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2 Easy Ways to Cook a Whole Pumpkin, Butternut, Kabocha or Other Winter Squash from Scratch
If slicing a pumpkin or hard winter squash is difficult for you, try one of these easy methods for cooking a hard-shelled pumpkin or winter squash without cutting
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Savory Lentils With Heirloom Tomatoes and Veggies
A 30-minute, low-fat, fabulously succulent, one-dish meal. This hearty lentil and heirloom tomatoes dish happened almost by accident. Here's the story.
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency--bright, colorful, feel-good
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency shines in hot, bright color, humanity and for this American, beguilingly new scenery and customs. Recommended for anyone yearning for something new on the TV scene.
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This inexpensive chopper-dough scraper is one of my indispensable kitchen tools
Save time and food! If you cook with fresh vegetables and fruits, use a stainless steel chopper-dough scraper to grab every last bit of your chopped, diced and minced goodies, including their juices.
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How a Seed Grows--Learning to garden
Help a child discover the magic of growing seeds with this step-by-step tutorial in pictures
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Halloween eco-friendly trick or treat bags--Fun way to raise your child's awareness about plastic pollution
What better way than eco-friendly trick or treat bags to help our children understand that a few simple changes now can help us preserve a comfortable lifestyle for their future?
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The Beatles Love Me Do
Love them we did. The Beatles rocked our world, changed the way we dressed, raised our consciousness, and taught us new ways to look at the world, but their early songs just made us happy.
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Baking fun: Tiny whole wheat animal cookies with yogurt icing
Whole wheat flour in the cookies and yogurt in the icing make these animal cookies almost as healthy as they are good to eat and fun to make with the little ones in your life
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The sleek Polder digital scale mixes style, beauty and functionality
Easily switch from grams to ounces and back again with this digital scale. No more converting international recipes! Weigh the ingredients instead!
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Could you give up your shampoo and conditioner?
Despite initial misgivings, I am amazed at the simplicity of the baking soda/apple cider vinegar hair care method. My hair has never looked better. Perhaps this method will work for you too.
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How to throw together a gourmet picnic in minutes
Impromptu picnics can be yours in 15, 20 or 30 minutes if you stock your refrigerator and pantry with foods you love. Check out these ideas, take a look at the shopping list, and add your own faves.
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Fido and LeParfait Jars: The Best Bulk Food Storage Solution
Fido and LeParfait jars are the best solutions I've found for keeping my bulk foods, baked goods and even some of my produce fresh longer. This helps us save on our grocery bills!
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Whole wheat toasted coconut snickerdoodles
Toasting the coconut gives these crispy-on-the-outside, tender-on-the-inside coconut snickerdoodles that extra scrumptious boost that makes everyone go, "Wow! These are amazing!"
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Dr. Bronner's Magic All-in-One Coconut Oil, the thrifty woman's beauty secret
Coconut oil is the eco-girl's socially responsible, dream beauty treatment, and at a fraction of the cost of cosmetic-counter creams and lotions
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Better than fast-food, A bright, crunchy salad for dinner
Within ten minutes after you walk in the door tonight, you can have a fresh, gorgeous salad on your table for a light summer meal.
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Whole wheat chocolate chip banana bread
How did it take me this long to think of adding chocolate chips to my favorite whole wheat banana bread recipe? Total yum.
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Fluffy, cheesy, whole wheat biscuits
Whole wheat makes them healthier, cheese makes them extra tasty, and I've finally learned how to make whole wheat biscuits lighter and fluffier
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Cheap chic: How to brighten a drab hallway in 30 minutes
Welcome home! How I brightened a dull entry in under 30 minutes with less than $40, a beautiful piece of handmade paper, and a few simple changes so that every time we open the door, we feel welcome.
