Category Archives: Nutrition

So Many Recipes–So Little Time!

                This has been the oddest summer--one week it's almost 100 degrees, the next we get 10 inches of rain, and today the high is 60 degrees!  This does lots of nasty things to produce!  This week, our CSA bag was loaded with new potatoes, tomatoes, acorn and spaghetti squash and sweet peppers. Everything looks terrific, considering. photo 1 (2) I need to take a dish to a football party, and was trying to think
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September is Hunger Action Month

       

 

Hunger Action Month Impact

September is Hunger Action Month – a nationwide campaign from Feeding America that unites communities to take action against the issue of hunger and help reach 49 million facing food insecurity. --Hunger exists in every county in the countryand impacts 16 million children. --1 in 6 people may not know where their next meal is coming from.

GAMD Makes It Easy

In partnership with Feeding America, the Great American Milk Drive is one of the many, easy ways to take action
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Check Your Portions

The August Recipe Redux theme 'Bars and Bites for Brown Bags' really spoke to me more in terms of portion sizes and how we can still have that bite size treat without breaking our overall healthy eating pattern. Over the years portion sizes have grown to double and almost triple in terms of size. Many times people use the terms "portion size" and "serving size" interchangeably. But should we? Portion is the amount of food that you pile on your
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