Asian Straw Broom: Excellent Cleaning Tool

It never ceases to amaze me how stubborn and stuck in my American (U.S.) ways I can be.  Have you seen the guest post that wrote for Ruth’s Real Food about me learning to come around to my hubby’s Filipino culture while seeking out real food solutions?  Well, apparently I still have quite [...]

Freaky Friday 12/14/2012

It’s that time of the year when everyone is starting to catch up with the reality that the warm weather is all behind us.  The Indian summer has come and gone and now we need to hunker down and prepare for cold and flu season.  Last week we had several [...]

Freaky Friday 11/9/2012

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EPIGENETICS- BEYOND HEREDITY

This post by Jill @Real Food Forager is extremely fascinating regarding the role [...]

Freaky Friday 10/26/2012

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Every week I have a hard time choosing the featured posts.  There are so many that I choose and then I have to whittle them down one by one.  If you are wondering how I choose, it usually goes by either the most unique (posts in which [...]

Estrogenic Foods and Their Effect on My Body

This post is NOT meant to be a research piece on soy but a personal testimony as to the effects of soy on my body.  We’ve already been there, done that with a post on why we don’t recommend soy .  And a bazillion of other real food bloggers have done [...]

10 Reasons Why I’m Not Going to Stop Eating My Arsenic-Laced Rice

I know you’ve seen it . . . all those headlines even in the main stream media about how RICE is so bad for you NOW because they just NOW found out that it supposedly has high levels of arsenic in it.

Makes me want to say — OMG!  Not because I am afraid [...]

Stealing and Contaminating Water Around the World (pt 4 in the water series)

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Few things aggravate me more than bullies and people who take advantage of the disadvantaged.  Part 4 of our water series was going to be more of a rant for this reason (SEE part 1, part 2 and part 3).  However, I realize that very few people may [...]

Is Bottled Water Good For You? pt 3

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Most of us can agree that the plastic use in bottled water is problematic just for the environmental waste alone.  But the problems are not limited to the waste that it creates in landfills.  There are actual toxins in the plastic itself that leach into the water.  For [...]

September Promotion for Aquasana Water Filtration

Hi Real Food Freaks,

Some of you mentioned that you are looking into Aquasana Water Filtration Systems.  If you have finished your research and are leaning in this direction, you may want to know that there is a promotion through September 28th on Whole House Systems (30% off)  as well as other promos on countertop [...]

Freaky Friday 9/14/2012

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To view past Freaky Friday’s and other fantastic posts from over several months, be sure to check out all the great posts here. But to revisit what you may have missed last week check out this link.  There were so many good one last week.  I wish I [...]

What’s in My Tap Water? (pt 2 in our water series)

Post links to: Wednesday Fresh Foods, Simple Lives, Pennywise Platter, Keep It Real, Fresh Bites, Fill Those Jars,

Disclaimer: I have posted an Aquasana link in this post that is an affiliate link.  I use them and I endorse them.  If you feel so inclined to purchase from Aquasana and you would like to [...]

Water: My Fear (and a bit of anger) pt 1

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Yes, I am afraid of water.  This is not because of some traumatic event in my childhood.  No this is a recent fear that has developed (one more thine to call me a freak about). Prior to my real food days I used to drink the standard 8 glasses [...]