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3 Markers You Must Have in Your Fridge and Why They’ll Save Your Leftovers

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Labeling food containers is such an important habit in keeping our kitchens organized and preventing food waste. Sometimes food storage labels work but I have an easier solution for kitchen labeling – for everything from labeling jars to plastics.  Every single human wrestles with certain deep, existential questions in life. You know, the “who am […]

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Monday Missions Baby Steps Back to Basics

Monday Mission: Buy A Whole Chicken {Debunking 6 Objections to Buying A Whole Bird}

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to STOP buying boneless skinless chicken breast and buy a whole chicken instead. Welcome to a four-part series giving Help Handling the Whole Chicken! We’re starting off with a Monday Mission. Now if you’ve been around Kitchen Stewardship® for very long, you may be scratching your head

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Monday Missions Baby Steps Back to Basics

Monday Mission: The Dilemma of Donating and Sharing Real Food (& a $7 Challenge!)

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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to brainstorm some ways that you can bless others with food without compromising (too much) on your real food philosophy. We’ve talked about donating food before and how tricky it is to find non-perishable real food that folks would actually know what to do with. You can

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Cereal Is Like a Twinkie for Breakfast – Let’s Do Something About It!

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News flash! Kids’ cereal has lots of sugar in it, and – are you ready for this? It may not be good for you. The Environmental Working Group released a study detailing the amounts of sugar in popular children’s cereals, noting that many of them have more sugar than a Twinkie. A Twinkie! Could they

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Real Food and Politics: S510 Food Safety Modernization Act and Raw Cheese Seizures

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I’ve hesitated to jump into the fray lately, partly because I was attempting to avoid “one more thing” to research, and partly because I don’t feel very politically minded sometimes. It makes me tired to try to figure out who’s telling the truth and what the lawyer-speak in bills really means. The real food blogosphere

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Mary and Martha Moment: Focusing on Soap vs. the Sanctity of Life

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Disclaimer:  I am a Catholic. This blog always has been an act of and inspired by my faith. My faith permeates everything I do, including the choices I make in the kitchen. This post is a little risky, outside the sphere of Kitchen Stewardship® (yet so important to stewardship that it cannot be left unpublished).

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Bath and Body Works/Triclosan Update: KS Responds to their Reply

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Triclosan Update! If you live in the Washington, D.C. area, please participate, and for everyone, please forward this info on to anyone you know in D.C.: On September 12th Washington D.C. residents can wash their hands of Triclosan by dropping off any products they find in their homes that contain this ingredient at the Whole

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Mind the Microwave Challenge & My Research

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Microwave use is the first truly controversial subject we tackled here at Kitchen Stewardship®. I told you in this post that I’m starting with the foods that have only positive research going on around them. Eating more beans, yogurt, and chicken broth, getting vegetables into your diet more regularly…these are things that are no-brainers. Every nutritionist,

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