Posts Tagged ‘ real food ’

Booklist: Delicious for Life: Your Everyday Guide to Making Quick & Healthy Meals

May 4, 2011
Booklist: Delicious for Life: Your Everyday Guide to Making Quick & Healthy Meals

By Randy Rabney Buy now at Lulu $12.00 – paperback $9.00 – download In Delicious for Life, Randy Rabney of The Conscious Plate speaks to all of us regular people who want to cook real food from real ingredients, but aren’t quite sure where to start. She takes this complex subject matter and breaks it…

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Buy This Not That: Meat

February 1, 2011

Most people don’t want to think too much about where their meat comes from beyond the meat department in the grocery store. As a society, we spend a lot of time anthropomorphizing animals, which makes it hard to think about slaughtering and eating them. Who among us would eat Wilbur from Charlotte’s Web or the…

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Four Things To Cook, Not Buy

January 11, 2011

I’M SURE SOME PEOPLE HAVE NATURAL COOKING ABILITIES. I’M NOT ONE OF THEM. But these four things can be made at home by anyone, no special cooking abilities needed. Homemade tastes better, is better for our bodies, and costs less. A triple win! Food makers want – no NEED – us to buy their products.…

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Three Simple Ways to Healthier Eating Part 3: Reallocate Your Budget

December 14, 2010

One question I hear over and over again when talking to people about eating fewer processed foods is “How do I start?” It got me thinking back to how I started changing my families eating habits, how overwhelming it seemed, and what small first steps I took. The result is this three-part series of posts…

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Three Simple Ways to Healthier Eating Part 2: Redefine Snacks

December 6, 2010

One question I hear over and over again when talking to people about eating fewer processed foods is “How do I start?” It got me thinking back to how I started changing my families eating habits, how overwhelming it seemed, and what small first steps I took. The result is this three-part series of posts…

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Notes on Food Culture: Food is Beautiful

October 20, 2010
Notes on Food Culture: Food is Beautiful

OFTEN WHEN I’M COOKING, I PAUSE TO ENJOY the way the ingredients look together. Whether a main course, a side dish, a salad, or a dessert, the way the various food items look and smell together can have an overpowering impact. I just have to stop, look, and enjoy. Food is beautiful. WHEN WE PREPARE…

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