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The cost of convenience: drive-throughs
Convenience is expensive. For as long as I recall, and probably generations earlier than that, advertisers have promised that their products will save time. We all know how that turned out. Gas or...
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The cost of convenience at the grocery store
It used to be that preparing meals for a family took a woman most of the day, especially back when she had to raise and slaughter whatever animals provided meat and grow her own produce. Nowadays, we...
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Reduce, reuse, recycle at the grocery
Check your shopping list. Is there trash on it? Nobody goes to the grocery to buy trash, but everyone comes home with plenty–the packaging. That carton of milk, that sack of chips, that bulk produce in...
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Food waste: a preventable shame
Americans have a wasteful habit of buying and serving up too much food. This pattern leads to an amazing amount of waste. In 2010, that was 34 million tons of food. The census of that year counted a...
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Hunger in America
Every year from just before Thanksgiving to just before Christmas, American society shines a spotlight on hunger. Local TV stations publicize seasonal food drives, or perhaps take part in sponsoring...
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Who Needs Pancake Mix?
When I started this blog, it hadn’t yet registered that my interest in good food was as green as my interest in recycling or energy conservation. I have already written generally about costly...
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What do a popular novel and light bulbs have to do with food?
In 1906, Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle sparked public revulsion toward the meat packing industry and lard in general. At about the same time, Procter & Gamble recognized that electric lights...
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The cost of convenience: cooked chicken strips
Salad with chopped chicken It’s nice to have cooked chicken to add to a salad, or to make quesadillas, or all kinds of things. Leftover chicken works, but we don’t always have any. So any number of...
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How can consumers impact the environment by drinking tea?
I just watched a video from Unilever explaining their sustainability program. It got some rather nasty comments. Unilever claims that the bulk of the environmental impact of its products comes from...
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How and why to add chia to your diet
Chia in yogurt Brown rice, a whole grain is better for us than refined white rice. The downside is that brown rice takes two or three times as long to cook as white rice. I discovered buckwheat groats...
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Norman Borlaug and the “green revolution”
Front and Back of Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Norman Borlaug / US Mint (2006) “Green revolution” refers to the vast increase in agricultural yields that began in the 1930s with advanced...
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Organic Food: Natural Nourishment for Your Mind and Body
Contributed by Daisy Rachel. Green organic food has become well-liked by everyone nowadays. Everyone wants to know what organic food are, if they are healthy, what type of food is organic and the...
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Engineered Eats: Labeling GMOs In The U.S.
Infographic. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have raised a lot of controversy and fear lately. So far, no one has proved that they are either safe or dangerous. The rhetoric goes beyond the...
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Delicious and Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes
It used to be almost an unwritten law that sweet potato casseroles had to be made with canned sweet potatoes, gobs of brown sugar, and marshmallows. Here are some healthier alternatives, and they...
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The Cost of Convenience: the Car and Fast Food
You’ve heard all the stories about how fast food contributes to obesity and other health problems. So why do we eat so much of it? It’s addictive, for one thing: multiple layers of yummy fat, sugar,...
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Organic Farming: Advantages and Disadvantages
Organic farm shop What does organic food have to do with sustainability and green living? For many people who are passionate about environmental issues, sustainability, especially sustainability in...
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Take a bite out of food waste
Food waste Does food waste bother you? I have seen estimates that between 30-40% of the food grown in this country never reaches the table. Once it does, food waste comprises the largest component of...
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Should We Be Afraid of Our Food?
It appears that the media, the food industry, and even groups that supposedly serve the public interest have been working to make Americans afraid of our food for decades. Unfortunately, Americans are...
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An orange light for GMOs?
Controversy has been swirling around GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) for years now. Genetic engineering promises to boost crop yields, enhance the nutritional value of foods, provide new...
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Limited results in the quest for sustainable beef
Sustainable beef may seem to some like an oxymoron. About 40 years ago I bought a cookbook called Diet for a Small Planet. The introduction claimed that it takes 16 pounds of grain to produce a single...
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