you’re watching your weight, research shows that people who eat salads eat fewer overall calories at the meal than those who don’t. It’s not all about [...]
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Tags: salad·vegetables