It’s a new year. And with a new year, comes new resolutions. What’s at the top of your list? For many of us, it’s the goal to lose weight. So you get rid of the junk food and replace it ...
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7 Food Storage Mistakes You May Be Making Right Now
During a crisis, there are no “do-overs.” You need to prepare now. You need to prepare well. Make a crisis bearable by not making these thoughtless mistakes. 1. Got water? This might be the first thing you think of storing, ...
Read More »14 Foods You Should NEVER Buy At The Grocery Store
Ah, convenience. With clever marketing and packaging, we can be lulled into thinking we need to buy certain foods and products because they are quicker and easier. But at what cost? Most convenience foods are expensive and unhealthy. What’s more, ...
Read More »How America Could (Literally) Run Out Of Food – And What You Can Do
Italy’s first McDonald’s was about to open in Rome, and journalist and gastronomist Carlo Petrini was not going to stand idly by. Petrini assembled his friends and community to protest the global industrialization of food and take a stand for ...
Read More »How To Replace All Your Unhealthy Snacks Without Sacrificing Taste
A couple of years ago I bought myself a dehydrator for Christmas. I had been hearing for a while about the benefits of dehydrating food and besides, it sounded kind of fun. Whether you’re a hard core off-gridder and build ...
Read More »FDA Makes Stunning Admission About Safety Of America’s Food
What’s in your food? If you’re like most Americans, you probably don’t know. And with all the chemicals being added into our food, even the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it doesn’t know all of the ingredients in our ...
Read More »Learn This Woman’s ‘Kitchen Secret’ To Looking 30 Years Younger
Having written a story on growing fodder for livestock some months back, I was able to glean a bit of info on the benefits of sprouting. I learned that barley sprouts are a nutritious alternative to commercial feeds that can ...
Read More »4 Healthy (And Delicious) Fermented Drinks You’ll Love
Fermented foods and drinks may seem like a new food fad, but most of them have evolved over thousands of generations before they were handed down to us. Every culture, old or new, and every region in the world has ...
Read More »How To Store Fresh Vegetables For Months … Without A Refrigerator
If gardeners find spring and summer to be about growing food, they find fall and winter to be more about storing food. The fall season brings bountiful harvest from your own garden as well as inexpensive prices from local farmers’ ...
Read More »23 Foods You Didn’t Know You Could Freeze
When I was a new mother, I remember an older, more experienced mom advising me to get a freezer. She assured me I would need one now that my husband and I had started our family. At the time, I ...
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