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Buy nuts in bulk for daily healthful snacking and recipe ingredients. Photo courtesy The Almond Board. April is Earth Month; April 22 is Earth Day. You can make every day Earth Day and do something sustainable. Research findings show compelling reasons for shoppers to buy in bulk (from the bulk bins at the grocery…
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Choose your snacks from 25 sweet or savory mixes. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE. Sure, it’s easy to give a box of candy or cupcakes for Valentine’s Day. But for anyone who can benefit from better snacking, how about something more healthful—and fun? There are fruit gifts, of course, and delicious artisan…
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Make your daily chocolate nibble fairly-traded. Photo of Equal Exchange Minis by Elvira Kalviste. This year, we went Fair Trade for Halloween. That means that the chocolate we handed out was ethically produced. While you won’t see many articles about it, cacao is an agricultural product that uses child slave labor in the fields.…
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You’ve heard that chocolate is good for you, but those claims leave out two key points: Many of the flavanoids, the healthy antioxidants in cacao beans, are cooked out of the beans during the roasting process. Chocolate contains lots of refined sugar—milk chocolate and white chocolate have the most sugar, bittersweet chocolate (70% cacao or…
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Fruit drinks, doubly spiced. Photo courtesy Prometheus Springs. Prometheus Springs is an exciting new line of juice drinks. You might call it the hottest line around, thanks to delectable blends of fruit juice, hot spices and capsaicin, the component that gives the heat to hot chiles. As a bonus, it’s certified organic and kosher.…
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