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2019 ‘Dirty Dozen’ Foods: Toxic Produce

The Environmental Working Group's Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ is out for 2019 and it tells a tale of increased pesticide use on conventionally grown US produce. The list includes some of the healthiest foods we could be eating. But if you're eating the conventionally grown versions on on the 'dirty dozen' foods list, instead of being healthy, they are downright toxic. Other facts revealed in the report include [...]

By |2019-03-27T10:28:33-07:00March 26th, 2019|Blog, Fruits and Vegetables|0 Comments

Coming Clean on Washing Pesticides Off Fruits and Vegetables

Does Washing Pesticides Off Fruits and Vegetables Accomplish Anything? In the latest EWG "Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce"™ the group observed that the USDA 'vigorously washed' all produce before testing. The group also consistently recommended washing pesticides off fruits and vegetables as a way to reduce contamination on produce. Also, studies show that washing can reduce contamination levels. But those with any real in-depth understanding of the nature of pesticides [...]

By |2019-03-26T03:36:40-07:00March 26th, 2019|Blog, Fruits and Vegetables|0 Comments

Bone Broth Over Spring Greens

Nothing stirs spring fever like the first green shoots heralding the coming new season, even when your hands are still wrapped around a mug of hot bone broth, New green tufts of baby onions join the sturdy green of October-planted garlic, everyone rising slowly skyward. Winter worn kale unfurls new leaves of a brighter tender green and the cold frames take on a pale green haze of tiny new seedlings [...]

By |2019-03-22T20:17:20-07:00March 22nd, 2019|Fruits and Vegetables, Recipes|0 Comments

Juicing Recipes: Making the Healthy Fresh Juices We Love

The Power of Healthy Recipes for Relieving Pain, Healing Chronic Conditions and Supporting Vibrant Health Juicing Recipes: Everybody's Looking for Something If you're into juicing, chances are you like using juice recipes. Simple or complex, a juice recipe's main job is to make it easy for you to follow so you can create a fantastic juice. Healthy juice recipes to feed your mitochondria. In some ways, juice recipes [...]

By |2018-10-25T12:10:24-07:00August 29th, 2018|Blog, Fruits and Vegetables, Good Stuff, Juicing, Recipes|4 Comments

How to Make Sure Your Strawberries Are Healthy

Here at SustainableYum, we love our strawberries. There is no better way to eat healthy and Healthy Eating Strawberries celebrate the arrival of Spring than with a nice big bowl of fresh strawberries. We’d say, in fact, that a bowl of cut up strawberries and bananas may be the most delicious way to eat healthy on earth. Unless of course, you were to whip up some fresh raw [...]

By |2019-05-14T11:58:23-07:00May 18th, 2018|Blog, Fruits and Vegetables|0 Comments

Celeriac – The Better Breakfast (Lunch and Dinner) Vegetable!

Looking for something gooey yummy and warm for those chilly winter nights? Or maybe a nice addition for a weekend breakfast hash with eggs? Or a crispy, mild celery flavored ingredient to shred onto a fresh taco? This versatile winter root vegetable can virtually ‘do it all’! Even if you just want something that feels like eating a nice soft pile of potatoes without the nightshades, calories or high carbs? [...]

By |2018-08-31T18:15:59-07:00March 16th, 2018|Fruits and Vegetables, Good Stuff, Recipes|0 Comments

5 Potent and Powerful Healing Herbs from the Kitchen Garden

Herbs are potent healers and add wonderful flavors to a wide range of foods. From salads to soups, stews to desserts, baked goods and all manner of dressings and sauces, herbs can transform the flavors of our food. Eat them for their great taste and they will impart their healing as an added benefit. A Family of Culinary Herbs Perhaps most diverse and well used in the kitchen is the family Lamiaceae.   Sometimes called the [...]

By |2018-11-02T23:03:31-07:00July 12th, 2016|Blog, Fruits and Vegetables, Good Stuff|0 Comments

Cranberry Bars: A Delicious Way to Get the Full Power of Cranberries!

Cranberries: The Miracle Food of the Holiday Season My favorite part of the onset of the holiday season just might be that it signals the cranberry harvest. That brief window of time when fresh cranberries can be found in the market, at farmers markets or even at nearby local farms. These tiny, tangy and tart late fall berries add a lovely and delicious flavor component to bring a [...]

By |2018-08-31T18:16:05-07:00December 14th, 2014|Fruits and Vegetables, Recipes|0 Comments

Pumpkins and Pumpkin Seeds – October’s Seasonal Super Foods

Abundant October Pumpkins Fall is all about the color and as the leaves turn to brilliant hues of yellow, orange and red, the pumpkins glow their own brilliant orange across their dry and yellowed fields. That brilliant orange is not just great to look at. It's also a sign of the rich goodness of pumpkin in the diet. You've probably noticed that the other place that brilliant orange [...]

By |2018-08-31T18:16:06-07:00October 20th, 2014|Fruits and Vegetables|0 Comments

The Amazing Broccoli Connection: Why You Want to Eat More Cruciferous Vegetables

Our Gut and Skin - Protecting us Inside and Out Seems lately we've been hearing a lot - (and it's a good thing, I'm not complaining!) about our skin. About the skin being the largest organ of our bodies, and how what we put on our skin winds up in our bloodstream in very short order... This is a big reason I'm a fan of an all organic all natural [...]

By |2018-08-31T18:16:07-07:00January 4th, 2014|Fruits and Vegetables|0 Comments

Free Produce Guide

As a way of saying thank you for buying "The Juice Recipe Book", I would like to offer you this FREE companion produce guide. Simply enter your email address below and we'll email you a download link:
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