TIP OF THE DAY: Corn With Lime Juice ~ Hold The Butter

With the season’s corn bounty now in stores, here’s a tip to help you enjoy corn on the cob without high-cholesterol, high-calorie butter or hypertension-generating salt. We’re not being sacrilegious. We’re just offering you a delightful alternative: chili-lime corn on the cob. It’s how corn is served south of the border. Simply dip a wedge…
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PRODUCT: Sweet Red Corn

Sweet red corn. Photo courtesy ColorfulHarvest.com.   Corn has been cultivated for 5600 years or longer. Scientists believe it originated in Central America. Corn grows in various colors: the ubiquitous yellow and white varieties, as well as red, white, purple, bicolor and tricolor. The latter colors are mostly grown as decorative corn (our mom always…
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PRODUCT: Grab & Go Healthy Vegetable Snacks

Make ‘em or buy ‘em. Photo courtesy MannPacking.com.   Like many people we know, we’re a bad-choice snacker. When we’re out of the house, we buy cookies, muffins, pizza, candy—high-calorie empty carbs. During periods of focus, we buy bags of baby carrots and throw them into our backpack along with a water bottle. But we…
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TIP OF THE DAY: 6 Reasons To Go Local (Become A Locavore)

With the bounty of summer produce, there’s no better time to become a locavore. If you don’t like the word “locavore,” you can just “go local.” The “go local” trend has been growing over the past five years. The definition: seeking food produced under 100 miles from where you live. There are good reasons to…
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RECIPE: Red, White & Blue Potato Salad

Potato salad is almost imperative at a Memorial Day or Independence Day celebration. With this recipe from Frieda’s Produce, you can make yours red, white and blue. If you can, prepare the potato salad a day in advance, the flavors will have more time to blend.     RECIPE: POTATO SALAD FOR MEMORIAL DAY &…
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