Every dollar spent at a locally owned business generates two-to-four times the economic development impacts as a dollar spent on an equivalent non-local business.

— Forbes piece on the amazing power of spending locally. (via theuniverseinyou)
rootsnfruits: purple and green for dinner! dino kale, ruby chard, broccoli, tete noire cabbage, savoy cabbage and kohlrabi
weeheartfood: Avocado Hummus
thugkitchen: I’M SO TIRED OF MOTHER FUCKERS asking “Where do you get your protein?” All you simple minded bastards better read up some. I eat shit like whole grains, beans, nuts, lentils, tempeh… I mean hell, where the fuck are YOU getting your protein? Black beans are one of my favorite protein sources for sure. The insoluble fiber these are packing keeps the body feeling full while holding calories down low. But hold up, this shit also has soluble fiber to regulate the fuck out of your glucose levels. So eat more black beans and sign some fucking autographs. Black Bean and Cilantro Pesto Wrap 1 large bunch of cilantro, chopped, about 2 cups 2/3 cup slivered almonds 2-3 cloves of garlic, chopped 1 tablespoon lemon juice ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon lemon zest (just grate the skin of the lemon on the smallest side of your grater, calm the fuck down) ¼ cup olive oil ¼ cup vegetable broth or water Put all the ingredients for the pesto in a food processor and blend until sorta smooth. No food processor? Before I had one I’d just put the almonds in a bag and smash them until they are tiny and chop the rest of that shit up super small too. Mix all of it together with a fork until it looks like a paste. This recipe makes about 1 cup of goddamn delicious pesto. I like about ¼ cup of it for every 1 ½ cups of beans. For the lazy bastards, one 15-ounce can of black beans is about 1 ½ cups. Just mix the beans together with the pesto and wrap that shit up with whatever vegetables you have like: cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion, lettuce, avocado, corn, you get the fucking idea. Add salsa or lime juice if you want. I don’t give a fuck.
fitnessasbrghtasdskyy: 2 large old bananas + 1 cup of quick oats. You can add in choc chips, coconut, or nuts if you’d like. Then 350º for 15 mins. THAT’S IT! would be good for a grab and go bfast with some fruit (=
tonefastfitness: Recipe of the dayThe NEWEST LUNCH OBSESSION!!!!! Utterly brilliant, people. Not only does SALAD IN A JAR save space in your fridge, it also reduces food waste and gets non-salad eaters (me) to mow down daily. THE ARRANGEMENT From BOTTOM to TOP: Dressing Shredded carrots Cherry tomatoes Sunflower seeds Hard boiled eggs Baby spinach DIRECTIONS 1) Arrange ingredients in a large mason jar 2) Store in fridge for up to a week 3) When ready to eat: shake jar, place on a plate, and eat!You can make any arrangement you want… you can add red onion, cucumbers, radishes or peppers. Always remember to put the dressing at the bottom and the lettuce at the top—a MUST. Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/tonefastfitness
terribletumblt: portobello burgers🍔 #burger #mushroom #dinner #homemade
vegasmo: Always good advice, eff pesticides.
veganfoody: Spicy Quinoa, Cucumber and Tomato Salad
alexandraerin: fitgirlfriend: I’m sorry Fa bloggers, what were you saying about healthy food being too expensive? This among many was a great sale going on for in season produce at my kroger. Suck it. So, on top of not understanding how the human body works in any generality, we can add the concept of “too expensive” and “linear experience of time” to the list of things that fat-haters don’t grasp. First, guess what? “Too expensive” is a relative term. There are people out there who don’t have a dollar to spend on something perishable and relatively low calorie. Yeah, that’s right. Low calorie is a problem when you’re trying to stretch a very thin food budget, because the body needs calories to get through the day. You need nutrients in the long run, but you’ll collapse from a lack of calories before vitamin deficiencies show up. And it’s not like you can live on strawberries alone, either. So there are people who, given the choice between buying stuff that’s “healthy” but not enough to live on or buying the stuff that will get them through the week, will have to buy the stuff that gets them through the week, or even the day. To put it shortly: yeah, congratulations, you found strawberries for a dollar. Now put together a nutritionally sound day’s worth of food for a dollar. Then figure out how to do it on fifty cents, because there are people who don’t have a dollar every day. Then do it with a quarter. There’s no floor on poverty. And then… time. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m seeing a little thing that says “Was:$2.something” and is crossed out. And another thing underneath it listing Sunday-Tuesday. Hmm. It seems like these strawberries usually cost 2-3 times as much, and this is a limited time offer based on a not entirely predictable overstock or something. So, the question is, do you not understand that this picture you’ve taken is a snap shot of one instant of time, or do you think poor people only have to eat three days a week? Which is it?  By your logic, all I have to do is take a picture of strawberries at four or five dollars a pound and I have disproven your point FOREVER. Because that’s all it takes, apparently. One picture. I’d say “try harder”, but I actually don’t want you to do that. Your nasty toxic triumphant spewing of bile helps NO ONE and accomplishes NOTHING. If you tried harder, all you’d be doing is making things worse for more people, and it wouldn’t even be a case where you were selfishly enriching yourself at others’ expense because this doesn’t do anything for you, either. You want to focus on your fitness? You want to take advantage of the transportation, food access, and money that you have available to you to get the food you feel is the most healthy and nutritious? Oh my gosh, you just go right ahead and do that and no one will think the worse of you for it. Literally no one will have a problem with it. But this? This crowing and posturing here? That doesn’t help you. It doesn’t make you healthier. It doesn’t make you fitter. It doesn’t make you better. It just makes you toxic. Wow, all of this^