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Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes…

October 11, 2011




Last week my partner went out to our friend’s organic farm and picked tomatoes. Lots of tomatoes. Big ones, small ones. Red ones, green ones, and orange ones. This weekend, I turned most of them from tomatoes into pasta sauce, with smaller amounts going toward ratatouille, salsa and fried green tomatoes. Some are cooked and [...]

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North America can do processed foods better

April 30, 2010




In the North American context, there always seems to be a battle between processed foods and whole foods. Processed foods are convenient, but full of sodium, sugar, preservatives, unhealthy fats, food colouring, and all sorts of crap you can’t pronounce. On top of that, there is the packaging that kills the environment and also harms [...]

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10 ways to feed your family without killing the planet (Blog Action Day)

October 15, 2009




Today is Blog Action Day 2009. Last year’s theme was poverty and I effortlessly wrote a long post about our Empathy Deficit and how it is preventing us from making poverty history. This year’s theme is climate change. Just a few days ago I was listening to Tim Flannery on CBC radio talking about his [...]

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Organic on the cheap! 10 strategies

July 24, 2008




I hear a lot of people say that they couldn’t possibly buy organic food for their family because it is too expensive. I agree that if you want fresh strawberries and mangoes in January in Canada or want to pick up individually wrapped fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts, then it is unaffordable. However, using some [...]

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Germs versus chemicals

June 13, 2008




I feel a bit overwhelmed to be writing about this topic. But maybe trying to put some of my thoughts and findings into writing will help me wade through the complexity of it all. My hypothesis is that parents seem to fall into one of two camps. They are either afraid of harmful germs or they [...]

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