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Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.


Buy Local Food : ...but at the same time, figure out what makes sense. It is more energy efficient to raise lambs in New Zealand and ship them to the UK than to raise them in the UK, because New Zealand lamb farming is more energy efficient. It is also more energy efficient to buy produce raised in Spain, than produce that has to be grown in greenhouses in the UK. Baby steps require figuring out which things make sense and which don't.














Rovers Rewards Recipe
Rovers Rewards Category Pet Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

3/4 c Hot water or meat juices

1/2 c Margarine

1/2 c Powdered milk

1/2 ts Salt

2 ts Sugar

1 Egg; beaten

3 c Whole wheat flour

In a large bowl, pour hot water over margarine. Stir in powdered milk, salt, sugar and egg. Add flour, 1/2 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition. Knead 3 to 4 minutes, adding more flour if necessary to make a very stiff dough. Pat or roll to 1/2 inch thickness and cut out with a dog biscuit cutter. Place on a greased baking sheet and bake at 325 degrees for 50 minutes. Allow to cool and dry out till hard.

I bake these on an ungreased 14 x 15 1/2 inch air bake pan which it *fills* using both large and small cookie cutters. They can be placed side by side since there is no rising. They slide right off onto an opened brown bag and cool and harden in no time. I was advised in DOGHOUSE by a learned fellow that it might not be a bag idea to cut the sugar and salt quantities. Gotta watch their health too! Considering what's in the treats to be bought, these are considerably better for them. Shared by Robin Cole in Fidonet Cooking

 
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