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Grabbing a bite in your grocery is not only contributing to a growing trend, but it’s also a way to help your market deal with excess product (read: not throw away food) and ensure the fresh items you want in the perimeter departments are there the next time you need them. You’re not being lazy, you’re being green — and an important part of your market’s ecosystem. (Does your market serve wine? Go ahead and grab a glass as well. I mean, you don’t want that Pinot to go to waste.)

Here are how some of those cold and hot bar foods are green and use up food that might otherwise be wasted.

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For the most part, choosing to rent a house while on vacation instead of staying in a hotel is a no-brainer for me. I can enjoy plenty of meals at local restaurants, but also have the option to stay in and cook, which gives me an excuse to check out nearby farmers markets, as well as take a break from eating out.

This past year it’s also become something of a way of life, as my husband and I have spent about a quarter of the year traveling from Los Angeles to New Orleans and back for his job, living in vacation rentals and cooking in vacation rental kitchens for months at a time. Cooking in a temporary, poorly stocked kitchen is never as easy as cooking at home, but I’ve figured out some ways to make it a little less annoying.

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• Today’s topic: Understand what’s happening to your beer right now
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With the first exciting week of active fermentation behind us, it might look like nothing is happening in your beer — but looks can be deceiving. The next few weeks are a quiet, but important, time for our freshly made homebrew. Today, let’s talk about what’s going on in that jug and why we don’t want to rush things.

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This mac and cheese is for those times when you just can’t be bothered to pull out a pan. You need some cheesy goodness, and you need it now. One bowl. All yours. No leftovers.

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Peanut Butter & Chocolate Energy Bars

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Elaborate snacks are great once in a while, but it can be hard to invest a lot of ingredients and cooking into something that should be quick and easy. This isn’t dinner, after all. If you’re feeling lazy but want something more than just an apple or raw vegetables, consider making one of these super easy snacks that have just four ingredients (or in some cases, even fewer!).

From peanut butter and chocolate energy bars, to strawberry-yogurt popsicles, these simple snack recipes will always be there when you need something in between meals.

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What I love about summer is the fruit. There are peaches and plums for pies, nectarines for dribbling down your chin, apricots for tarts, cherries for snacks, and all sorts of berries for breakfast — plus other melons, like cantaloupe and honeydew, to wrap ham around. But what other fruit offers a crunchy snack, a juice for drinking (with or without a boozy booster), seeds for spitting contests, and a big round shape for greasing and throwing around the pool, lake, or ocean (have you played greased pig yet this summer)?

It’s the watermelon. When it’s good, it’s really good, and needs little else to completely satisfy a craving for a cool, sweet treat.

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