Articles for tag: String Beans

Fruits and Vegetables Matter

There’s no time like the present to begin taking care of your health. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), along with the Produce for Better Health Foundation has declared September, 2010 as “Fruit and Veggies – More Matters Month.” The purpose is to encourage individuals to increase their fruit and vegetable consumption through eating a ...

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Dining Out on a Diet: Chinese

Chinese carryout is something everyone craves – especially on a restrictive diet. Can you stay on a diet while eating Chinese carryout or dining out at Chinese restaurant? If you were stranded in a blizzard for five days and the only one that would deliver was a Chinese carryout restaurant, would you still lose weight? ...

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Growing a Vegetable Garden in Tennessee

Tennessee’s long growing season makes it the ideal place to grow a vegetable garden. Many crops can be planted several times in one season. Using techniques, like succession planting, ensures a continuous harvest all season long. In Tennessee, cool season crops can be planted twice; one planting in late winter and another planting in early ...

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Surprising Vegetables Toddlers Will Eat

Your toddler may not be as fussy as you think. Toddlers will try different foods, including vegetables that are offered to them. Try one of these vegetables to see if your toddler will eat he. Your toddler may surprise you. Toddlers and Food Variety If you give them the same foods all the time, those ...

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Recipe for the Filipino Dish Known as Pancit Bihon

I have another pancit dish for you and this one is pancit bihon. Bihon in English means Chinese rice noodles and that is what we will be using with this dish. This dish is one of the favorites of many Filipinos from all walks of life in the Philippines. It is made for special gatherings ...

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Preserving String Beans by Drying

I love today’s growing food movement that promotes eating in season and buying locally produced food. As a member of Chestertown Maryland’s Farmer’s Market I think it is important to know where our food comes from. Farming is hard work, and is given to the whims of Mother Nature and sore backs and aching muscles. ...