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Posts tagged ‘Real Food’

Weekly Plant-Based Love <3

For various health reasons (grrr cholesterol!),  I’m supposed to get at least a cup of oatmeal every day.  I like oatmeal, but cannot eat it every day. I am too easily food bored to do that 🙂 And because my diet is primarily plant-based, I’ve found this to be the easiest answer: Homemade Oat Milk!

Just some quick pics of this weekend’s Oat Milk Makin 🙂

If You Teach, Consider Doing This To Help Fight Hunger

Teaching peeps: if you haven’t already, please consider adding a hunger and homelessness statement to your syllabus, letting students know that not only are there resources available on your campus, but that you care, that both their well-being and their dignity matter.
 
Here’s mine.
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Food and Housing Insecurity Statement for Syllabus
 
Food insecurity is defined as conditions in which persons, in this case, students, do not have adequate resources to feed themselves, either nutritiously or not at all (USDA, 2013). According to a recent studies, hunger and homelessness. are common and growing problems for students at colleges and universities across the country, potentially undermining the educational success of untold thousands of students. If food insecurity or shelter are issues for you, or for someone you know, please know help is readily available.
 
Any student who has difficulty affording groceries or accessing sufficient food to eat every day, or who lacks a safe and stable place to live, and believes this may affect their performance in the course, is urged to contact me, or another professor with whom you are comfortable, for a list of resources and support. This will enable us to assist you in finding the resources you may need. I promise complete confidentiality.
 
Longwood’s student food pantry, Elwood’s Cabinet, as well as the Lil Office Food Bank, maintained by an English professor in Grainger, are free resources with food and personal care items.
 
Elwood’s Cabinet is located in the basement of the Wesleyan Campus Ministry building at 204 High Street, across from Ruffner. They are open Monday nights, 6-930pm. More details are available here: https://elwoodscabinet.weebly.com/
 
The Lil Office Foodbank is located in Grainger 112, open Tuesdays 1230-2 & 5-9, and Thursdays, 1230-2, and as needed by appointment. You can email me and I will meet you there any time you are in need, even after hours.
 
Do not go hungry. We can help.
Lil Office Food Bank

Daily Prompt Love <3 Particular Pain

20 August 2019 

Hunger is pain.

Make art about going hungry, about the damage of hunger, about the victims of hunger, especially in a country known for excess. 

hunger

Image by taniarose from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Give It a Try

15 August 2019 

That GrandPerson tried mussels for the first time this year. He loved them!

Make art about trying something for the first time. 

Max scallops - cropped

Daily Prompt Love <3 Bread, God

11 July 2019 

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

Make art about hunger. 

hunger

Image by billy cedeno from Pixabay

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Spreading the Love

6 June 2019

Make art about pollinators, about pollination, literal or metaphorical. 

pollinators

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Hot?

11 May 2019

Make art about spicing it up, whatever ‘it’ is 🙂 

spices

Image by Matej Madar from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Spicing It Up

22 November 2017 

Make art about a memory associated with the scent of spices.

spices

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Gifts & Soup & Conspiracy Theories

Dec 18

Wrapping presents 🙂 I’ve never before managed to have them wrapped this early LOL  Make art about something kept under wraps. 

Dec 19

That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  Made Garden Vegetable Soup for me and my son.

Make art about soup. 

Dec 20 

Read a new story this morning about someone carrying a belief in a conspiracy theory too far. Make art about conspiracy. 

tree with presents

Sometimes the Prompt Fills You Up

10/22/2015

“I want to remember us this way—late September sun streaming through
the window, bread loaves and golden bunches of grapes on the table, spoonfuls of hot soup rising to our lips, filling us with what endures.”~Peter Pereira

Make art about sustenance.

lentil soup

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