This is a follow-up to my friend’s dilemma of what to buy in order to eat well on a tight schedule and a tight budget.
She asked me about essential foods I keep on hand and how to deal with the eating at the rushed times during the day at breakfast and lunch.
Here’s something I know [...]
Thursday, October 9, 2008
First:
No lettuce required for this purely garden salad. Tomatoes and cucumbers have been our most reliable (and hard to keep up with) producers this month. This salad gets through one cuke per person and a handful of cherry tomatoes. Our bigger sized tomatoes haven’t been ripening quickly and coming out mealy so these small guys [...]
Sunday, September 28, 2008
A dear friend wrote to me the following e-mail:
I’d love your insight into our current scenario:
A peek into our kitchen would render a million spices and nothing to put them into, frozen chicken, strawberries and TJ’s frozen pasta dinners. Fridge with soymilk, condiments, an ancient bag of carrots and some miso. Cupboards of pasta, some [...]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The Well Blog on the New York Times posted an interview with Rachel Ray, the cooking show host and founder of a nonprofit that focuses on getting kids into healthy eating and home cooking. I think this is great, I really do. She operates in a great middle place between Slow Food foodies and On-The-Go-Americans. [...]
Our garden is providing a higher proportion of our food each week. As I’ve mentioned before its only been in my recent adulthood that I have managed to get myself to get an adequate daily serving of fruits and veggies. Figuring out dishes I like where I can really pack in the variety of vegetables [...]
There is no doubt that improvements to American’s diet would make an impact on health. This includes reforming FDA recommendations to be more flexible to new findings on health. In a rational and healthy world there would be more reliance on whole low-tech food in reasonable portions to provide the basic foundation of wellbeing [...]
One way to save money on local, organic, healthy food is to check out who in your community may have excess of something you are in need of. For instance, we learned in the craigslist ‘free’ section that a lovely family had taken in many many chickens to relieve people of finished class projects or [...]
Oh how gratifying it is to write about something a few days before seeing it covered in the New York Times. This post on the TierneyLab NYT science blog addresses new research on the failure of the theory about the evil of saturated fat to be demonstrated positively in actual life, including generations of people [...]
Anyone who reads about the virtues of various foods for health will likely agree that it is easy to get suspicious quickly. Much information about food and diet, whether from medial reports or newest money making fads, contradicts the previous findings and I don’t think it’s cynical to assume the next findings may do the [...]
Recently an outstanding report was released that addresses the societal costs of our current system of producing animals for food. It was put together over two and a half years by the Pew Charitable Trust’s Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production. The confined operation model of the corporate meat industry is credited for the low [...]
