TIP OF THE DAY: Know The Dirty Dozen & The Clean 15

This innocent-looking, low-calorie, fiber- filled vegetable is #1 on the Dirty Dozen list. Buy organic celery. Photo courtesy BaldorFoods.com. Can you name the most pesticide-laden fruits and vegetables? If not, you’re probably ingesting more pesticide residue than you’d like. The Environmental Working Group has found that people who eat five fruits and vegetables a day…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Tony Boffa’s Famous Home Made Tomato Sauce

There’s lots of tomato sauce on the shelves, but look at the ingredients panel: Most of it is chock full of sugar/HFCS and salt. Antonio Boffa emigrated from Italy after World War II, opened a restaurant in 1951 and made his sauces the old-fashioned way: with the best ingredients, bursting with flavor, without need for…
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RECIPE: Graduation Cookies

These cookies are too cool for school! Photo © Land O Lakes. Who wouldn’t want to take a bite of these diploma cookies—perfect to serve at a graduation party or to bring as a gift for the new graduate. What’s especially nifty about these cookies is that they double as fortune cookies. You can use…
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