From the category archives:

My New Food Habits

My farmers market has ended, sadly. For weeks, I have been looking ahead, wondering how I will get local food throughout the winter. If I normally bike to the grocery store, does driving 15 minutes to a local farm negate the environmental benefits of buying locally?

Today, I was told that quinoa (a native peruvian “grain”, [...]

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Prepare for the shortest how-to advice ever. How can you stop that feeling of needing sweets after a meal to feel fully satisfied? Follow these simple steps:

Eat Real Food

There isn’t any other secret. No joke.
Before I started eating local, organic, real food, I never felt satisfied after a meal without dessert. In fact, the guy [...]

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Why Eating Well Sucks

by Ryan Wanger on October 6, 2008 · 1 comment

It’s been two months now since I switched over to real, local, and organic foods. Yesterday, I attended an awesome gathering that included 4 TVs running simultaneously, each showing different NFL games. Oh yeah, and tons of free food.

I was thankful! I was gracious! I left feeling disgustingly full.

Honestly, I didn’t think I had eaten all that [...]

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We’re almost at the two month mark since I’ve switched over to eating local, organic, and whole foods, so I thought I’d share the most successful meal to date. Honestly, almost everything I’ve prepared in the last two months has tasted better than anything I have cooked in the past, and so far this is [...]

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This list has been circulating around, so I thought I’d take a stab at it. Foods I’ve eaten are bolded, and the parentheses are my own comments. (Technically, I’m supposed to cross out foods I wouldn’t eat, but I don’t want to limit myself if I happen to be stuck on a desert island with [...]

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