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Simple meals, especially home grown, are often the most enjoyable. Pink eye purple peas fresh picked and shelled today garnished with mustard and garden onion slices and accompanied by jalapeno cornbread with corn and jalapenos fresh from the garden.
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All vegetable (except for seasonings) lunch again, all garden (except for seasonings featuring jalapeno poppers made with jalapeno peppers, cheese and bacon flavored, an old-fashioned okra/peas/bacon dish popular in the south (no slim on okra), and fresh garden corn and southern fried okra... What a lunch.

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This week I made a veggie stir-fry with rainbow carrots, bell peppers, and bok choy—all from my Misfits Market box! I also roasted some sweet potatoes and made a kale and apple salad with a lemon vinaigrette. Everything was super fresh and delicious. If you're thinking about trying it, I definitely recommend calling misfits market at their phone number - they make eating healthy so much easier.
 

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This week I made a veggie stir-fry with rainbow carrots, bell peppers, and bok choy—all from my Misfits Market box! I also roasted some sweet potatoes and made a kale and apple salad with a lemon vinaigrette. Everything was super fresh and delicious. If you're thinking about trying it, I definitely recommend calling misfits market at their phone number - they make eating healthy so much easier.
Have thought about it, have to check price. However, we do have lots of Amish around us, so can get lots of veggies, and they also have a misfits table at reduced price. Your stir fry sounds good.
 

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We're also in a rural area with Amish. Lots of roadside produce most of the summer. And we also get the blemished tomatoes and peppers for cheap.

We're not worried about scars or bruises, most of this stuff gets processed in some way so it's no big deal to cut out the ugly.
 

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The older I am getting the less quick I am to disguise my rolling eyes. Few days ago, sitting at the car show, met up with a women my age, had seen her before few years back , she brings her car to show also. So we are talking, she tells me she's on a dairy free diet. I say, ok, then lactose free, she says yep. Then she goes on to say she has to make sure any pasta she eats does not have eggs in it because she is dairy free. I look at her, and say, eggs are not dairy my dear. I quickly look away, but my eyes roll, can't stop them.

Last week I am in the grocery store shopping, bump into a neighbor, she was holding some already made up meat paddies, with spices in them. I said to her, had you had them before, she said NO, I said, wonder how much salt they put in them. She says, well I don't know, but if I cook it long enough the salt will evaporate. I said, dear, salt does not evaporate. Again, look away quickly, don't roll those eyes.
 

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Like all the folks who suddenly decided they need to eat gluten free. Even though they don't have Celiac?

My mother in law used to shy away from butter and lard because fat is bad. Would go through a tub of Crisco every month though.
 

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Like all the folks who suddenly decided they need to eat gluten free. Even though they don't have Celiac?

My mother in law used to shy away from butter and lard because fat is bad. Would go through a tub of Crisco every month though.
Me personally, I read the ingredients of bread at the stores, too long of a list I do not buy it. Thank goodness I have a store near enough that supplies good bread. The other thing I have learned, about bread is True Sour dough bread does not have any yeast ingredient, so in stores that package such and I read the list I can avoid the fake. As far as butter, love the stuff. When I was overseeing group homes there was only allowed in the homes, butter and olive oil, no margarine. Cannot tell you last time I had Crisco in in my house.
 

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Oh I'm not picking on folks who do try to eat healthy, just the ones that do things because everyone else does.

Gluten is pretty harmless to most people, no need to buy the expensive Gluten free foods.

Crisco is full of unnatural stuff, butter isn't. Well real butter anyway.

Many baked goods use a chemical to keep them moist on the shelf. The same chemical is a major component of antifreeze.

So label reading isn't bad, but understanding why is important.
 

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