Cooking advice

Buy Organic Foods : There are 12 foods where buying organic makes even more sense than normal.
According to the EWG (Environmental Working Group) the 12 most contaminated foods are:
  • apples
  • bell peppers
  • celery
  • cherries
  • imported grapes
  • nectarines
  • peaches
  • pears
  • potatoes
  • red raspberries
  • spinach
  • strawberries
All tested positive for pesticide residue – even after having been washed! Sweet bell peppers were the vegetable with the most pesticides overall, with 39 pesticides detected on a single sample. Conversely, if you're going to buy conventional, peas, broccoli, onions, pineapples, mangoes, bananas, kiwi and papaya had the lowest occurrence of pesticide residue.


Buy Local Food : Begin by taking baby steps, such as committing to spend £10 pounds a week on locally grown foods.


Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.












Marinated Shrimp Recipe
Marinated Shrimp Category Main Meal Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

1 1/2 lb Medium shrimp, cleaned and

-deveined, or 6 Boneless chicken breasts

1 tb Olive oil

5 Garlic cloves, crushed

1 Orange zest

1 c Orange juice

1 bn Fresh rosemary

Freshly ground pepper Combine olive oil, garlic, orange zest and juice, rosemary and pepper to taste. Add shrimp and cover with marinade. Refrigerate 1 hour. Grill shrimp over low coalsor under broiler 4" from source of heat, until golden, 4-5 minutes, turning once. Each serving shrimp contains about: 162 calories; 210 milligrams sodium; 188 milligrams cholesterol; 5 grams fat, 27% calories from fat. Each serving chicken contains about: 210 calories; 111 milligrams sodium; 59 milligrams cholesterol; 7 grams fat, 30% calories from fat.

 
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