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The Preacher's Wife, a Christmas movie review
Whether it's the music, which soars, the sad/funny story, hunky Denzel Washington taking prat falls, the rocking feel-good finale, or all of the above, The Preacher's Wife is my favorite Christmas movie by far
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Pommes de terre with kale and yams
Yukon gold or red potatoes (pommes de terre), yams, krinkly kale, and one not-so-secret ingredient set your taste buds singing in this sure-to-please healthier holiday side dish or weeknight main
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The Snowy Day and other favorite picture books by Ezra Jack Keats
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats is as fun to read to my grandchildren as it was to their moms. We can feel the cold ground when we make snow angels with Peter, taste snow flakes on our tongues.
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Creamy Cheesy Potato Rutabaga Soup
On a chill day, nothing warms the body and the heart like a warm bowl of creamy potato soup. Rutabegas and cheese add color and extra vitamins during cold winter months when we need them most.
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Buttery whole wheat scones with currants
If you have a food processor, you can pop these buttery whole wheat scones with currants into the oven in just ten minutes
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Three Easy Ways to Clean Vinyl Mini Blinds
Living on a busy street with windows wide open, I had to find an easier way to clean my white mini blinds. I found not one but three, and each has its uses. Check them out.
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Healthy (homemade) Bread in Five Minutes a Day
Even the busiest families can enjoy fresh-baked, healthy, whole grain bread with just 5-minutes prep time a day
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Review: The Breville stick blender, one of my most-used kitchen tools
Had I known how much time an immersion blender would save, I would not have waited until I was in my sixties to get one.
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Strunk and White's Elements of Style, the Best Writer's Guide
The Elements of Style is the single most important writing guide I own. Lie or lay? Farther or further? Which or that? Affect or effect? Did I use the word correctly? A quick thumb through Strunk and White, and I'm back on track.
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Review: Graco Pack 'N Play Playard with Reversible Napper and Changer
Our Graco Pack 'N Play Playard is the perfect granny nanny solution, with its changing table, musical mobile and safety features
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Silk Roads and Shadows, a riveting rainy--or sunny summer--day read
This lilting story of a warrior princess and the ghost army she battles just may capture your mind and heart and never let it go. It did mine. To show just how big a hot, summer--or rainy day--companion Silk Roads and Shadows ...
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Goldie Blox Creative Construction Toys for Girls
Goldie Blox are so hot, in fact, that they were featured in a $4 million 30-second Superbowl ad last winter. Amazon.com image Will the little girl in your life be the first to own this set? Are you like me? Every time I go into a toy store with my...
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How to stay warm without sending your heating bill through the roof
Ten small things you can do to make a BIG difference in your heating bill this year.
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Organic and Fair Trade Halloween Candy
This Halloween it's easier than ever to give organic, GMO-free and Fair Trade treats to the little ghosts and goblins in your neighborhood
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Growing up slow in rural America in the 1950s and 60s--A good start on life
After World War II, and before 9/11, many of us growing up in rural areas of the United States enjoyed a time of peace and comfort, if not prosperity, that shaped our values and lives forever
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Make Greek fat free yogurt in 4 easy steps
Homemade Greek yogurt is amazingly easy and takes only a few minutes of your time. Learn how here.
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Stretch Your Organic Food Budget with Leftovers So Good They Taste Like First Time
Save money with these 12 tips that help you turn leftovers into brand new dishes so good everyone forgets they started with food you rescued from the fridge
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What is Fair Trade and why should we care?
If you buy organic foods, coffees and chocolates, you've probably seen the Fair Trade logo. Buying Fair Trade Certified products makes all our lives better. Here's how.
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Wilton cookie pans make the fastest, easiest holiday sugar cookies ever
Make cut-out cookies in a fraction of the time with cookie mold pans. No cutting, no careful lifting. Just fill and press for perfect, beautiful, crispy-on-the-outside cookies.
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Fantastically Good Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies
Who knew whole wheat could taste so good? These are my family's all-time favorite sugar cookies, and they are especially fun and easy for the little ones to make when we use our cookie mold pans.
