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Keep it together: The need for whole food

Friday, December 18, 2009

To paraphrase Michael Pollan from his latest book, In Defense of Food, science has figured out pretty well now how to take apart food (going so far as the nucleus), but we are lousy at putting it back together. Though the foods we’ve fashioned over millennia do a great job keeping us at our best, [...]

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Counter Culture

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

As mentioned in my New Year’s post, we’ve started the adventure of making our food more active and getting as much of those slightly more processed foods from our own kitchen. Starting with a half gallon of raw milk on the kitchen table we aimed to make two things- whey (for future counter cultures) and [...]

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Spend less money on quality food- buy less food

Monday, April 14, 2008

Is this too obvious? Apparently not since the smart way to shop for food is to get more for you money. I compare unit prices too and want the best deal. I’ve just decided to incorporate external costs into this calculation. The quick run through is;how was it made, how did the production of this [...]

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Rainy Day Bread

Friday, February 29, 2008

Homemade bread is just so economical, it seemed crucial that we start baking more often in our need to cut the food budget. As usual in my internet searches for good recipes, I didn’t find anything I really liked. (This is usually because they aren’t using natural or organic products so I feel like their [...]

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