The Halloween Effect
by Tracey Drabyk-Zirk, Professional Home Economist Many teachers and parents too, believe there’s a marked difference in children’s behavior on those days immediately following Halloween. More often than not, sugar …
Enhance Flavour with Veggies Instead of Salt
by Ellie Topp, Professional Home Economist ‘Eat your vegetables,’ has been consistent advice echoed by mothers for generations. Significant advances in nutritional science over the past two decades have confirmed …
Pumpkins – More than just decorations
By Getty Stewart, Professional Home Economist Pumpkins make great jack o’lanterns, but if you’re ready to take your pumpkins to the next level, check out these recipes collected from fellow …
Winter Squash Recipes
By Getty Stewart, Professional Home Economist Most squash are easily substituted. Acorn, butternut, buttercup, delicata and kabocha are fairly similar and can be use interchangeably. Delicata and kabocha are most …
Winter Squash – An Overview
By Getty Stewart, Professional Home Economist Every autumn the most famous representative of the squash family, the pumpkin, is dressed up and put out on stoops throughout North America. It …
Tips for Storing Tomatoes
by Getty Stewart, Professional Home Economist We’ve pulled all of our tomato plants (sigh) and took home a bunch of green, somewhat orange and red tomatoes. Looks like we’ll have a …
Storing Vegetables for Winter
By Alma Copeland, Home Economist TEAM Resources Pumpkins, winter squash and root vegetables can easily be stored for winter use. Even apartment dwellers can be successful at storing some vegetables …
Time to Revive Home Ec
NOBODY likes home economics. For most people, the phrase evokes bland food, bad sewing and self-righteous fussiness. But home economics is more than a 1950s teacher in cat’s-eye glasses showing …
Healthy Waste Free Lunches
In today’s fast-paced world, we have limited time. Convenience foods have emerged to meet this demand. Many things we purchase come ready prepared and individually packaged. This may make things …
Weight Bias
In a society where it is taboo to discriminate against someone for gender, race or religion, discrimination based on body shape and size is all too common and often is …
