Recent Blog Posts

The Best Fruit and Vegetable Seasonings

Depending on your household growing up, there’s a chance that it might be easy to dismiss fruits and vegetables as unexciting “healthy” foods that you’ve always considered boring. Because of their constant presence on your lunch tray at school or a seeming obstacle between you and your favorite Cookies and Cream ice cream, there’s a chance you might be holding on to a small, bitter resentment towards things on the greener side. It’s time to reconcile those feelings. It’s time to reimagine your relationship with fruits and vegetables. It’s time to… we have to say it… spice things up.

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How to Make Comfort Food Healthier

A comfort food comes from a different place for every individual. The real definition is anything food that you use to feel better, but in the United States this is usually thought of as a calorie dense goodie. Sometimes it is a dessert, sometimes it is a pasta recipe. Often it is something simple, like the freshly baked chocolate chip cookies your caregivers treated you to when you had a bad day at school or felt overwhelmed by your workload. These foods are almost never healthy for you. The saturated fat and the other heavy ingredients like sugar or salt make for a fulfilling experience that isn’t usually nutritionally dense.

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Put Your Ballot Where Your Mouth Is

Wow! Just what you were looking for! Another blog about politics! We know that people are tired of talking about it, and hearing about it, and tired of reading about it. But the fact remains that even if you don’t participate in voting, there are consequences that affect you so this is just a small, tiny overview of a single facet of politics related to the things that both affect us as a spice company and you, as a consumer. Okay- it’s been a while since your civic studies class. Politics seems both difficult to talk about and navigate while simultaneously impossible to avoid. These policies have very real consequences on your life. You know you’re supposed to vote, but it can seem an exercise in futility when it there seems to be very little progress or action on the issues that most matter to you. We’d like to compile a little information, so you can consider the way your vote and participation in elections can shape food.

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Eating Well on a Budget

At this point, eating well on a budget might just seem like common sense stuff. One quick search on the internet will yield a thousand of the same bland results. Buying in bulk, cooking at home, and avoiding grocery shopping when you are hungry are all valid points, but despite the information, some of it seems lacking in depth. How do we do these things and how does it help?

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