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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
If you’re interested in food and you’ve been paying attention the last few years, you probably won’t see much in Food Inc. that will surprise you. I didn’t when I saw it yesterday. Still, I came away impressed, as Food Inc. ladles out the bad food news—the illnesses, the abuses, the power—making it more powerful [...]
I’m hereby declaring spring, and not a moment too soon for my taste. How do I know it’s spring? Two ways: The Lawrence Farmers Market opened on Saturday. Wind, rain, cold and gray skies greeted opening day the last couple of years, but not on Saturday. It was cool but brilliantly sunny, and about 30 [...]
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