A great local offering from our friends at Sweet Feet Yoga and Robinson Family Wellness. They are hosting a beautiful Valentine’s Day event: Partner Yoga followed by CHOCOLATE EATING. Go here to view details of this unique event.
For Valentine’s week, they are offering $14 adjustments, a 66% price reduction. Click here for details.
If you register, please let the good folks there know where you heard about the event.
A tidal wave of cancer is predicted by the World Health Organization over the next 20 years, with cases expected to rise from 14 million worldwide to 24 million by 2035.
What’s more shocking is that lifestyle choices, including diet could prevent half of these case, according to a cancer expert in the UK. While there has been much research and activity on the inheritance of cancer traits through heredity, only 10% or so of cancer are passed on through the genes.
The World Cancer Research Fund suggests “a diet packed with vegetables, fruit, and whole grains; cutting down on alcohol and red meat; and junking processed meat completely”, according to a BBC report.
Iowa grown vegetables purchased in January
This is what we created at Four Square Meals this week
For pick up Tuesday February 11
Warming spices, stewed vegetables. Winter warming food. Local offerings still coming in: squash from Friendly Farm in Iowa City, Iowa; carrots and kale from Grinnell Heritage Farm in Grinnell, Iowa; lemongrass from Mariposa Farms in Mariposa, Iowa. Looking forward to spring greens – dandelion, arugula, spinach, kale.
We’ll continue with slow cooked root vegetables and warming herbs and spices as the cold continues
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Brutal cold in Iowa here. Still regional ingredients in use, Red Curi and Hubbard squash from Friendly Farm in Iowa City, Carrots, Savoy Cabbage, Daikon Radish and Celariac from Grinnell Heritage Farms in Grinnell, Mushrooms from Blue’s Best Mushrooms in Vinton, Potatoes from Oak Hill Acres in Atalissa.
The menu is warming (with spices and long roasting vegetables) and brothy with high proteins and variety of phytonutrients from all the root vegetables. Grain a slow cooked in the oven, as are the root vegetables and squash.
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We needed those warming spices last week! This week we still are cooking with some Iowa grown produce; potatoes, sweet potatoes, daikon radish, napa and savoy cabbage, red curi and butternut squash, sage. These were not found at obscure markets but at New Pioneer Food Co-op. We’ll continue to aid the body’s digestion with cooked, especially roasted vegetables with the warming herbs and spices like garam masala, garlic and black papper, giving the body an extra kick. We are generous with onions in the winter too, as they help kick start a sluggish system with their liver cleansing properties.
Here’s our menu for next week:
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Hearty, warming meals for this frigid weather, we’ll use ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and cayenne among others.Kale, chiogga and gold beets from Grinnell Heritage Farm, Onions and savoy cabbage from Flint Ridge Farm in Iowa City, potatoes from Oak Hill Acres in Atalissa, Rosemary from Mariposa Farm in Grinnell.
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