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It’s Finally Here! Peach Season

August 14, 2012 at 10:49 am

By Kelli Swensen, Dietetics Student, Sargent College Picture Source Cherry season and sweet corn season have been tasty, but my favorite season is finally here: peach season! Yes those sunset-colored, fuzzy-skinned fruits are the highlight of summer for my taste buds. Suffering from end of summer head cold (why does this always have to happen?)? […]

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Local Produce: Get it While You Still Can

August 6, 2012 at 3:06 pm

By Kelli Swensen, Dietetics Student, Sargent College As hard as it is to believe, August is already here. While for some of you that doesn’t mean too much, but for any teachers, students, or parents it’s the final countdown to complete all your summer plans. If one of your plans involved eating more local produce, […]

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The Sweetness of Summer (Squash)

August 1, 2012 at 3:37 pm

By Kelli Swensen, Dietetics Student, Sargent College This week’s box in pictures: As much as I love zucchini and summer squash, it can get tricky knowing what to do with so much of it. Once you’ve added it to stir fry, pasta, and sandwiches, or stuffed it, what do you do with that little bit […]

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Spinach? In a Smoothie?!

July 30, 2012 at 3:40 pm

By Ashley Packer, Dietetic Intern, Sargent Choice Nutrition Center As an intern working with Sargent Choice, one of my responsibilities was to come up with new smoothie recipes for the Late Night Café. Previously, the smoothies were made with a small amount of frozen fruit and soft serve mix….sounds more like a milk shake to […]

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CSA Box: Turnip Pairings

July 19, 2012 at 12:44 pm

By Kelli Swensen, Dietetics Student, Sargent College Looking over the contents of this week’s box, each ingredient seemed so familiar and could easily be incorporated into a summer-perfect salad What is in the box: — 1/2 pint Blueberries — 1/2 pint Cherry Tomatoes — 6 ears Sweet Corn — 1 bunch Turnips — 3 Cucumbers […]

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Brookline Farmer’s Market

July 18, 2012 at 10:11 am

By Kelli Swensen, Dietetics Student, Sargent College While you wont necessarily save money by shopping at the Brookline Farmer’s Market, you will find high quality local ingredients. Last Thursday my friend and I decided to check out the market. Being broke college students we didn’t buy anything, but we did visit each station and even […]

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Fresh Ingredients at Every Meal

July 17, 2012 at 11:18 am

By Kelli Swensen, Dietetics Student, Sargent College In no way do I expect you to make all these dishes in the same day, I thought it could be useful to give you guys an example of how to incorporate produce from the CSA boxes into each meal. But first, what was in the box last […]

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Now Entering the Dog Days of Summer: CSA Box

July 9, 2012 at 7:56 am

By Rebecca Shrago, Dietetic Intern, Sargent College Now that the 4th of July is behind us – the fireworks done, the cookouts over, the masses back to work – we have officially entered the Dog Days of Summer. And as I stood in front of the air conditioner last night, starving but absolutely unwilling to […]

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High Quality Produce at Affordable Prices

July 7, 2012 at 10:47 pm

By Kelli Swensen, Dietetics Student, Sargent College MIT Market Produce Stand Similar to BU wanting to provide the community with access to local food goods, MIT’s Produce Market, run by Russo’s, offers an option for affordable, healthy fruits and vegetables. Located in Watertown, MA, Russo’s is a family-run operation that has been around for over […]

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Food Days of Summer

July 5, 2012 at 1:54 pm

By Kelli Swensen, Dietetics Student, Sargent College Picture Source One of the great emerging trends is the push to eat local and sustainable. Here at BU,there has been tremendous effort to make our university more sustainable (for more information on exactly what BU is doing, check out BU Sustainability’s comprehensive website). But what does it […]

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