Cast Iron Cookware: Alternative to Teflon and Hard Anodized Aluminum
The well-known non-stick cookware surfaces — Teflon and hard anodized aluminum — should be avoided because of health concerns. Teflon, by DuPont, and other similar surfaces, “may release little bits of inert plastic into the food when cooked, as well as toxic fumes over high heat,” [...]
Where Do Our Food Dollars Go?
The given
We all spend money on food.
The questions
How much money do we have to spend on food?
Where do we spend our food dollars?
Thinking through some answers
1. To answer the first question, we simple examine our food budget. Certainly, we don’t want to go over-budget. This is pretty cut and dried.
2. The second question is not [...]
Reheating Foods Without A Microwave
We have not used a microwave for about four years. We read enough about it to confirm a belief that our food would be more healthful if we did not use a microwave. The purpose of what I write here is not to convince you to do without one, but rather to help you make [...]
My GNOWFGLINS™ Pantry List
My pantry is never as full as this list would suggest. Don’t use this list as the end all authority for your own natural foods pantry. Use it as a starting place for evaluating and/or improving your own pantry. Most everything in it is good for us, but it would start working against us if [...]
Getting There, Working Toward, GNOWFGLINS™
Those who stumble here, or purposely visit, could easily assume that we have “arrived” in terms of reaching our goals of eating GNOWFGLINS™ (God’s Natural, Organic, Whole Foods, Grown Locally, In Season).
We haven’t. But we’re working toward it.
Even before we bought this property in the Pacific Northwest on which we now live, we had a [...]
