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Seattle Produce Finds

The Town & Country chain (Shoreline Central Market & Ballard Market) have assorted varieties of melons on sale for 2.50/ea.  Sharlyn, Orange Honeydews, Crenshaws, Santa Claus, Hami, etc.  Some of them are huge.  We tasted a Sharlyn last night in Ball

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24 hrs. to save the whales!


Within days, a proposal will be unveiled that could legalizecommercial whale hunting for the first time in 24 years.

Once the proposal becomes public, member countries of theInternational Whaling Commission will make a decision to support it --or push

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Vibram Five Fingers (KSO vs. FLOW models?)

My hubby & I are interested in trying these. We live in Seattle and are just getting into exercise, wanting to start walking more, then hopefully running. I've read a bit about these shoes and know they take time to build up muscles and to start slow

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Fat content of strained nut milks?

I just did a bit of searching and it looks like 1 oz. brazil nuts has 19g fat, while 1 c. strained brazil nut milk (which I made with about 1 oz. nuts) has 2.5g fat. It sounds like the fat in nut milks is fairly negligable unless one drinks a lot. Do

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Do you like white sapote?

I think I tried a few last year from cherimoya.com and wasn't thrilled (although I looooove their cherimoya--give it a try when it comes into season in a few months!). Is it worth another try? I'd have to order a small box from them for about $35 inc

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Vit D & Sun

FYI, I just read on another forum ("GoingRaw" on Yahoo Groups) of someone whose vitamin D went from 16-28 in 2 weeks of sun. Dr. wants her to be around 40-50, but that's quite an increase she got in a short time! The sun is good! (If you can do it wi

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