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Go deeper with these carefully curated collections of fruit and veggie stories.

Quick, Easy & Healthy Dinner Idea

Have you ever had one of those evenings where you haven’t taken anything out for dinner, it’s too late to defrost anything and you’d really r…
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Grilled Corn—The Taste of Summer

Here’s the great thing about summer—okay, one of the many great things. It’s prime time for good-for-you fresh summer produce. You know … watermelon, p…
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MyPlate Celebrates One Year

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since we threw away the measuring cups and stopped struggling to figure out if we were really getting our req…
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Top 10 Ways to Enjoy Shallots

You can use shallots in any recipe calling for onions. But shallots are milder … so feel free to use a little more! Avocado Garden Salad This beautiful sala…
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Not Your Grandmother’s Watercress!

My oldest memory of watercress involves my grandmother eating a sandwich made up of white bread, butter and watercress. Needless to say, as a young child I nev…
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Don’t Forget Sun Safety This Summer

This week’s blog is off my usual topic of nutrition and exercise, but it’s definitely something we, as Moms, should be aware of with the summer sea…
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Space-Age Fruits & Veggies?

More and more, we’re seeing freeze-dried fruit and vegetables on supermarket shelves. In the past, freeze-dried food was reserved for NASA aficionados (remem…
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Asparagus in Spring

Spring brings baseball games, graduation parties, and Memorial Day cookouts. It also brings one of the first spring vegetables: asparagus. One of my favorite v…
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