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Real Food Rehab: Homemade Tzatziki

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Recipes, Living Well, Recipes, Greek Islands, Real Food, Dips, Cheech and Chong, Tzatziki, Living News
Dana Joy Altman

I never wanted for lack of anything in Greece. The daily repetition of meals suited me just fine. The food was as local, fresh and simple as one could ask for.

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Real Food Rehab: Rules For Living Well

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Living Well, Finding Your Own North Star, Individualism, Authenticity, Self-Expression, Rules for Living, Martha Beck, Real Food, Beauty, Quality, Texting, The Balanced Life, Living News
Dana Joy Altman

I do believe in knowing what you value most and using that as a rudder to guide your life. So here are some rules for living, exactly as I wrote them two years ago.

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Real Food Rehab: 2 Simple Steps To Healthy & Delicious Meals

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Stock Your Pantry, Family Meals, Quick Meals, Health, Cooking, Easy Recipes, Real Food, Grocery Shopping, Pantry, Menu Planning, Food, Living News
Dana Joy Altman

If you stock your pantry with high-quality basics and foods you love, you won't overspend on last-minute grocery store runs. You'll eat healthier and always be able to throw together a satisfying meal.

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Slow Food Steers Aspiring Mechanic from Cars to Cooking

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Jenny Kessler, Harvest Time, Slow Food NYC, Automotive High School, Time for Lunch, Eat-In, Slow Food Usa, Real Food, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Cars and fast food are partners in crime when it comes to undermining America's health. But our landscape is changing; Automotive High School in Brooklyn is now part of Slow Food NYC's Harvest Time program.

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Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Fat, Weight Loss, Sugar, Pesticides, Fast Food, American Diet, Prevention-Magazine, Steroids, Weight Loss Tips, Herbicides, Fast Food Industry, Weight, 1950s, Papa-Johnss-Pizza, Salt, Wendy's, McDonald's, Marketing, Processed Food, Losing Weight, Food Marketing, 1950s-Housewife, Canned Foods, Growth Hormones, Weight Gain, Blackberry Addiction, Pollan Food, Food Labels, Weight Control, Michael Pollan, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Health, Real Food, Toxic Waste, Consumer Protection, Heart Attack, Living News
Christina Pirello

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

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Seeing Through the Food Industry's "Personal Responsibility" Smoke Screen

Rob Smart | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Consumer Food Expenditures, Retail, Conventional Food, Personal Responsibility, Family, Cooking, Food, Food Retail, Community, Home Cooking, Business, Innovation, Food Preparation, Triple Bottom Line, Pro Food, Eating, Industrial Food, Sustainable, Supermarkets, Food Marketing, Local, Consumers, Real Food, Grocery Prices, Walmart, Unhealthy Food, Food Politics, Cheap Groceries, Healthy Food, Healthy Eating, Cargill, General Mills, Food Policy, Family-Meal-Time, Healthy Eating Habits, Grocery Shopping, Family Meals, Unhealthy Eating, Local Food, The-Food-Revolution, Grocery Stores, Green News
Rob Smart

"Personal responsibility" is used as a smoke screen to cover the tracks of industrial food, tracks that run roughshod over the mirage of choice and personal responsibility.

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Real Food Rehab: The Recession Issue

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Canning, Potlucks, Real Food, Organic, Frugality, Recession, Farmers Markets, The Giving Life, Recession Food Shopping, Happiness, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News
Dana Joy Altman

I have never been so poor in my life. But despite how it appears on paper, there's been an upside to all this. It's easy to focus on what you don't have, harder to celebrate what you do. That, to me, is paramount to happiness.

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Real Food Rehab: Cooking and Eating With the Seasons

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 05.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Farmer's Markets, Healthy Eating, Real Food, Cooking, Vegetables, Seasonal Food, Food Blogs, Eating Matters, Food, Chicago News
Dana Joy Altman

Each fruit or vegetable has its own season and taking advantage of locally grown foods at their peak of flavor is, dare I say, the most life-giving gift you can give yourself.

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Real Food Rehab: Creating Your Own Authentic Kitchen

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 05.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Thrift Stores, Authenticity, Antiques, Real Food, Kitchen, Kitchen Wares, Authentic Kitchens, Kitchen Design, Food, Housewares, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News
Dana Joy Altman

Think about your kitchen and eating areas as a blank canvas for your unique form of perfect self-expression. Create it to be a reflection of who you are or want to be.

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Real Food Rehab: Ideas for Creating a Real Food Fridge and Larder

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 10.04.2009 | Style

Read More: Processed Food, Larder, Kitchen, Food, Food-Staples, Cheese, Real Food, Foodstuffs, Olive Oil, Purge, Style News
Dana Joy Altman

If you have some of these basics in your larder, then at the very least you know you can have a good nosh or throw together a quick meal; you know your satisfaction's guaranteed.

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Real Food Rehab: Because Beautiful Food Is Your Birthright

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 04.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Creativity, Healthy Eating, Processed Food, Farmer's Markets, Diet-Fads, Community, Diet, Chicago Farmer's Markets, Joy, Fruits, Eating Matters, Organic Food, Local Food, Health, Nutrition, Food, Eating Well, Real Food, Chicago News
Dana Joy Altman

Eating well is a life skill. It's about learning to trust ourselves, getting back in touch with our instincts and returning to those things that nourish us and give us pleasure. Remember pleasure?

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The Big Risk of Insanely Small Nanoparticles in Our Food

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Packaging, Nanofood, Nanotechnology, Health, Friends of the Earth, Food Safety, Real Food, Food Additives, Processed Foods, Nanomaterials, Usda, Fda, Green News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

For now, until the FDA and the USDA get their acts together, when it comes to food and our health, it seems that we, the people, are once more on our own.

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