Real Food Forever

Real Food Forever

Category: Reuse Recycle

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Reduce Reuse Recycle

My son came home from school yesterday with food across the front of his shirt. When we asked him why he was such a mess, he said it was “No

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Serving bars in a strawberry bowl.

Cereal Bars

I found the Clean Plates Cookbook[1] that I told you about last Tuesday, and slightly modified their recipe for Kitchen Sink Almond Butter Snack Bars. They’re using that name because

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Serving roast on platter surrounded with vegetables.

Rump Roast and Onions

My daughter needed green onions for one of her recipes and, while shopping for them and not knowing exactly what they are, my husband bought a bag of pearl onions.

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MOM's storefront

MOMs

MOM’s, My Organic Market, currently has 12 stores between Virginia and Pennsylvania. The owner started providing organic produce out of his mom’s garage in the 1980s. They’re very focused on

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A plate of beautiful vegies.

Plastic Bags

On a few issues related to food, first, using re-usable shopping bags. I’ve never bought a cloth shopping bag and we have at least ten of them – mostly handouts

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Plate of half-eaten oysters with lemon and sauces.

Oysters – Shell Recycling

When I first heard about eating raw oysters in college, someone told me that you’re supposed to swallow them whole. It seemed kind of pointless to me to eat them

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Compost with fresh kitchen scraps on top

Backyard Composting

Food scraps and yard waste currently make up 20 to 30 percent of what we throw away, and should be composted instead. Making compost keeps these materials out of landfills

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baked ziti

Reuse

Sometimes on Sundays we get a coffee in the grocery store and have been trying to remember to take along our re-usable travel mugs from home — it struck me

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