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Pucker Up: Slow Cooker Pork and Sauerkraut

Food News, Things We Crave, Resources, Green Your Eats, and Tips, Tools & Techniques. Check out this week’s picks.

Food News

  • You avoid BPA in plastic bottles and food containers, but what about food can linings? (via Natural News)
  • No good: synthetic growth hormones in school lunches (via examiner.com)
  • 2007 Census delivers good news: farms getting smaller and greener (via Treehugger)


Things We Crave
  • In honor of Valentine’s Day, get these sweet valentines for food lovers from Etsy (via the kitchn)
  • Dying to serve bagels and lox to your kid? Now you can. With these adorable soft pretend foods from LoooLoo Textiles (via inhabitots)
  • I already have this, but everyone who comes to my house asks about it so…. There’s no better way to encourage a budding cook than to save them a spot at the counter. Expensive but worth every penny, this Learning Tower from Little Partners makes it safe and easy (via Amazon)

Resources

  • Does your budding chef go nuts for play kitchens while you can’t bear to lay out the loot for one? Get simple plans for building your own from recycled boxes. Absolute genius from fortytworoads at Etsy.

Green Your Eats

  • Need another reason to eat free-range chicken? Spend a day in a chicken’s shoes (via Planetsave)
  • Why put on-the-go snacks in plastic baggies when you can be healthier, greener, and way hipper with these reusable cloth baggies (via ohdedoh)

Tips, Tools & Techniques

  • No garden? No problem! Grow herbs indoors (even in winter) and teach your tyke where herbs come from. (via re-nest)
  • Part science project. Part fun. And a great indoor project. Learn how to make 5-minute ice cream in a bag. (I wonder if I can use agave instead of sugar…)

Green Your EatsGreen Your Eats


Want to get more veggies into your kid’s diet without resorting to hiding them? (Especially when hiding them doesn’t help them learn that veggies actually taste good!) Try using veggies like sweet potato and butternut squash, roasted and pureed to the consistency of apple butter, and made even yummier (if you like) with a touch of cinnamon, maple syrup, or even fresh grated ginger.