You have likely seen ‘BPA Free’ stickers popping up on hard plastic bottles all over the place! Just what is this BPA? Why is it so dangerous? What Is BPA? Bisphenol A, commonly abbreviated as BPA, is an organic compound with two phenol functional groups. It is used to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins, along [...]
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Your Health: BPA
Posted in Health, In The News on July 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Made in The USA
Posted in Health, Helping Others, Home Store, In The News, tagged buy local, made in america, made in the USA, shelf reliance, thrive on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s age of ‘out sourcing’, almost every product we buy has ‘made in china’ or a similar country attached. When we pick up our phone to make a customer service call, our calls are often transferred over seas. In this day and age ‘made in America’ has become something rather rare. According to the [...]
Our Daily Starch?
Posted in Food Storage 101, Health, Home Store, Product Feature, Reducing Food Waste, Uncategorized, tagged bread, enriched wheat flour, health, whole grain on June 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Bread. For many generations, bread has been an essential to life for man kind. It was *the* staple of every culture. Bread was healthy. Bread was life sustaining. But now, it seems, bread just makes you fat. Most likely you can peek at the label of one of your favorite treats and you will see [...]












