I’d love to be able to tell you that my kids are vegetable chow hounds. I have blog with “vegetables” and “kids” in the tag line after all, shouldn’t it follow that I get to tell tales of my little posse begging for broccoli, beans and beets? Shouldn’t I be writing posts about how easy … Read more
Spicy Red Lentil Chili and CSA’s: Totally Related
February 19th, 2011 | Posted by in Healthy Habits - (8 Comments)CSA = Community Supported Agriculture. (Not “Can’t Stand Alison”, thankyouverymuch.) If this acronym is new to you, in short – a CSA is an opportunity for you, the consumer, to get your produce direct from a local farmer. Find a farm that offers CSA memberships and you can buy a share of their crops for … Read more
Zen and the Art of Preparing Brussels Sprouts
February 8th, 2011 | Posted by in Dinner Time - (12 Comments)I’ve written casually about my favorite way to make Brussels sprouts before, but now I feel that this vegetable dish deserves an official post of its own because: 1. I make them all the time and have therefore seriously improved my method 2. I want to flesh out each step that goes into preparing Brussels … Read more
Let’s start this post by tackling a very important question you surely have:* What is the difference between a scallion and a leek? Well, I’m glad you asked because until today I didn’t know either. When getting ready to write up this recipe I couldn’t remember if the green onion-y things I picked up in … Read more
I love cereal, but I rarely buy it. Because if I bought it, I would eat it. And the kids would eat it too. Now of course I don’t think cereal is inherently bad or purposefully tries to be evil, but it’s just too damn easy to sit down and eat 600 calories worth of … Read more
In my continual quest to show my brood that food doesn’t grow on grocery store shelves, in conjunction with my desire to save money on produce whilst flying under the child labor law radar, we went strawberry picking this week. I’m trying to get you to believe that I’m this do-awesome-stuff-feed-my-kids-right-awesomely-incredible homeschooling mom, but really … Read more
Last year right around this time I found The Raw Foods Detox Diet by Natalia Rose. I was so excited and convinced by all the rawesome stuff in her book that I did a bunch of things she said to do, as well as the one big thing she said not to do; that is, … Read more
Well, I have no pictures of our woodland adventures today because we were not there long enough to take any pictures. Within about 10 minutes I had two very cold, cranky girls on my hands that not even a backpack full of refined carbohydrates (pretzels, granola bars, kashi crackers) could turn around. It WAS cold … Read more
Today I was on a mission: Bake Healthy Cookies. There’s a fundraiser going on this weekend for one of the homeschooling organizations we’re a part of – and there’s going to be a bake sale. The group requested the donation of healthy, homemade treats to sell. Given the population of attendees; organic, gluten free or … Read more
Where’s the place to be on a cold, dreary day? The beach of course! We met up with our “Get These Kids Outside Or Bust” homeschooling group and today was a true test of our pledge to get outside even in the crummiest of weather. It was cold. It was rainy. There was whining. Ava … Read more
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