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To Be Green or Not To Be Green

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Lanie Fioretti

The new zero waste grocery store, in.gredients, will be opening soon in Austin.  Unfortunately, it wasn’t open for the trip I just made.  In a couple weeks I’ll be going back and maybe it will be open then.  For information about in.gredients, click here. For 10 tips to greening up your home from the founder…

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Kerrville Cultural Center, Dining, and More

Posted on June 3, 2012August 22, 2016 by Lanie Fioretti

What a great weekend to go to Kerrville.  We drove Route 16 most of the way there, and just south of San Saba continuing almost to Fredericksburg was an unbelievable show of wildflowers.  Yellow and orange as far as you could see through the fields and up the hills as if someone laid a blanket…

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TSTC Gourmet Lunch and Austin

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Lanie Fioretti

TSTC Culinary Arts will serve its first gourmet lunch for the summer 2012 semester on Wednesday, June 13. Lunches are served from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays at the Greta W. Watson Culinary Arts Center, located on Campus Drive. (view map), 254.867.4868, www.waco.tstc.edu/cln.   Austin It didn’t occur to me that things…

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May 19 Waco Downtown Farmers Market

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Lanie Fioretti

It was another great Sat. at the Waco Downtown Farmers Market.  In addition to being a great farmers market, you just feel good when you’re there, because it’s such a fantastic atmosphere.  Caprino Royale was finally there, and I got some fresh feta.  Now I’m not a lover of goat milk products, but when they’re…

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Ciao Chia

Posted on May 19, 2012May 22, 2012 by Lanie Fioretti

Who knew when we were growing all those chia pets in the 1970s, that we should’ve been eating them!!  I know I’ve mentioned Chia Seeds and that I’ve been testing Omega 3 on myself.  I’m more convinced than ever that the lack of Omega 3 in our diets in a major factor in disease.  Some…

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