Food waste in America: 12 ways to help reduce it
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Food waste / Nick Saltmarsh via Flickr The world wastes about 1.4 billion tons of food every year, but estimates of food waste can vary wildly. According…
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Inconvenient convenience food, or, Tuna doesn’t need help
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Dressing up a basic white sauce for unlimited meal ideas
One of the best ways to go green is to cook at home. You’ll save money and not generate as much trash as eating out or fixing prepared foods. Does that seem scary? You can have a mouth-watering supper on the table in half an hour.
Super-easy, nutritious pancakes from scratch
Supermarkets are full of conveniences that, on further inspection, don’t offer much convenience. And there’s a cost to convenience, whether real or imagined convenience. Here’s how you can…
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