Tidal Creek Cooperative Food Market

Book Review by JoAnn L. Fogler
“You Are What You Eat; The Plan That Will Change Your Life” by Dr. Gillian McKeith
Dr. Gillian Mc Keith is an internationally renowned clinical nutritionist and the director of the McKeith Research Centre in London. She is hailed as, “the World’s Most Acclaimed Nutritionist,” by the Daily Mail in London, [...]

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Book Review by JoAnn L. Fogler
The New Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen
Wow! Fifteen years after the famous Moosewood Cookbook comes an updated version with pictures, new recipes and lots of variations and substitutions for contemporary lifestyles. People want to have meals that are easy to prepare, nutritious, and relatively inexpensive. The world has gotten [...]

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Plastic-Free Strawberry & Apple Fruit Leather
Yesterday, as I danced around my kitchen… I once again realized one of the many rewards of striving to reduce our families plastic footprint.  The reward, of course, is the victory of figuring out how to make something that has been so commercialized that we think that [...]

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It Starts With Me…  Co-op owner blog share
Back when my kids went to school (we’re homeschooling this year), my son always wanted me to buy him Lunchables (ummm… no way…. besides being nutritional crap… they’re way over packaged).  To give him what he wanted without giving into crap food…. I invested in a LapTop lunch** and [...]

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Vegan Love Buzz Cake
A recipe from Jennifer Andreas, Tidal Creek Cooperative Food Market
Ingredients:
3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 ½ tsp kosher salt
2 cups unbleached raw sugar
1 cups fair trade cocoa powder
8 oz fair trade brewed coffee
12 oz warm water
4 oz apple butter
10 oz safflower oil
2 tbs + 1 ½ tsp apple cider vinegar
2 [...]

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By JoAnn L. Fogler
The Starving Students’ Vegetarian Cookbook; Over 150 Recipes for Quick, Cheap, and Delicious Meals by Dede Hall
College students can eat healthy meals, according to Dede Hall.  Hall’s latest book, The Starving Students Vegetarian Cookbook is a great twist on its predecessor, The Starving Students Cookbook which contained meat dishes. This rendition is [...]

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by JoAnn Fogler
12 Best Foods Cookbook; Over 200 Delicious Recipes Featuring the 12 Healthiest Foods by Dana Jacobi
Dana Jacobi has written five cookbooks, contributed to others, and written for many publications such as Food and Wine, Cooking Light, and the New York Times.  Her work has won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award and many other [...]

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Book Review by JoAnn L. Fogler

The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones; A Holistic Approach, by Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D.
Dr. Colbin is a pioneer nutritionist who has written many books on healthy eating, including The Book of Whole Meals, The Natural Gourmet, and Food and Healing.  Her latest book, The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones [...]

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Book Review by JoAnn L. Fogler
“Feeding the Whole Family; Recipes for Babies, Young Children, and Their Parents” by Cynthia Lair
This is the third edition of Cynthia Lair’s, Feeding the Whole Family and its focus is on whole foods. Lair offers many good recipes in this book that are adaptable for babies and young children. Some [...]

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Starting with the basics: whole grains
By Kirsten Lovan
The basics are the place to start when trying to incorporate whole foods into the diet.  Heidi Swanson has a beautiful cookbook, packed with useful information about whole foods, titled Super Natural Cooking. You may also want to check out her website.
I have found that an easy way [...]

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