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Americans throw away about 10% of the food they buy at the supermarket. This results is dumping the equivalent of more than 21 million shopping bags full of food into landfills every year. (EarthWorks Group. 1990. The Recycler’s Handbook. Berkeley, CA: The EarthWorks Press.)
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Weekly Recipe: Quick and Easy Vegetable Soup

vegetable soup

Massachusetts winters are cold. It’s the time of year when I crave comfort foods of all sorts. Most of the comfort foods I crave take a long time to prepare, but not [...]

Weekly Recipe: Roasted Root Vegetables

One way to live a sustainable life is to eat foods grown close to home. When the weather gets cold nothing is more comforting than roasted foods, and root vegetables are more readily available locally this time of year. Root vegetables also taste great, are low in calories, and are high in fiber. Luckily roasting is an easy way to cook as [...]