food Archives - Small Things Count https://smthingscount.com/tag/food/ Making a More Loving World/Free Books Sun, 04 Jul 2021 23:07:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Charity on a Budget https://smthingscount.com/2020/03/10/charity-on-a-budget/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:44:14 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8972 Yes, you’d love to give more, but what can you do on such a tight budget?  The answer: always keep others in mind.  Use coupons

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]]> Teaching Charity https://smthingscount.com/2020/01/17/teaching-charity/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:53:30 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8803 A fellow parishioner decided when her kids were very young that they needed to learn charity.  She taught them to give something to every person

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]]> Thanksgiving Prayer https://smthingscount.com/2019/11/27/thanksg-prayer/ Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:41:49 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8475 Here’s a very simple act that we can all perform each day: offer up the “Thanksgiving Prayer.”  Not just at Thanksgiving, but all year long. 

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]]> Which is the Only Insect that Makes Food for People? https://smthingscount.com/2019/10/19/which-is-the-only-insect-that-makes-food-for-people/ Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:55:37 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8383 Yes, they’re bothersome sometimes. And some people are allergic to them. But they’re very clean and do us a very sweet service.

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]]> Idea for a Party https://smthingscount.com/2019/10/08/idea-for-a-party/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:51:10 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8477 Here’s an idea: have an Immigrant Party and invite your immigrant friends.  Don’t have any?  Sure you do.  All of our kinfolk came from somewhere

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]]> Our Seniors are Hungry https://smthingscount.com/2019/09/16/our-seniors-are-hungry/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:56:24 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8437 The AARP reported some startling statistics about our senior citizens (age 50+). Many are going hungry in the U.S. Here are their figures: 10+ million

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]]> Feeding the 5000: a Slightly Irreverent Cartoon https://smthingscount.com/2019/06/04/feeding-the-5000-a-slightly-irreverent-cartoon/ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:57:19 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8133 You don’t have to be a Bible-reader to appreciate this cartoon about modern times.

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]]> Solution Sunday https://smthingscount.com/2019/03/20/solution-sunday/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:32:10 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=7859 A couple of senators got together and came up with an idea that can actually unite rather than divide us–Solution Sunday. It involves food, conversation,

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]]> New GMO Label Rules Don’t Use the Term GMO https://smthingscount.com/2019/01/26/new-gmo-label-rules-dont-use-the-term-gmo/ Sat, 26 Jan 2019 16:38:01 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=7714 Remember this word: Bioengineered. It’s the term the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has settled on for food labels that will indicate the presence of

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]]> Extending Thanksgiving https://smthingscount.com/2018/11/23/extending-thanksgiving/ Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:27:00 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=7396 Let’s extend Thanksgiving a day…no, a lifetime. If prayer (or God) isn’t your thing, substitute whatever guiding force you use in your life, maybe simply

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