Updated!!!! Cheap Eats: Meats!

With the rising cost of food, it’s always nice to find “cheap eats” that are nourishing, sustainable, and affordable. Here are my “meat principles”:

Meat must be raised on pasture
Meat must be raised on a farm that is farmer-owned
Meat that meets the criteria above contains healthy fats like CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid, therefore fatty meat is [...]

Thrifty Oreganic Tips: Healthy Snacks on the Go!

“Ideally, we would eat all of our meals sitting down….”
So begins Sally Fallon’s chapter on “snacks” in her life-changing cookbook, _Nourishing Traditions_. Since reading this book and thus changing the way our family eats, I have found that snacks are less needed then they were before. Some of the reasons why I think we don’t [...]

Editorial on Laziness

Maybe it’s because I was FOB all day Tuesday due to this nasty bug that hit SW Portland with a vengance (so it seems!), but as I slept and slept, and cooked not and cleaned not, I got to thinking about laziness. Perhaps it was also watching my dear little lettuce seedlings wilting as [...]