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Tips For Packing a Healthy and Satisfying Vegan Lunchbox. The salad you see on the left in the photo above is the radicchio, endive, orange, and walnut salad I shared yesterday.

Tips For Packing a Healthy and Satisfying Vegan Lunchbox

In that post, I mentioned I’d have at least one serving idea for you, and I do: this is how I packed up some of the leftovers in my take-to-work lunchbox on Monday. It’s a goal of mine to share more of my packable lunches this year and next, and that goal has only been strengthened by diving into nutrition work again. Many of my clients report that it’s easy enough for them to plan a healthy meal at home, but when they have to start planning meals to tote to work or school day in and day out, it becomes harder to meet nutrient needs while also pleasing the tastebuds.

So, let’s chat about packing up a healthy, convenient, and satisfying vegan lunch. Perennial Vegetables: Grow More Food With Less Work - Organic Gardening. Related Content Easiest Vegetables to Grow Ready to start your first garden?

Perennial Vegetables: Grow More Food With Less Work - Organic Gardening

To guarantee success with your first garden, stick with Barbara Pl... Plant Edible Ground Cover You can sneak a few attractive, low maintenance food plants onto your lawn, and your neighbors will ... Suppose a new agricultural breakthrough promised higher yields, a longer growing season and much less work. Nature’s ecosystems always include not only annual vegetables, but also perennials — edible roots, shoots, leaves, flowers and fruits that produce year after year.

By growing perennials, you’ll create a more diverse garden that ultimately needs less from you: You’ll spend less time working and more time harvesting. “It’s as close to zero-work gardening as you can get,” says Eric Toensmeier, author of Perennial Vegetables. What’s more, growing perennials extends the harvest season without a greenhouse, cold frame or other device. 3 Ways to Incorporate Garden Perennials 1. 2. 3. 10 Best Perennials 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. *Simon Says Stamp Card Kit of the Month APRIL 2012 Sunnier Days. Reutilize latinhas de alumínio para elevar a potência do sinal Wi-Fi. O CicloVivo separou uma dica de como reutilizar uma lata de refrigerante ou cerveja para aumentar o sinal Wi-Fi de maneira ecologicamente correta.

Reutilize latinhas de alumínio para elevar a potência do sinal Wi-Fi

Uma folha de alumínio é capaz de aumentar o sinal. Porém, é necessário fazer uma curva na folha para direcionar a transmissão, então, nada mais prático do que utilizar uma latinha de alumínio que além de mais resistente já possui o formato adequado. Para este projeto você vai precisar de uma tesoura, um estilete, massa adesiva reutilizável e uma latinha de alumínio vazia. O primeiro passo é lavar a lata de alumínio vazia.

Após estar limpa e seca, remova o anel. Corte o fundo da lata com o auxílio de uma tesoura ou estilete. Feito isso, coloque massa adesiva na tampa do lado oposto da abertura – se achar necessário, e conecte sua lata ao roteador Wi-Fi. Tome cuidado para que a antena não fique ao alcance de crianças, que podem se machucar com o corte das latas. Redação CicloVivo. The style files. Organizing Tasks for a New Home. I am a few weeks in to being the very proud new owner of my first home, and along with that has come a task list a mile long.

Organizing Tasks for a New Home

Since I am prone to keeping it all running in my head and then getting overwhelmed, I am to really trying to do things a little differently than usual.I am head over heels with my 1919 Craftsman home but she needs a little love and updating to bring her up to speed and be able to make it through another century. With all that I have on my hands and in my mind for the next few months I have to find a way to keep sane and organized throughout the process. Luckily I have a friend who is incredibly organized and has helped me out tremendously towards setting me on the right path. Here are some of her suggestions: 547676_396564833740411_1814557582_n.jpg (547×720) 599813_332688900151808_1001929234_n.jpg (640×427) DacnieIdei20.jpg (800×584)

Real Life Lessons from a First-Time Painter. I have a confession: I'm a design writer who, until recently, had never actually painted a room.

Real Life Lessons from a First-Time Painter

I've spent countless hours staring at fan decks, and I've memorized more shade names that I care to admit, but as someone who has hopped from rental to rental, rarely staying put for more than a year at a time, painting never quite seemed worth it. But as of this month, I'm proud to say that my neophyte status is no more. Ttage Garden Flowers. Cottage Garden Flowers Cottage Garden Flowers When we think of romantic country gardens, a garden full of Cottage Garden Plants comes to mind. Many do not realize that many of these plants are also herbs and help each other grow and thrive. Cottage Garden Plants and companion herbs are synonymous. THE DREAM BLOG - THE DREAM STUDIO. Recipes for Milk and Lime Paint. This long-tested recipe is easy and inexpensive, yet creates a durable, beautiful paint for projects large and small.

Recipes for Milk and Lime Paint

It is generally considered an interior paint unless properly coated with a suitable exterior topcoat. The amounts given will make approximately 1¾ quarts of paint, to cover approximately 90 to 100 square feet. UMA CASA COLORIDÍSSIMA. Casa de novela: Cenário de ‘Louco por elas’ une antigo e moderno - Decoração e Jardim. Weekly wrap up + pretty pegs. Todos os serviços e negócios 24h de São Paulo num só lugar. Living in: atonement. No movie in recent memory has captured English wartime romance quite as well as Atonement.

living in: atonement

A dreamy wisp of florals and wildflowers in the years preceding World War II, the film follows the scandal and intrigue that rock a proper countryside manse. Pattern on pattern, privileged parties, feminine swags and fantastic party dresses — if it weren’t for the impending war, I’d say sign me up. — Amy Merrick The full post continues after the jump . . . So the whole “World War II tragic love story” turn in the movie puts a damper on my English garden reveries, but it does have its stylistic merits.

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