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12 Quick and Easy Natural Snack Ideas for Kids

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Feeding your kids natural snacks that are fast and easy to prepare can be a challenge for fathers who aren’t so natural in the kitchen.
Depending on how often you prepare food for your kids, the chorus of “I’m hungryyy… what can I have to eat?” may make you grab for your keys and wallet, [...]

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The PB&J Campaign: Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time

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I’ve got a thing about peanut butter. I love it, almost to a fault.
So what better way to start off the new year than with a post about peanut butter? And not just about peanut butter, but about reducing the environmental destruction that comes as a result of our dietary choices.

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Hank D and the Bee: Hank Goes Veggie

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Sprouting Wheat Berries and Oat Groats

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High energy snacks that are healthy and cheap to make are great to have available for hungry kids and parents alike. Sprouted grains make quick, simple meals that are as nutritious as they are delicious.

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Food and Fuel and Foolish Crop Subsidies

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As a father and supporter of my family, one of the things I think about/deal with is our food costs. We spend a big part of our income on food. And we eat only the best. Always organically grown, locally grown if available, and lots of fresh food. Our kids deserve the best fuel for [...]

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Sprouting: How to Grow Sprouts at Home for Low Cost Nutritious Meals

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Sprouting at home is a simple way to lower your food costs, increase the amount of raw food in your diet, and be assured that the sprouts you eat are safe.
Sprouting seeds to eat is a skill you can learn quickly, and a sprout garden takes very little time to maintain. All the sprouting [...]

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Vegan Whole Wheat Cinnamon Raisin Quick Bread Recipe

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When the weather cools off, I love to bake bread, both with baker’s yeast and with a sourdough start, but nothing beats the instant gratification of a quickbread – there’s no rising, no kneading, just stir and cook. We like to make this cinnamon bread in the fall and winter for an easy, inexpensive dessert, [...]

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Ridiculously Good Pumpkin Spice Cookies

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Pumpkin spice cookies are a great way to celebrate fall!
One of my favorite things about fall is the abundance of winter squash and pumpkins at the farmers market. They’re such an awesome food – they grow very abundantly in most gardens, they store extremely well, they can feed a lot of people, and they are [...]

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Change This: Good Food Manifesto

“It is time and past time for this nation, this government, to react to the dangers inherent in its flawed farm and food policies and to reverse course from subsidizing wealth to subsidizing health.” – Will Allen
A new manifesto by farmer and community activist Will Allen was just posted to Change This, called A Good [...]

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Natural Foods for Less: Bulk Up at a Co-op

Join a Co-op and Bulk Up for Cheap!
Grocery prices got you down?
Organic foods seem out of your budget?
Join a co-op and buy your natural foods in bulk. Order ahead and get what you’d need for a month. You’ll always have the staples at hand, and you’ll save some cash at the same time.

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