Top 10 Ways to Prepare Kale

Kale is considered to be one of the Super Foods for those concerned with eating healthy, local grown diets. According to Wikipedia, "Kale is very high in beta carotene,...
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10 Pointers for Farmers’ Market Shopping

Here are our some great tips to help you navigate and optimize your local farmer's market! There is definitely a method to the madness...
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Top 10 Hidden Costs to Buying Cheap Food

We all struggle with affording proper meals that nourish and sustain us. And it's tempting to go the easy route and buy conventional, non-organic foodstuff to save money. In...
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14 Steps to Cut Out Processed Food

Read how one family took a pledge to eat Real Food. Here are 14 Steps they recommend to help you achieve reduce processed foods from your diet. This goes...
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Top 10 Superfoods

The term "superfood" has become something of a marketing buzzword in recent years, and many processed food products will boast such ingredients. But don't be fooled. Processing tends to...
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What's the 2nd Best way to support Local food?

Hint: It won't cost you any money and it takes less than five minutes...

“Real Food” Condiments: Do They Exist?

I get a lot of questions about condiments. And surprisingly enough, condiments were one of the things I missed the most during our “100 Days of Real Food” pledge....

When it’s not Local

People assume that because I consider myself a locavore that I eat 100% local food. Wrong. I hope to someday get to that place – but at this stage...

Why Eat Locally Grown Food?

The more I learned about where our food was coming from, the angrier I got. I had never really thought about it before. But once you know this stuff,...

Methyl Iodine and Strawberries

You may already know that conventional strawberries fall into the Dirty Dozen list of conventional foods that you should avoid. This is because strawberries are sprayed with massive amounts...