Recent Posts Tagged With 'organic'

• Summer harvest

  Posted on Sunday July 19th, 2009 at 21:00 in children, kids, garden, salad, vegetarian, organic, vegetables, blog carnival, blogroll, vegetable, bloggers unite, grapes

  Our first harvest of the season included eggplant, arugula, basil and cilantro. The kids joined me in putting together an arugula salad, and we decided to add red grapes and pine nuts for color and crunch. For the dressing, we whisked together ...

• Farm-to-table (The 2009 version)

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 16:01 in organic, vegetables, organic food, vegetable, eggplant, tomatoes, vegetable garden, organic produce

  Don’t want to jinx it, but I can hardly resist the first glimmer of hope in my organic vegetable garden.  This is our second year, and buoyed by our beginner’s luck last year (click here for the earlier post), we went all out  this time...

• Farm-to-table

  Posted on Thursday August 14th, 2008 at 11:32 in zucchini, organic, vegetables, organic food, tomato, chili, dirt, tomatoes, organic produce

  A few months ago, we embarked on our most ambitious summer project yet. An organic vegetable garden in our backyard! We planted tomatoes, zucchini, green chilies, basil, cilantro, peppermint, cucumbers and bell peppers. To our delight, most (R.I...

• Organic frozen kids’ meals — healthy AND good?

  Posted on Saturday August 9th, 2008 at 10:45 in nutrition, mom, organic, organic food, Ingredients, fast food, labeling, organic produce, picky eaters, nutrition guidelines, school-age kids

  The Wall Street Journal just had a short story about organic frozen kids’ meals. Mixed reviews from their tween and teen testers. Check it out here.   (Personally, I want the whole Jetson experience of pressing a button on my fridge and ma...

• Feed the little ones PB&J and save the planet

  Posted on Thursday May 15th, 2008 at 10:00 in organic, carbon footprint, peanut butter, bloggers unite, jelly, peanut butter and jelly, bloggers unite for human rights

  Something like that, at least. When I first heard about the PB&J Campaign, I nearly dismissed the idea out of hand, because the campaign’s goal appears to be to make vegetarians out of us all. We are avowed carnivores in our house, and...

• Naturally unnatural — or should that be unnaturally natural?

  Posted on Thursday May 1st, 2008 at 16:24 in Natural, Chicken, organic, poultry, labeling, food labels, food labeling, food label

  Like any mom, I want to feed my children the best I can. Sometimes those efforts go awry, such as — not that this has EVER happened to me! — when your four-year-old sees one of those little bags of Fritos and begs for it and, well, you&...

• The pesticides your children are ingesting

  Posted on Wednesday March 26th, 2008 at 16:42 in organic, organic food, produce, children's health, pesticides, organic produce

  I’ve always wondered about organic food and whether I should make sure that’s what my children (and the rest of my family!) are eating. We only buy organic milk for the tots because I’ve always figured that the ever-earlier pub...