Articles by Louise Ross
As a former chef cum recession-strategy food blogger, Louise Ross shares tips on grocery shopping responsibly and managing your food applying her no-waste, no-fuss approach to cooking for health and wellness. She blogs at Market to Mouth and you can follow her on Twitter or Facebook.
Going without meat on Mondays isn’t a round-about way of promoting a vegetarian diet. Rather, it’s a campaign designed to encourage meat-eaters to be more aware of their health, for instance, less saturated fat is better for one’s heart. It’s also a means of alerting meat-eaters to the impact factory-farming animals for human consumption has on the environment and ultimately the planet.
It was almost a year ago that I wrote a post titled Re-Use Your Plastic Bags. Around that time, as a way to gather data for a book proposal based on my blog Market to Mouth, I was sharing my expertise as a grocery shopping-cum-cooking consultant. One of glaring things I noticed shopping with people is the consistent and unnecessary over-use of plastic bags at the grocery store.
Shopping online for organic produce (in fact, all your food) is not a unique concept these days. Google it and see for yourself. However, I’m a visual and tactile person, which means I prefer to see and touch, sometimes even smell, vegetables and fruit before buying them. Nevertheless, this past week I tried something different: rather than buy my produce at the grocery store, I ordered it online.
Despite what I know and despite what I’ve written on the topic of shopping, cooking and eating by the seasons, I chose the out-of-season berry fruit flan. Here’s why…
Louise Ross offers a practical, easy tool to use when grocery shopping to help you make healthful, whole food choices on a budget.
The return of warmer days with more sunlight hours means the return of life in the plant world. We’re not quite there yet, but spring is in the air. It’s evidenced in the natural world by the appearance of crocus, new growth on trees, and in the grocery store by the return of delicate, leafy greens.
Do I really feel as though I can trust what I’ve purchased to be exactly as its labeled? No, I don’t, but I do feel more confident about “Certified Humane” than the loosely defined “organic” and “natural” meat and dairy that I was purchasing because I’ve done my research.
I wish I could just buy my food at the grocery store and feel confident about what I’m buying, but alas, that’s not the case.
Louise Ross offers advice on finding ethically-raised, traditionally farmed meat and offers a tasty recipe for Beef Rib Stew.
