Small Bites will be attending the Brooklyn Food Conference on May 2nd.

You should too!

Please help the effort by signing the petition at:

Healthy School NYC

Now that Lucie is in public school, I am even more aware of the sad state of The National School Lunch Program.

Please take a minute to sign this petition instituted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest that asks Congress to improve food in our public schools:
Sign the Petition: Ask Congress to Improve Food in Schools

One of my favorite organizations, Environmental Working Group (the folks that have provided us with the incredibly useful list of the 12 least and the 12 most contaminated fruits and vegetables), is running a campaign to help get fair funding for organic farmers into the new Farm Bill, which is about to be voted on in Congress.

You can help by doing one or both of the following:
Sign the petition
Contribute to the campaign

For every donation of $65 or more, you will receive EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce grocery bag, made from 100% organic cotton.

Are you unhappy with the state of the school lunch program in this country?

So are these moms:
Two Angry Moms

I’ve been wondering recently why everyone talks about the dangers of global warming, but nobody says specifically what we can do as consumers to help stop the effects…except maybe buy a hybrid car.

A couple of easy things I learned we could be doing are: buying just one package of recycled toilet paper, paper towels or napkins per month; turning off the water when brushing our teeth; scraping the food off our dinner plates before putting them in the dishwasher (rather than rinsing); washing our laundry on warm rather than hot (I’ve been doing this for years and my laundry still gets clean!).

The website for the film, An Inconvenient Truth, has a take action section where you can get some ideas about how you can personally help to stop global warming. On a food-related note (because that’s why you’re here, right?), the website lists the following ways to save energy and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere: buy locally grown and produced foods; buy fresh instead of frozen foods; shop your local farmer’s market; buy organic. These things are good for the environment and good for our kids.