I love a good guacamole dip for the New Year celebration and may have to indulge heavily to get my fill before next year. This is due to expected high prices in the Spring. Because of unusually warm summer weather and reduced water supplies from Northern California the amount of California grown avocados to be [...]
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We all know times are tough but during the holidays we sometimes want to indulge ourselves with a little luxury. One item that has become a little more affordable this Christmas season is lobster. Both hard-shell lobster and cooked lobster meat are running at record low prices.
These low prices are mostly being recognized in the northeast where lobster is [...]
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As we stand in our local megamarts looking at the vast shelves of products it’s easy to forget that much of the world lives in hunger and poverty. The holidays and the recessionary times bring this to our minds more than in times of abundance. Could you eat on $1 a day for one month? [...]
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The weather is definitely turning colder! I was sitting at my desk looking out the window the other day. I saw a squirrel busily traversing from one tree to another. It was taking the dead leaves from one tree and bringing them to a nest it was building in the other. A nest to shelter it [...]
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