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Buy Local Food : It’s easy to take locally abundant foods for granted when they’re in season, but you can enjoy many locally produced foods out of season by stocking up. Storing big baskets of hazelnuts (in the Northwest) or pecans (in the Southeast) will come naturally if you start thinking like a squirrel. Look for foods that keep well, such as nuts, honey, winter squash and sweet potatoes and stock up.


Buy Organic Foods : There are 12 foods where buying organic makes even more sense than normal.
According to the EWG (Environmental Working Group) the 12 most contaminated foods are:
  • apples
  • bell peppers
  • celery
  • cherries
  • imported grapes
  • nectarines
  • peaches
  • pears
  • potatoes
  • red raspberries
  • spinach
  • strawberries
All tested positive for pesticide residue – even after having been washed! Sweet bell peppers were the vegetable with the most pesticides overall, with 39 pesticides detected on a single sample. Conversely, if you're going to buy conventional, peas, broccoli, onions, pineapples, mangoes, bananas, kiwi and papaya had the lowest occurrence of pesticide residue.


Dieting 101

The Atkins’ Diet
Developed by dr. robert atkins in the 1960s, the atkins diet achieved most of its fame during the last few years. Although not accepted by all scientists, it claims to allow fat reduction whilst allowing you to eat many of the foods you love, eg fatty meat and some dairy produce.
With the atkins diet you eat protein and fat, it is the carbs that are on the banned list. Because of this, it is known as a low carb/high protein, diet system.
With this diet, the foods you should avoid are processed and refined sugar, milk, white bread, starchy vegetables, white rice and white flour, amongst them, cereals and pasta made from white flour.
Unlike other diets, on the atkins diet the foods you are encouraged to eat continues to be nutrient-rich unprocessed foods such as meat, fish & poultry. You also can eat shellfish, regular full fat cheese, butter & olive oil.

The Atkins’ Diet Theory
The 'science' behind the atkins diet is that even though our bodies use both fats and carbs to burn into carbohydrates, it is the carbs that are burned first. If we take in fewer carbohydrates, our bodies will deplete our fat and we will reduce weight. Although inviting, this theory is divisive, not all experts agree and quite a few believe it can sometimes be hazardous.










Mexi-Corn Lasagna Recipe
Mexi-Corn Lasagna Category Beef Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

1 pound Ground beef

17 ounces Whole kernel corn, canned -- drained

15 ounces Tomato sauce, canned

1 cup Picante sauce

1 tablespoon Chili powder

1 1/2 teaspoons Ground cumin

16 ounces Low-Fat cottage cheese

2 Eggs, slightly beaten

1/4 cup Parmesan cheese -- grated

1 teaspoon Oregano leaves -- crushed

1/2 teaspoon Garlic salt

12 Corn Tortillas

1 cup Cheddar cheese -- shredded

Brown meat; drain. Add corn, tomato sauce, picante sauce, chili powder and cumin. Simmer, stirring frequently, 5 minutes. Combine cottage cheese, eggs, Parmesan cheese, oregano and garlic salt; mix well. Arrange 6 tortillas on bottom and up sides of a lightly greased 9x13x2-inch baking dish, overlapping as necessary. Top with 1/2 the meat mixture. Spoon cheese mixture over meat. Arrange remaining tortillas over cheese, overlapping as necessary. Top with remaining mixture. Bake in preheated oven at 375` about 30 minutes, or until hot and bubbly. Remove from oven; sprinkle with cheese. Let stand 10 minutes before serving with additional picante sauce. Makes 8 servings. Formatted by Lynn Thomas dcqp82a. Recipe from Gramma/Helen Jolly wwgq25d. Lynn's notes: I made this 5-12-97. Added 1 chopped onion, 3 cloves minced garlic and 1 red pepper, chopped to the meat in the skillet as it cooked. This was an excellent dish and easy to make!

 
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