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Thursday, January 1, 2015

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Cheap and Easy: Recipes for the Broke and Tired
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Easy basic cooking skills and frugally driven recipes that work as needed inspiration after soccer practice or as a daily tool. Plus, some sympathetic stories of how I get my children to eat more vegetables.


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Zero Waste is a difficult thing to manage for some of us. Yet I try.

I think it's more than a trend. I think it's a sensitivity to a food security crisis that we have in our world. I don't like waste, particularly food waste. It's horrific that statistics suggest we have enough food to diminish world food insecurity, but due to politics, infrastructure issues and corporate policies, food isn't getting onto the tables of our neediest people. Whenever possible, I try to donate extra food and/or canned goods to our local meals program. If you haven't thought about it, that's okay, but maybe think about it now, and see if you, too, can give back to your local community's food programs. Just a little bit is still helpful.
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