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I recall how my mom would pack my brown-bag lunch for me when I was in elementary school. Somehow, by lunch time, any nectarine or peach that she had included in my smashed bag looked liked it had been used as a baseball. I was rough on clothes too.
Not so [...]

Most recipes that I see on the web call for a stainless steel bowl to be used for heating up or mixing ingredients. An example would be this recipe for Chocolate-Peanut Butter Terrine with Sugared Peanuts. Sounds pretty good, especially for all of you chocolate lovers out there. However, it seems like [...]

If I owned a SIGG water bottle, I don’t think that I would throw it out or send it back. (By the way, that’s on your dime). Really, it seems as though BPA is everywhere. Do you have any cans in your pantry? Guess what. The lining inside the can [...]

The percentage
of
Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get
this…)
The percentage
of
North America that is wilderness: 38%
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Wow, this article from the Pasadena Star News made me think of all of those plastic canteens that we used in the army on various “camping trips”. I wonder what else besides BPA leaked from those.
Question: I have recently been told that water bottles and other types of plastic containers release toxic [...]

In the
1400’s a
law was set forth in England that a man was allowed
to
beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb.
Hence we have ‘the rule
of thumb’

It appears that the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is going after a company called Eco Canteen because of their marketing campaign, which points out the benefits of stainless steel containers over plastic ones. Nothing new here. So, why does the IBWA care so much about a few commercials. Why are they [...]

According to a study done at Peperdine University, participants drank up to 24% more water with a reusable water bottle than a plastic, disposable type. Since most Americans are running around in a dehydrated state anyway, why not use a reusable water bottle and drink more water without even thinking about it. [...]

Just in time for the back-to-school season, www.HealthyKitchenware.com has the solution to your kids’ brown bagging needs with their eco-friendly, practical, reusable, dishwasher safe, stainless steel lunchbox containers that make it easy to pack a nutritious, waste-free meal. (That’s unless you want to send them to the school cafeteria for their daily dose of mystery [...]

Ever thought about making your own baby formula?
Here is a recipe from the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Milk Based Formula-Makes 36 Ounces
• 2 cups whole milk, preferably unprocessed milk from pasture-fed cows
• 1/4 cup homemade liquid whey (See recipe for whey, below)
• 4 tablespoons lactose*
• 1 teaspoon bifidobacterium infntis**
• 2 or more tablespoons good [...]