Tis the season for holiday gatherings! This month begins the start of many different holidays; all of which can bring the need for parties and food. The biggest question we always ask, “How do you stay healthy through the holidays?” Here are a few tips you can remember when celebrating this season.
Tree nut allergies are one of the more common food allergies among both adults and children. People with peanut or tree nut allergies should avoid the following:
Every holiday season we seem to have an abundance of food leftovers. Often these food leftovers are thrown out or left to spoil, which contributes to the nearly 38 million tons of wasted food in the United States.The resulting substance is called compost. If we composted many of the things we throw away, such as kitchen scraps, grass clippings, leaves, and other landscape debris, we could divert 20 to 30 percent of the trash currently going into landfills. By composting these materials, we can reduce the amount of waste we generate and produce organic matter and nutrients for our garden, landscape and yard.
Every garden benefits from the addition of compost because it supplies many of the nutrients plants need. Composting also:
To learn more about how to compost and help reduce wasted food, check out the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension’s Easy Gardening Series.
Source: Joseph Masabni, Assistant Professor and Extension Horticulturist, and Patrick Lillard, Extension Assistant, Easy Gardening – Composting.
If you are not familiar with quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah), it might seem hard to cook. It’s actually very similar to making rice! Quinoa is a great substitute for rice or pasta if you can’t have gluten. Learn how to serve this grain with the following easy steps:
When you need to have some fresh lemon juice, you squeeze and squeeze the lemon, but still leave juice behind. Find out how to get the squeeze on lemons to get as much juice as you can from one lemon.
