By Joe R on November 6th, 2009
Have you ever been to your favorite restaurant, perhaps a coffee bistro or café, a pizza joint all loud and spicy, or maybe even a ritzy and pricy 6-month wait type of establishment, and wanted to order a salad? Of course you have. Has that salad always been fresh with nutrient rich leafy greens of all sorts still crisp to the taste, and with those tomatoes still looking taut and fresh and like they could survive a good chuck against the wall? Of course you haven’t. Salad fixings are something you usually can’t use as leftovers. When you order a salad just pray it comes something like what you have in mind. But we have all been there when we do order that fresh salad and it just does not come to the table looking the way it should.
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Keywords: fair trade, farmers' market, food, fresh produce, green, healthy living, restaurants, salads, San Francisco
By Katrina on August 27th, 2009
The small cocktail (baby) carrots you buy in small plastic bags are made using the larger crooked or deformed carrots which are put through a machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots – most people probably know this already. Read more…
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Keywords: cancer, carcinogen, carrots, chlorine, food
By Loyd on August 24th, 2009
When I was a kid growing up we had 2 choices; Brown bag or the metal Charlie Brown lunch box and the ones with the brown bags were the “poor kids”. The good ol’ Charlie brown had a flip lid with a simple metal latch and one big compartment. If that latch broke or came unlatched for some reason the entire contents of your lunch would end up lying on the ground with your yellow and white Snoopy Thermos rolling down the gutter. Read more…
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Keywords: dinner, food, fun, goodbyn, goodbyn lunchbox, kids, lunch, recycleable
