giveaway: Annie’s organic pizza

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I have a confession to make. I like pizza. It’s not healthy, and it’s not (usually) organic. But it’s easy. And I like easy, because I am not good at cooking. Pizza is definitely not something I would want to eat every day. But on the weekends, or...

forget about pink slime: win a healthy, organic, free lunch!

by | | Giveaways, Healthy Food

A few weeks ago, I was talking to a neighbor about preschool lunches. The topic came up because I had come home to get my daughter’s lunch and bring it back to school, because I’d forgotten it. Again. This happens to me all the time. “You...

sneaky healthy food for a picky eater

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Like many preschoolers, my daughter is a picky eater. For some reason I always thought that my excellent feeding choices when she was a baby would result in a child who loved healthy food. And preferably exotic food. I imagined that because her first foods were...

pumping breast milk

by | | Babywearing, Healthy Food

I’ve been breastfeeding for four years, and last night was the first time I ever used a breast pump. Which just goes to show you that you really don’t need to know how much you’re producing to have a successful breastfeeding relationship. A friend of...

edible wild mushrooms in my yard? this is not how I wanted to find out

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Eating locally. That’s a good thing to do, right? And there’s no food more local than the food that grows in our yard. When we bought our house in February, we started the garden before we’d even moved into the house. It’s small, but it’s...

true confessions tuesday: I’m a terrible cook

by | | Healthy Food

For some reason, anytime I hear anything with “organic” in the name, I associate it with food. Unless it’s a baby carrier or a cloth diaper, I tend to assume that organic means something edible. (And even if it’s not supposed to be edible,...