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Hi, it's a nice surprise to see my photo of the sprout sandwich used in this post (pic #4), but would you please link it to my Flickr account here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/caramimi

Somehow the current link points to a general Flickr page. Many thanks!!

Antoi
www.caramimi.com

thank you for this post! yes, it should be stressed for us to look for ways to eat better food, instead of just cheap finds.

i grew up in the 70's and i remember buying a whole chicken at the market used to be the norm. i learned how to cook, as a child, and my mother taught me how to properly cut up the chicken. i noticed in the late 80's chicken parts started to become more ubiquitous in the market, and it got harder to find whole chickens. the big-box retailers were growing like mad, so i always wondered if parts vs. whole was not entirely coincidental. this was also the time when our diets were using more and more chicken breasts, that i'm sure the factory farms moved their production to "parts" over whole birds.

you know, it's very easy to cut up a whole bird, but i know it's daunting for a lot of people. maybe you could post a "how to" video on this? and yes, whole chickens costs more now, which is pretty sad, but i suspect this reflects a demand of our buying habits -- even butchers are disappearing from the supermarkets.

i, myself, am on an extremely tight budget, but want to keep quality food on my table. i'm achieving this by eating more vegetarian dishes, and more whole foods. sometimes i'll buy free-range, local, organic meat if the craving strikes and i have a few dollars to spare. i'm also visiting my farmer's market and looking into community garden projects to see where i can learn to be more self-sufficient. i encourage us all to try to get in touch with the land, even if it's a simple trip to the weekend farmer's market.

use a glass jar. i, too, drink iced coffee every day, and transport all my cold drinks this way. i reuse my jars that hold about 12-16ozs with screw lids. i love it. i drink from glass, which for some reason is divine. i walk or take public transport and have never had my jar break or leak.

yes, try baking soda. i used to mix baking soda with lemon juice into a paste. i had an apartment kitchen with a badly stained white laminate counter, and this mixture brought it back to life.