Today’s shopper is Dr. Susanne Bennett, a holistic chiropractor who also founded a line of skin care products called Purigenex. She’s going to make her organic heirloom tomato bolognese sauce.  She starts with 6 – 7 cloves of garlic, minced, and about 2/3 of a yellow onion, chopped and sautes them in grape seed oil in a big iron wok. As they start to soften, she adds ground organic, free range sirloin beef she gets from Whole Foods. (Note: if you’d prefer to make this a vegetarian meal then just skip the meat — the rest of the recipe is the same.)  Once the meat is browned, she adds 5 – 6 tomatoes, which she’s chopped and removed most of the seeds. She cooks this for about 30 minutes and then adds about 1/3 cup of this amazing organic tomato paste from Italy called Bionaturae (which by the way comes in a glass jar). The she adds salt and pepper to taste, then some chopped italian parsley, oregano and rosemary, and at this point she adds about 1/2 cup of olive oil. Dr. Bennett says the grapeseed oil is better for the initial cooking because it can go to a higher temperature; the olive oil is great to add at this point because it helps thicken the sauce and it’s being used at a point that won’t expose it to high heat. Basil goes in at the very end, chopped slightly, and then again for a garnish as you serve it. She serves it over brown rice pasta. It sounds fantastic and I wish I had some right now!

Today in the Green Booth I co-hosted (along with Annie Barnes of Inspire The Change) a group of Mom Bloggers presenting ideas for No-Waste lunches. This is us: Me (Mar Vista Mom), Emily Carey of ScrappyNaps, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama, Melissa Davis of Melissa’s Food Blog, and Annie Barnes of Inspire The Change.) Elizabeth Rietz of Whining N Dining joined us later as well. We had many donated products on display (which we’ll be giving away next week — check back on both our blogs), as well as products we currently use in our own kids’ lunches. Check back Tuesday for the contest to begin! We’ll be giving away a GoodByn lunch box, a GoGreen Lunch box, a Laptop Lunch box, 3 sets of Snack Taxis, a ScrappyNaps placemat and napkin set, 2 Kleen Kanteen drink bottles (courtesy of BuyGreen), a bottle of Fruit and Veggie Clean spray from Rebel Green, a Tasty Lunch Tote by Built and 2 Rubbermaid Litterless drink bottles.

Save The Dates: The Farmer’s Market will be holding TWO festivals on the next TWO Sundays. Next Sunday (10/25) is their annual Halloween celebration and November 1st is their Day Of The Dead extravaganza. Don’t miss either one!