Posts under ‘Do unto others’

I stopped at Whole Foods in Oakland this evening just to see how much cash I could drop at one time in one place (KIDDING WHOLE FOODS HA HA HA ALSO YOU CAN BE MY SPONSOR NOW!!!), and noticed at the checkout counter that they are current funneling money like a laundering operation to Oakland [...]

On Saturday night, at BlogHer Food, Gayle Keck of Been There Ate That and I started talking about bacon. Fact is, and I’m not giving anything away here, since Gayle already talked about this on her blog, cheap bacon just isn’t as good as expensive bacon. She warned me about this, but since I hadn’t [...]

Last week’s Hunger Challenge wrapped on Saturday, but I’m still working on recipes that combine the ingredients that I was able to purchase on my $28 budget. I’ll be rolling those out this week for your reading (and eating-on-a-budget) pleasure. I’m also still working on a post that lays out an entire menu for the [...]

On Sunday morning, I stopped at Heinold’s to drop off my purse with a couple of friends who were already set up with their bloody marys and plates of food from the Jack London Square Farmer’s Market. “I’m going to try to get all my shopping done for the week at the farmer’s market for [...]

This is what I’ve already learned this week: $7 makes a tremendous difference when shopping for a week’s worth of food. Last year’s Hunger Challenge allowed each of the participants to shop for $21 of food for the week. I managed to clock in at just under $20 for the week, but it was one [...]

This post originally appeared on BlogHer, but I thought this was important enough that I wanted to share it with my Inadvertent readers, as well. I remember a few things about school lunches growing up. I remember that, most of the time, I brought lunch from home rather than eating lunch at school. I remember [...]

If you’re an organized person, you planned your Fourth of July menu weeks ago. You have a little menu card, a shopping list. Actually, you probably already shopped. But if you’re the rest of us, there’s still time to prepare properly for the Fourth of July. And by properly, I mean, there’s time to declare [...]

I’ve spent a lot of time during the past few years educating myself on the food I eat, and have worked hard to make ever-better, ever-wiser choices. I’m by no means vegetarian, but I eat a lot less meat than I used to. I try to shop for locally-produced and -grown goods…most of the time. [...]

For a happy-go-lucky girl, I do spend a fair amount of time imagining disaster. If the Big One hits while I’m sleeping, no books or heavy decorative items will fall on me—I already thought about that and hung nothing over my bed when I moved here. I still vary my regular route from time to [...]

Back in September, during the Hunger Challenge, Tyson Foods asked readers to post comments on a blog post, which in turn triggered a delivery of thousands of pounds of food to the San Francisco Food Bank. It was a powerful grassroots effort that required so little on the part of each participant. A comment? That’s [...]