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Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 21:33 in recipes
The first time I tasted fresh cranberry sauce was at Thanksgiving dinner at the home of a college roommate. What a revelation, and what an improvement over the bland canned jelled cranberry slices that I'd grown up with. My relationship to cranberr...
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Posted on Sunday December 13th, 2009 at 23:13 in cookbooks, gluten-free baking
Here's a new cookbook with gluten-free slow cooker recipes: Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cookingby Stephanie O'Dea.As you can see in the picture, I have a bunch of post-it notes marking the recipes I want to try, such as...
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Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 21:56 in breast cancer
Here's a book written by a man whose mother, sister, and wife have all had breast cancer. Stand by Her: A Breast Cancer Guide for Menby John W. Anderson has good advice for all aspects of supporting a woman through her cancer treatment.I cried when ...
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Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 23:04 in cookbooks, healthy living, gluten-free baking
Here's a new cookbook with good recipes and helpful information about healthy eating. Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More Than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable Youby Terry Walters is not only a guide to good ...
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Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 11:01 in recipes, cooking, wheat-free
This time last year I was wrestling with the details of planning my first wheat-free Thanksgiving dinner.The biggest wrench was having to change the stuffing and gravy, my two favorite parts of the meal. Stuffing without wheat bread? Gravy without ...
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Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 22:06 in preparedness
For several years I've been clipping and saving newspaper and magazine articles on being prepared for emergencies. They were neatly stored in a folder in my desk.In the middle of October I began putting the information in that folder to work. We no...
Bob Oshel
Beautifully written and insightful. I recently started putting freshly ground flax seeds onto my steel-cut oatmeal with goat milk in the mornings - you can't imagine how many systems are flowing much better now. I bought the Cuisinart SG-10 Electric Spice-and-Nut Grinder, which has a removeable bowl - very nice design. Keep those blogs coming, Gwenyth! Sooner or later everyone will realize that we are killing ourselves slowly when we buy processed food-like products and toilettries/cosmetics saturated with cheap, unregulated poisons. When we stop buying stuff in the center aisles of the grocery store and start buying from the local farms and markets, we will begin to win the battle and become a healthy population that no longer strains our "sick-care" infrastructure. Shopping is a political act. Learn to decipher the literary genre that is label-reading, and vote for health by not buying cheap food-like pruducts. Michael Pollen's guideline is "if the label has more than 5 ingredients, don't buy it." I would add, if the product includes an ingredient that you can't pronounce, don't buy it. Remember, you are the only person in the world that has a vested interest in your own health - stay informed, keep reading, ask questions, and don't buy it if you don't know what's in it or where it came from.
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