The Hemp Connection:
peppers

One of the nice things about eating healthfully is that you also eat more economically, as you can eat the foods that are generally cheaper…which are the ones that are in season.

If you've seen some of the end of the summer bounty and felt remorse at not being able to buy more because you didn't know what to do with it, I found some great links with insructions for how to preserve some seasonal favorites to be used long after summer is gone.

How to freeze basil
How to freeze peaches
How to freeze corn on the cob
How to freeze peppers
How to freeze green beans

I'm not at all a fan of the Food Guide Pyramid or the new My Pyramid. I know too much about the politics of how each food got its position in the diagram. And I know that the concept is promoted by the Department of Agriculture, not the Department of Health and Human Services. So it's really about marketing commodities at least as much, if not more than, promoting healthy eating.

Last year at this time it occurred to me that eating patriotically (if you are a citizen of the United States, France, Chile, Czechoslovakia, and the United Kingdom, to name a few), is a fun way to think about what constitutes a healthy choice.

So I went to Google to see if there was anything under the term,"food flag". I found this:

Sausage and pasta were not really what I had in mind, so I scrolled further, and found this:

Absolutely not what I wanted to communicate!

So…I had a little fun and I made my own. I hope you like it!

I posted a bigger version on my website, feel free to use it as long as you keep the copyright notice intact in the lower righthand corner. You can find it at www.afterthediet.com/foodflag.htm.