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[21 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Loving Chocolate, But Not The Headaches

Dark, decadent, smooth and creamy, flat almost bitter to sweet and luxuriant, that is chocolate.  Chocolate derived from the Aztec chocolatl (meaning food of the gods).  The cocoa comes from the cocoa tree (Threobroma Cocoa).  The original drink was a mixture of cocoa, cinamin and chili pepper.  A Jusit priest described …

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[15 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Drying to Be Chemical Free

The infusion of synthetic MSG is often placed in foods intentionally.  It is hidden in not so clear ingredients under terms like artificial flavors.  The fine powder can also be blown from one production line to the next or be incorporated due to residue from a prior product run on a line.  …

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[14 Jul 2010 | One Comment | ]
What Foods are Safe to Eat?

Many visitors to our WEB site are looking for solutions to which foods are safe from harmful chemicals.  Here is a guide that will help you.
Most dairy products except milk have synthetic carrageenan which include synthetic MSG.  A very few select dairy companies sell unadultrated products, but they are not carried …

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[14 Jul 2010 | One Comment | ]
Culvert Activity Undermines Food Chain

Spies abroad and in our home country; are we not safe anywhere.  Bombings, threats of bombings and now neighbors next door that are far from who they seem.  Spies among us, especially those apprehended are far from our biggest troubles.  Culvert activity is alive and well in many countries including the …

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[29 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
The Buzz Around The Hive

Numerous articles by environmentalists discuss the rapid decline of bees around the globe.  In our state of Missouri wild bees have declined by 50% and bee keepers are claiming rising losses of bees every year as entire hives of bees disappear.  Our goal is to help spread the word, ”bees need …

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[13 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Out Growing Chemical Dependencies

Organic is a term that has come and gone.  It use to mean natural, infer healthy and impart a knowledge you were health conscientious.  Organic is just one of many words that has been modified by the FDA beyond the standard dictionary definition to embrace chemicals most of us should not …

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[21 Dec 2009 | One Comment | ]
The Spice of Life

With the holiday season upon us, we dedided to give you a gift.  We know right now your mind is focused on ham, turkey, roast, lamb or some other holiday delight, but soon you will want to return some standards like good old fashioned chili or tacos.  We have noticed a lot …

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[13 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]

Dutchovendude.com offers some helpful conversion tables for measurements along with some good alternate foods for substitution.  Watch some of the conversions they point products known to contain MSG.  Beyond that 90% of the information provided could prove very helpful to someone cooking from scratch.  It even has a table listing …

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[7 Aug 2009 | One Comment | ]
Great Tasting Recipes

Cucumber Onion salad
So you want some great recipes and something maybe a little different.  A very good friend of ours has posted a number of tasty recipes at http://recipes.mhadesar.com.  Indeed these are wonderful, but you are going to need to watch the ingredients on a couple of recipes.  A couple …

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[23 Jun 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

With a closer look at what we eat to avoid the chemicals introduced by manufactures we have run up against some very interesting challenges.  We grow what we can and buy locally grown when possible.  We also read the labels on the foods we buy.  At first this was a …