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Eat Well, Spend Less: One Turkey, Four Meals

by Aimee
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Perhaps you head to your parents’ or the in-laws’ for Thanksgiving and other holiday meals, where someone else cooks and carves the turkey. Maybe you’d also like to cook a whole turkey at home (and have a few leftovers to play with), but it’s way too much meat for your little family. Here’s my proposed [...]

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Dinner

Eat Well, Spend Less: Seasonal Soups (Recipe: French Onion Soup)

by Aimee
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How is it mid October already? Oh, right, first there was our jump into October Unprocessed, then Thanksgiving, and just last weekend, Blissdom Canada in Toronto. The month tends to fly by when one is busy. After four days of conference snacking, hotel food, road food (we drove home from Toronto), and yes, missed meals, [...]

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Nourishment

Unprocessed Week Recap (Recipe: Cream of Potato-Leek Soup)

by Aimee
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To say that our week of eating only unprocessed foods went by without much ruffling of feathers would be a fair statement. If you remember, we had pledged to one week of ‘hard core’ unprocessed eating and the entire month of October as ‘soft core’, meaning we might indulge in chocolate chip cookies or hot [...]

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Dinner

Butternut Squash and Apple Soup Recipe

by Katie G
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Written by Katie of Good Life Eats I have not always been a fan of winter squash. I never cared for it as a child, but rather ate it because I was told to – so long as it was covered with enough butter and brown sugar. I was never a picky eater, but I [...]

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Dinner

Eat Well, Spend Less: Five Ways With Lentils (Curried Lentil Soup)

by Aimee
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This month for our Eat Well, Spend Less series we’re talking about emergency preparedness. We were hit fairly hard by Hurricane Irene recently and lost power for 18 hours; others fared much worse. We were scrambling a little for things like flashlight batteries and warm blankets, but all in all, we didn’t suffer much during [...]

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