Let’s give a huge Food Saver Friday welcome to guest blogger – my friend, Michaela Gasseling. One of Michaela’s passions is teaching others that healthy eating does not have to be expensive, bland, or complicated. She keeps it simple by planning her family’s menu each week and then prepping the ... READ the POST
Introducing – Food Saver Friday
If you will recall, I kicked off the year with a series entitled Diary of a Recovering Food Waster (DOARFW). I chronicled our struggles and successes in reducing our food waste diary style. And while I loved writing that series, I always felt like it was lacking – like something was missing. So I ... READ the POST
If It’s A Farm – It’s A Family Farm
Ninety-seven percent of the farms in the United States are family farms. – 2012 Census of Agriculture Farm Typology By definition, a family farm is any farm where the majority of the business is owned by the operator and individuals related to the operator. And that is a pretty impressive ... READ the POST
Raising Kids and Conventional Beef
Parenting and raising beef. They have more in common than one might think, including the fact that nobody does either one exactly the same. Several of my closest friends are also moms. Despite our closeness and the crazy amount of things we have in common, we all have differences in the ways we ... READ the POST
Diary of a Recovering Food Waster – Part 2
I am not going to lie to you, folks, the second two weeks of our journey to less food waste did not go quite as well as the first two weeks… Jan 18: In my valiant attempt to not waste anything from our Bountiful Basket, I made sautéed zucchini and baked hash browns with a side of patty melt for ... READ the POST
Diary of a Recovering Food Waster – Leftover-Makovers
As I was reading back over the entries from the last couple of weeks, I noticed a couple of things: 1) we ate A LOT of chicken and 2) the common theme was the leftover-makeover. I probably could work on making meals in portions that are more suited to what we will actually eat in one sitting, but ... READ the POST
