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Valley Natural Foods: Teach your Preschooler to Cook!
Parents, do you need help cooking a healthy meal for your family? Well, look no further than your preschooler! You probably are thinking, “What!?” However, it is true. It is easier to get your kids interested in eating healthy if they are actively involved in helping cook family meals early on. So how do you [...]
City Market/Onion River Co-op: Cooking and Gardening Classes at the NOFA-VT Winter Conference!
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City Market/Onion River Co-op: Midway Through Winter, we're getting back to our local roots
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Valley Natural Foods: Valentine Treats at the Co-op
Are you planning a special home-cooked dinner for your Valentine this year? Are you cooking your special meal together? Then look no further than the co-op for some lovely ideas! Our meat department will have specially cut “heart-shaped” beef rib-eye steaks (all-natural or grass-fed), perfectly sized for sharing with your Valentine. Our meat manager Jason [...]
Valley Natural Foods: What’s Fresh: Oranges
Oranges are an amazing fruit (so amazing that author and essayist John McPhee wrote an entire book about them). With a history that stretches back to ancient China, oranges are consumed in many different ways around the world. Given their nutritional value (an excellent source of both vitamin C and fiber) and fresh flavor, it’s [...]
City Market/Onion River Co-op: Citrus Season
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Valley Natural Foods: What’s FRESH LOCAL in February? Easy Healthy Meals on the Bulk Trail
By Loris Sofia Gregory, Healthy Kitchen Coach, Apple Valley, MN “A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot where it is being boiled. ‘Why are you doing this to me?’ The cook knocks him down with the ladle. ‘Don’t try to jump out. You think I am torturing you. I’m giving you flavor, [...]
Valley Natural Foods: Easy Chili, Easy Game Day!
Looking for something easy, fast and tasty to serve on game day? How about serving chili that tastes like you cooked all day! Brown 1 lb. ground beef or turkey, add one bottle of Chili Starter (any flavor of your choice), and simmer for just a few minutes. Dish it up and offer your diners [...]
Community Food Co-op (WA): International Year of Cooperatives Video Premier
This last Saturday was the premier of the video series starring Kevin Gillespie from Top Chef, produced by the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) for the International Year of Cooperatives. As you may know from earlier posts, our co-op was one of eight in the nation picked to be featured in the series. Our videos don’t start premiering until February 20th, but the first three...
Valley Natural Foods: Local and Lovely from Burnsville!
We love locally-produced products! Our wellness department recently added a lovely line of local organic skin care products to our shelves that we think you’ll love too! They’re as local as you can get because they’re produced right here in Burnsville! Check out Vika’s Essentials, an organic skin care line that is free of chemicals [...]
