Recent Blog Posts
How to Make Comfort Food Healthier
A comfort food comes from a different place for every individual. The real definition is anything food that you use to feel better, but in the United States this is usually thought of as a calorie dense goodie. Sometimes it is a dessert, sometimes it is a pasta recipe. Often it is something simple, like the freshly baked chocolate chip cookies your caregivers treated you to when you had a bad day at school or felt overwhelmed by your workload. These foods are almost never healthy for you. The saturated fat and the other heavy ingredients like sugar or salt make for a fulfilling experience that isn’t usually nutritionally dense.
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Put Your Ballot Where Your Mouth Is
Wow! Just what you were looking for! Another blog about politics! We know that people are tired of talking about it, and hearing about it, and tired of reading about it. But the fact remains that even if you don’t participate in voting, there are consequences that affect you so this is just a small, tiny overview of a single facet of politics related to the things that both affect us as a spice company and you, as a consumer. Okay- it’s been a while since your civic studies class. Politics seems both difficult to talk about and navigate while simultaneously impossible to avoid. These policies have very real consequences on your life. You know you’re supposed to vote, but it can seem an exercise in futility when it there seems to be very little progress or action on the issues that most matter to you. We’d like to compile a little information, so you can consider the way your vote and participation in elections can shape food.
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Eating Well on a Budget
At this point, eating well on a budget might just seem like common sense stuff. One quick search on the internet will yield a thousand of the same bland results. Buying in bulk, cooking at home, and avoiding grocery shopping when you are hungry are all valid points, but despite the information, some of it seems lacking in depth. How do we do these things and how does it help?
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