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media type="custom" key="387521"In this section of our wiki you will find healthy eating recipes and ways to eat more organically.

A very popular brand of vegetarian food is Morning Star Farms. Their food ranges from wonderful Broccoli and Cheese Veggie Bites to even more delicious Chicken Patties. All of their "meat" products are not actually meat, but an organic compound of goodness. Their food's are completely meat free, but in my opinion, better than meat. Reducing your meat intake is both healthy and good for the environment. Meat is loaded with fat and unnecessary, unhealthy filler ingredients, like steriods. By reducing meat intake you also cut out the animals that are being fed plants to fatten them up just for food. Those plants could very easily be consumed for human intake while cutting out the second consumer, and stopping world hunger.

If you want to make your own dish, you could always follow the recipe below and make a Vegetarian Taco Salad.

//Vegetarian Taco Salad// 1 cup black beans, drained not rinsed 7 oz. Romaine lettuce 1 cup diced tomatoes 1 cup reduced fat shredded, cheddar cheese 1/4 cup chile peppers 1/4 cup reduced fat sour cream 1 cup salsa 40 baked, corn tortilla chips Mix all ingredients except salsa and chips in a large salad bowl. Toss to mix well then add salsa and toss again. Serves on bed of tortilla chips. Makes 4 servings. **Prep Time: 5 minutes**

Recipe created by Cabot Creamery. For more recipes go to [|www.3aday.org]

The Top 10 Foods to Eat Organically

 * Excerpted from Your Organic Kitchen, by Jesse Ziff Cool.**

Some conventionally grown foods are treated with more pesticides than others. Some retain more of the pesticides. Here is a list of the top 10 foods containing the most pesticides, according to the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research group based in Washington, D.C.


 * SIMPLE SOLUTION:** You can sidestep harm and still eat vitamin-rich foods. If you cannot find these foods organically, here are some great alternatives that contain the same valuable vitamins and minerals.


 * High-Pesticide Food:** Strawberries
 * Main Nutrient:** Vitamin C
 * Healthy Alternatives:** Blueberries, raspberries, oranges, grapefruit, kiwifruit, watermelon


 * High-Pesticide Food:** Bell peppers
 * Main Nutrient:** Vitamin C
 * Healthy Alternatives:** Green peas, broccoli, romaine, lettuce


 * High-Pesticide Food:** Spinach
 * Main Nutrient:** Vitamins A and C
 * Healthy Alternatives:** Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, asparagus


 * High-Pesticide Food:** Cherries
 * Main Nutrient:** Vitamin C
 * Healthy Alternatives:** Oranges, blueberries, raspberries, kiwifruit, blackberries, grapefruit


 * High-Pesticide Food:** Peaches
 * Main Nutrient:** Vitamins A and C
 * Healthy Alternatives:** Nectarines, watermelon, tangerines, oranges, grapefruit


 * High-Pesticide Food:** Mexican cantaloupe
 * Main Nutrient:** Vitamins A and C and potassium
 * Healthy Alternatives:** U.S. cantaloupe grown from May to December, watermelon


 * High-Pesticide Food:** Celery
 * Main Nutrient:** Carotenoids
 * Healthy Alternatives:** Carrots, broccoli, radishes, romaine lettuce


 * High-Pesticide Food:** Apples
 * Main Nutrient:** Vitamin C
 * Healthy Alternatives:** Watermelon, nectarines, bananas, tangerines


 * High-Pesticide Food:** Apricots
 * Main Nutrient:** Vitamins A an C and potassium
 * Healthy Alternatives:** Nectarines, watermelon, oranges, tangerines


 * High-Pesticide Food:** Green beans
 * Main Nutrient:** Potassium
 * Healthy Alternatives:** Green peas, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, potatoes, asparagus

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I, Megan, am not vegetarian and do not plan on being vegetarian any time soon. But, I am trying to decrease the amount of red meat I eat. I am I guess a 'chickaterian', that is, I only eat white meat products. I am trying to eat more natural foods though. Some of the brands I've come across so far have been Nature Valley and of course Kashi. Kashi is pretty expensive, but just one of their bars can make a very filling lunch. Nature Valley is very inexpensive and their granola bars taste very good.

If you try [|www.kashi.com] it will give you not only Kashi foods, but other ways to make your kitchen more 'natural', like this artice: http://kashi.com/articles/10.