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The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted
A Republican insider's insider, author Mike Lofgren says the GOP is grand no longer and the Party of the People isn't doing so much for us either
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Lavendula and the Purple Shoes: A Halloween fable
Lavendula and the Purple Shoes is a Halloween bedtime story sure to leave smiles on the faces of all the little ghosts and goblins in your neighborhood, along with a little witchy info for the curious
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Why I love my Mint Robotic Floor Cleaner
What a time-saver! Twenty-one ways the Mint Robotic Floor Cleaner works for me, including that it's cleaning my floors as I type this.
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Cabrillo Point Lighthouse
Take this pictorial tour of Cabrillo Point Lighthouse on the fabulous Mendocino Coast, charming and beautifully restored, just like its lovely caretaker's cottage
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What is Earth Day for Kids?
Our kids know they don't have any time to lose when it comes to fighting climate change. Many are taking the planet and their future into their own hands. For them, every day is Earth Day.
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Few things bring as much pleasure as re-reading a favorite book surrounded by the scents, sounds and colors of a favorite garden. Alice Walker's book, In Search of Our Mother's Gardens,
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Where to Find Organic & Heirloom Seeds
Finding GMO-free, organic and heirloom seeds isn't always easy. Here, a list of the best organic and heirloom seed purveyors, along with some of my favorite garden varieties.
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Hearty Kale, Cabbage & Potato Soup Recipe
On a cold blustery day, this pot of winter vegetables with kale, cabbage and potatoes warms the kitchen, spreads delicious aromas throughout the house and nourishes the body deliciously
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Easy veggie soup stock from scratch
Save money, save time and make your own nutrient-rich vegetable soup stock from scratch the easy way
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Six 5-Minute Recipes for the Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker
In our house, nothin' says "love" like ice cream. If that's true for you and your sweetheart or family, you'll find these quick, easy recipes as tasty as we do.
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Super quick potato salad for two
Forget the deli. You can make wholesome, homemade potato salad for two and be on your way to your picnic in less than 20 minutes.
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Ten ways to green your picnic
Looking for ways to make your summer outings more eco-friendly this year? You've come to the right place.
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What are sustainable communities?
Want to live more sustainably? Co-housing, ecovillages, and transitional towns are modern-day examples of communities built by people with the common goal of developing an eco-friendly lifestyle.
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Top 12 tips for going green
Go green the easy way with these twelve simple ways to live a little more sustainably.
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Kick your paper towel habit!
Welcome! By the time you reach the end of this page, you will have a four-step plan to kick your paper towel habit for good.
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Grasscycling--Easy way to a healthier, greener lawn
Grasscycling means recycling your grass clippings right into your lawn. It is an increasingly popular method of lawn care that will keep your lawn looking its best at a fraction of the cost and time you usually spend during the mowing season. How...
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What's for dinner? The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Omnivore's Dilemma reads like a novel, and like any good novel raised the hairs on the back of my neck, warmed the cockles of my heart and kept me thinking and talking about it for months.
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Ten minute meditation
Calm your body, calm your mind in just ten minutes with this easy meditation
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Lester R. Brown, a hero of our time, and a man with a plan
Renowned economist Lester R. Brown is a man with a plan and a doable budget to solve many of the world's major problems: Hunger, shelter, preventable disease, global warming, medical care for all
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Find the perfect quiche pan for the foodie in your life
If you're looking for a gift for the foodies in your life, you can't go wrong with a beautiful porcelain quiche pan. I know I'd be thrilled to receive any of these I don't already own.
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Greening the desert
"You can fix all the world's problems with a garden," says Geoff Lawton, who founded the concept of permaculture back in the 1970s with two other men, and I'm pretty sure he's right.
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Cohousing--The neighborly, sustainable lifestyle
Living in a cohousing community is a little like living in a small town, the kind of town where everyone knows everyone else and is ready to drop everything and lend a helping hand whenever it is needed. Whether it is a block of inner city condos,...
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Why buy organic cotton
Shifting to organic cotton is one of the easiest ways to go green and the payoff in our personal lives, the environment, and especially the farmers who grow cotton is enormous