“Where’s the beef?” Welcome to Meatless Monday. Meatless Monday is a movement encouraging people to improve their health and improve the health of the planet by lowering their meat consumption. My Meatless Monday adventure began last week (impressive, I know) and it went quite well. My family is on-board and we’ve been having a…
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Got Milk? Try These 4 Dairy Free Options
Mooove over cow milk, there are some new (and not so new) milk choices in town. Many people are opting for dairy free milk alternatives and fortunately there are some great options out there. With just as much calcium and vitamins in milk alternatives, there are a variety of reasons for steering clear of dairy….
Ugly Organic Vegetable
We have belonged to a CSA for many years. We are very fortunate because our CSA has established a reciprocal buying arrangement with a number of other farms, which allows them to provide a farm share option year round. We pick up our weekly bounty of fresh, organic fruits, vegetables and eggs at our local…
5 Vegetables That You Don’t Need to Peel
Vegetables are gorgeous- the bright colors, the crunch and the variety. The benefits from eating vegetables stack up quickly: reducing your risk of certain chronic diseases, keeping your weight in check and boosting your immune system. Eating vegetables is one of the best things you can do for your diet and your body. I recently…
Organic Doesn’t Always Mean Healthy
There is something so special about Valentine’s Day when you’re a kid. My kids spend endless hours reading through each valentine that comes home from school and sorting through all the candy, pencils and other loot. We gave a lot of thought this year about what to attach, if anything, to the valentines handed out in…
Baby Carrots and Chlorine?
We eat a lot of baby carrots at our house. They are a simple, healthy, ready-to-eat snack when we are on the run. Those little mini carrots travel with us to baseball fields, on airplanes and in our lunch boxes. Recently an email about baby carrots, that’s been circulating for a few years, was forwarded…
Talkin’ Turkey Take Two-Where’s Your Turkey Coming From?
After writing my last post about meat labels, lots of questions came flying in about where to buy that healthy, antibiotic and hormone free Thanksgiving bird. So I thought I would supplement the label info with some insight on where to find your turkey. Remember: the best organic food is what is grown or raised…
