With Halloween right around the corner, treats and candy are everywhere! Trick-or-treating, Halloween parties and even bowls of candy for customers while shopping leads to an excess of candy in tummies and drawers at home. Try these tips to manage the treats. Fill those tummies before Trick-Or-Treating!
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There are so many reasons to plant a garden. There’s nothing like gardening in your backyard or even in your kids’ school, to foster teamwork and bring people together. Plus, it should come as no surprise that vegetable gardening can lead to healthy eating habits–store-bought veggies are
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With all the joy and family time approaching during holidays comes a lot of food. Pretty much any time with holidays brings a lot of food. It takes a lot of discipline to keep from overeating when we’re surrounded by food for days at at time–in the
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Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency — along with many private-sector and food-bank partners — announced the first-ever national target for food waste. “[We’re] basically challenging the country to reduce food waste by 50 percent by the year 2030,” Agriculture Secretary
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Not sure what I dread more when a new school year comes around: homework or packing lunches. Both take up time I don’t have, and neither seem to do much good. For the lunches, though, luckily my job requires that I think about food all day (I
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