posts tagged "organic"
Product Review: Great Gifts from Boulder
Posted on May 29, 2007
Boulder is often called the “Mount Olympus” of the organic food industry. Boulder’s Best Organics, a web based business, provides a pantheon of locally made products including soaps, chocolate, wine and tea. This company offers a convenient way to ship a Rocky Mountain gift basket to far off friends and relatives who need a fix
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Product Review: Fiordifrutta
Posted on May 22, 2007
These delicious jams by fiordifrutta Rigoni di Asiago are made with 100% organic fruit. They’re juice sweetened –no cane sugar, fructose or other forms of processed sugar in disguise. This is the only organic jam I have found with no added sugar. The flavors are great! My favorites are orange and raspberry jam, though they
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Dirty Dozen
Posted on May 17, 2007
-photo from Shai Barzilay The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has a list of the one dozen fruits and vegetables highest in pesticides. These are best avoided unless purchased organic. Their dirty dozen includes, in alphabetical order: apples bell peppers (sweet) celery cherries grapes lettuce nectarines peaches pears potatoes spinach strawberries With fruit season almost upon
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Product Review: Stevia
Posted on March 6, 2007
I adore , however, there are times when I want something sweet and don’t want to increase my blood sugar level. This is when I reach for stevia, an herb 300 times as sweet as sugar with a glycemic index (GI) of 0. This low glycemic, low carbohydrate sweetener is widely used in Japan. In
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Butter Cookies
Posted on February 27, 2007
A simple butter cookie recipe made with heart healthy almond flour. I love baking cookies. This easy gluten free cookie recipe is one that my friend Mary and I like to bake when we are together. She likes it because it’s full of high protein, healthy ingredients that are Paleo/primal friendly. I met my friend
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Product Review: Agave Nectar
Posted on February 27, 2007
Sweetness is the first taste we experience in life, the primal taste of our infancy, of mother’s milk. For several years I researched delicious, healthy alternatives to sugar that held up well in the baking process, yet did not substantially raise glycemic index levels. Enter agave, the nectar of the agave cactus plant –a golden
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Future of Food
Posted on February 24, 2007
Did you know that farmers are being sued for growing food? Did you know that a company can purchase the genetic “patent” for a seed that has existed for thousands of years? Did you know that one company could eventually “own” all of the seeds in the world and that you could be arrested for
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Apricot Butter
Posted on December 10, 2006
My kids were hankering for something sweet the other day. So, I made this delicious sweet apricot butter recipe. It’s not a jam – it’s real butter with dried fruit pureed into it. Great on warm toast. It is one of my younger son’s favorite gluten free snacks. Apricot Butter ½ cup dried apricots ½
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Fun Raiser
Posted on December 4, 2006
Some school fundraisers are very desirable –a true service to both the school and the people that buy into them. One such fundraiser is the satsuma sale at my children’s Waldorf school. I like to think of this sale as more of a fun raiser, than a fundraiser. Every year, their school, Shining Mountain organizes
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