Every parent wants their kids to eat healthy, but if your family isn’t used to home-cooked meals, the extra time and money can make it easy to put off. Fortunately, there are simple steps you can take to keep your kids healthy without overhauling your routine, or busting your budget. Here are a few of… Read more:
Category Archives: Food
Hank D and the Bee: Exploding Eggs!
More on the Food Safety Inspection Cuts From WaPo’s WonkBlog: The Sequester: Absolutely everything you could possibly need to know, in one FAQ From ThinkProgress: Top Republican Blows Off Food Inspection Cuts Catch up on the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow… Read more:
Red Bull or the vegetable? In The Matrix of a food war, this kid chooses his pill
“There’s a war going on inside, no man is safe from: DDTs, PCBs, every corner in the hood got a KFC or McD’s. It’s crack speed like RED Bull-ish they pulpit – so caffeine, Kit Kat like a click-clack holes in your genes Cuz everything at market ain’t all what it seems.” – Food Fight… Read more:
Fighting Obesity One Meal at a Time
As children are ever growing, appetites will fluctuate drastically. At times it seems like they might eat you out of house and home. The next day, they may have very little of an appetite. The trick to fighting obesity in a child is monitoring what they consume. Naturally, a child’s metabolism could be running at… Read more:
13 Ways to Cultivate a Better Food System in 2013
As we start 2013, many people will be thinking about plans and promises to improve their diet and health. But we think a broader collection of farmers, policy-makers, and eaters need new, bigger resolutions for fixing the food system – real changes with long-term impacts in fields, boardrooms, and on plates all over the world.… Read more:
Hank D and the Bee: Keeping Only non-GMO Candy
More on GMOs in candy From Amy Ziff on HuffPo: Top 5 List of the Best, Good-for-You Halloween Candy (Psst… GMOs Are Not Invited) From the Non-GMO Shopping Guide: Non-GMO Candy From Eat.Drink.Better: GMO’s and the Fruit Sticker: 8 is NOT Great! 9 is Fine! From ElephantJournal: 9 Tricks for a Green Halloween It should… Read more:
Hank D and the Bee: Pistachio-Opening Tools
More on my favorite nut From Eat.Drink.Better.: Mood-Boosting Foods: Healthy Foods That Make You Happier From LocalHarvest: Braga Organic Nuts Eat.Drink.Better. again: Good Food: Gravelnuts Delivers Healthy Snacks That Taste Great Free signed Hank D and the Bee cartoon for anyone who sends me a photo of themselves painting a pistachio to look like Bee!… Read more:
Hank D and the Bee: Gone Fishin’
More on Fishing (kinda) and Food Trucks From Mother Nature Network: 10 eco-friendly food trucks From my poetry site: Fishing=Baiting and Waiting From Louie Armstrong and Bing Crosby: Gone Fishin’ Catch up on the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow Joe on… Read more:
Hank D and the Bee: More Eggs, Cheese, and Milk, Please.
More on Homesteading and Backyard Animals From Yes Magazine: Book Review: Urban Homesteading–Heirloom skills for sustainable living From Mother Earth News: COMPARING THE FIVE BEST BACKYARD ANIMALS Catch up on the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons.… Read more:
What are the Hidden Costs of Hamburgers?
“Americans love hamburgers – we each eat an average of three a week. But what are the hidden costs? It turns out that livestock create about as much greenhouse gas pollution as cars, planes and other forms of transport. It also takes a heavy environmental toll on land and water worldwide. How can we reduce… Read more:
Hank D and the Bee: Onion Farming?
More on our Founding Farmers From Seattle Times: ‘Founding Gardeners’: How gardening and farming shaped the thinking of Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Madison Catch up on the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons.… Read more: