Local eating :

Top 10 Tips for Eating Local Food on a Budget

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(the following tips are my own and not from the book pictured above) 1. Participate in a CSA. And use ALL of it. Many people balk at the sight of the up-front costs, but we’ve found it is a deal if you can eat all of it. It does[...]

What does eating local mean when you are dining out?

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Picking restaurants that source from area farms can be a real minefield.  First, how do they define local?  Some people define it as 50 miles, some as Texas.   Growers Alliance of Central Texas (GroACT), a newly formed group of local[...]

Subscribe to a Community Supported Agriculture Program (CSA) in your community Encouraging Healthy Eating while supporting our Local Economy

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The concept of buying local is simply to buy food produced, grown, or raised as close to your home as possible. With over industrialization in the United States, our food is now grown and processed in fewer and farther locations, meaning[...]

FoodBuzz: 24, 24, 24 - Eating Local - Dallas, Texas

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Howdy y’all!  Welcome to Texas! One evening, while feeling particularly full of myself, I submitted a proposal for Foodbuzz’s montlhy 24, 24, 24 event.  For those of you reading who do not know what 24, 24, 24 is I’ll[...]

Try this "local" dinner at home

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Image by Anne With An "E" via Flickr We started with Alaskan king crab and corn chowder . The entree was ravioli stuffed with smoked mozzarella and artichokes , and I dressed two salads of organic mixed greens with organic[...]

Guest Post: Clean Eating

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Hi guys! My name is Andrea and my little home on the web is over at Offhercork.com .  I talk about various things, but mostly about food because I love it so much!  Food is one thing that everyone has in common.  We all need to eat and every one[...]

Eating Locally in San Diego

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I’ll be attending the FoodBuzz blogger festival this weekend, which I’m sure will be full of tempting treats! So I’ve been determined to not eat junk on this trip. I really wasn’t sure how to find a good restaurant, so[...]

Top 10 Best Books on Conscious Eating

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M y library routine is pretty, well, routine. I return the books I've finished, pick up the books I've put on hold, and make a beeline for the cookbooks and cooking section. It's not large, maybe ten shelves, but this section never fails to[...]

will clean eating destroy my life savings?!

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?.probably not?but if you aren?t around to enjoy them, what?s the point, anyway? This weekend I helped pass out food from a gleaner?s truck as a part of my church?s outreach program. Most of the food was actually fresh (or fairly fresh) produce,[...]

Eating Mostly Locally: Vegetarian Ramen for Lunch

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I know that many of people approach eating locally with a mentality of deprivation. They discuss what they will give up while they endeavor to eat locally, usually for a set period of time, whether a week, a month or a day, They talk about[...]