So how about it? Did you try the Food for Change Challenge last week? Even a little bit? I hope so, because I have that cool t-shirt to send to someone. I know I wasn’t much help in this challenge. I didn’t give you as much notice as I should have, I didn’t give enough [...]
Entries from August 9th, 2009
Getting food outside industrial system is a challenge
August 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Food selection, local food
Time’s flying, but here is fair news
August 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Healthy eating, local food
Ack! Suddenly I have more to do than I have time! That means I’m way behind in all the food things I want to tell you about, like the Rustic Peach Tart and the Ratatouille and the Naturally Nutritious Food Festival and the free food and the Easy Oven-Roasted Tomato Sauce and the great-tasting dish [...]
Avoiding HFCS isn’t easy away from home
August 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Food selection
Eating away from home is clearly the toughest part in the Food for Change Challenge. Take today for instance. I packed a good lunch featuring tomatoes, cantaloupe, milk, bread and fab dessert leftovers from a neighbor (a blueberry-blackberry-peach crumble!!)—all local and absent high fructose corn syrup. There was just one problem; it wasn’t enough. Unfortunately, [...]
Roundup: See local food list, and come see me
August 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Farmers markets, local food
The heat is here, and so’s the food and competitions. Read on! Local sources. I’ve put together a local food source list on its own page. See the link at the top of this page? You can click it any time to get to the list. As I note on the page, it’s inevitably a [...]
Day 1: Cottage cheese dilemma in Food for Change Challenge
August 3rd, 2009 · 7 Comments · Food selection, local food, recipes
What was I thinking? I was trying to throw together a quick brown-bag lunch on this first day of the Food for Change Challenge, and I discovered I already was messing up. Breakfast was OK. I had 100% organic cereal (so far, high-fructose corn syrup doesn’t qualify as organic) with Iwig milk, coffee, orange juice. [...]
Let the Food for Change Challenge begin!
August 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Food selection
Are you all set for the Food for Change Challenge? I’m not sure I am, but I’m going to make it work. If you weren’t here last week, when I proposed the challenge after seeing Food Inc., here is the plan (although I’ve changed my mind on how to choose the winner). 1. Skip HFCS [...]
