7th Gen Blog

Spring inspires fresh starts, whether it's revamping your wardrobe or starting a new exercise routine. This desire to renew and refresh extends to the home, too. Warm spring air inspires spring cleaning, new beginnings, and sometimes, redecorating.

I like decorating, but I don't like filling my house with lots of clutter. Yet every time I want to redecorate a little, I find myself buying yet more stuff, whether it's a new knickknack or end table. And I also don't like the price tag that can come with redecorating.

There's no menu in which fish do not loom large. Chefs live to net a good special. Dieters love their low-fat protein. Doctors dig their healthy omega-3s. And most of the rest of us load up because fish just taste so darn good. But here's the catch: The world's stocks are fished-out, mercury-infused, and sinking fast.

I have a confession: I know nothing about gardening.
 
I know. Talk about a key component to being green. I should at least be a rookie gardener, right? I should at least grow herbs or something easy, right? Nope and nope. I've wanted to get into herb and vegetable gardening for a long time, but I just haven't gotten around to it.

Until now.
 

Some people have a sweet tooth. I, on the other hand, have a dip tooth: Everything from hummus to onion dip to that which I consider the avocado form of ice cream: guacamole.
 
Guacamole, to me, is worth every calorie--which boils down to about 300 per cup, comparable to an equal serving of nonpremium ice cream (and lower in calories than the also-delicious hummus, which brings in about 435 per cup). Created by the Aztecs in the 1500s, it was believed to be an aphrodisiac and was a prized delicacy of the emperor Montezuma.