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10 Tips for Shopping the Farmers’ Market

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The Early Bird Gets the Worm Strawberries Saturday morning I got up bright and early to go to the farmers’ market. I knew the first crop of this season’s local strawberries was in, and I didn’t want them to get sold out before I got there. They are open from 9 to 1, and I [...]

The Real Food I Buy and Where I Buy It

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At first I was just going to link to Stephanie’s post, The Nitty-Gritty on The Real Food I Buy and Where I Buy It, in my Saturday Links and Shout Outs post, but then I thought, why not write my own? It is always interesting to me what other “real foodies” (I hate that term, [...]

What’s On The Menu: Easter

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I don’t host many holiday gatherings, so when I do, I like to make them extra special. Our Easter dinner will be small, just seven of us, and I’m not making anything terribly original, but it’s about 90% fresh and local, and that makes me happy. Here’s what we’re having: I ordered the ham and [...]

What Do You Do When Your Pudding Flops?

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Make frozen pudding pops, of course! Recipe: Chocolate Pudding via Simply Recipes (I suspect the raw milk didn’t thicken like pasteurized milk does. Otherwise, I’m at a loss. I followed the directions to a T, and in the past it has always turned out.)

When You Can’t Do It All

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If you’re anything like me, when you read all those real food blogs, you get totally inspired. You read all about the benefits of the kefir and the organ meats and the fermenting and the sprouting and the soaking . . . and you WANT to do it all. You really, really do. In fact, you are [...]

On Becoming a Localvore (with Menu Plan Monday)

While reading Animal Vegetable Miracle back in the summer, I had a bit of an epiphany about eating seasonally and locally. I had been trying to eat local, but it never quite hit me that eating seasonally is a huge part of that. It’s just another example of how we as a culture are totally [...]

Healthy Lunch Ideas

With yet another school year now under way, I’ve been asked to revisit the topic of school lunches.  Since I wouldn’t feed the crap they serve in the school lunch line to my worst enemy (okay, maybe my WORST enemy, haha), I opt to pack my kids’ lunches every day.  My frugal husband also takes [...]

Interview: Kelly the Kitchen Kop

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You may remember that I posted last week about an online course from Kelly the Kitchen Kop, Real Food for Rookies.  I asked her if she wouldn’t mind answering a few questions for us, and of course she obliged. Last week I introduced the course, and i told you what an incredible influence and source [...]

EGGS! Glorious Eggs!

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You would have to be living under a rock not to know about the HUGE egg recall going on right now.  Of course, not all eggs are tainted; just the ones that came from these two particular farms, which rumor has it, are among the worst of these types of operations. What’s funny, to me, [...]

Real Food For Rookies

Kelly the Kitchen Kop was the very first real food blog I found after I read Michael Pollan’s book and decided to change the way our family eats.  There were weeks that I spent hours and hours poring over her site, reading post upon post upon post.  Her information is well researched and easy to [...]

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