Here’s one we’ve heard before: “The average American meal travels about 1500 miles to get from farm to plate” (CUESA). For a typical carrot it’s more like 1800 (Sustainable Table). I don’t feel good traveling that kind of distance and neither does our produce, not to mention the greenhouse gas emissions involved in the journey.

According to Steven L ( Read more... )

to the lovely anonyous gifter that got me THIS.........you have NO IDEA how it brightened my day! you have NO IDEA how much it cheered me up from my completely ass day! you have NO IDEA how awesome it is to come home to 2pounds of jellybellys- ESPECIALLY irregular ones!!!! i laughed and smiled and then nearly peed my pants... thankyou!thankyou! ( Read more... )

so michaelbosco has been in charge of making his lunch (and breakfast) while i'm at work- and he's been doing very well for a 12 year old. he started off with small things like cheese and crackers and sammitches and has been working his way up to pierogies and ravioli (not from a can ftr). He has seen the whole mac n cheese from a box process ( Read more... )

~i have found that the secret to making blehh leftover delicious again AS WELL AS getting your 12 year old to be very excited about dinnertime is making "CREATE YOUR OWN...." stations.... we had HOTDOGS last nite. HOTDOGS. HOT.DOGS. hotdogs even after michaelbosco balked at them. hotdogs even after he commented smartly "we just watched HELL'S ( Read more... )

Dinner tonite?
I made general tsao's chicken and meghann made veggie sushi rolls.
We may explode from goodness and joy and joyness. But, i dont wanna have to clean up our horrible-tasstic rice-splosion. we'll leave that for the dogs.