Cheap Organic Homemade Applesauce

Farmers+Market

We try to reserve Saturdays and Sundays for family time, and this week, visited the Farmer’s market to let the kids see all the sights and sounds and to try to find some decently priced apples for applesauce. I started making applesauce last year when we got an entire bushel through our CSA (Community Supported [...]

How to Lose Weight while Preventing the Flu this Season

As we enter the season of holidays (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, etc) and the season of flu, two concerns on many people’s minds are flu prevention and weight loss. Luckily, there are some simple suggestions that can help maintain a healthy weight and help bolster the body’s defenses against the flu and other illness [...]

Healthy Veggie Smoothie

spirulina smoothie

In order to get my daily requirement of vegetables without spending hours on end chewing salad, I have devised a way to cheat… Veggie Smoothies. I don’t recommend them for anyone new to eating vegetables, as they have been known to make even the most devoted vegan make a face, but the health benefits can’t [...]

Back to the Basics

Here are several of the most simple, but commonly ignored keys to health and wellness. 1. Drink water. A good starting benchmark for water consumption is to take half of your body weight and add twenty. That is the minimum number of ounces you should consumer, per day. If you exercise, add 8-16 ounces for [...]

Important and Useful Produce Information

Important and Useful Produce Information

You know those annoying little stickers that you have to pull off of your fruit before you can eat it? Those stickers can also be an easy way to tell how your produce was grown. Each fruit has a four of five digit Price Look-up (or PLU) code that is given based on how it [...]