Just Desserts
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Nancy Babbitt decided to homeschool her children and lighten her work schedule to make more time for teaching. She began seeking ways to become less wasteful, more resourceful, and more self-sufficient by reading books on topics like thrift, frugality, and homesteading. Two cookbooks in particular impressed her with their simple recipes and suggestions for consuming less resources and living sustainably. These books transformed her worldview and way of life, teaching her that consuming less can allow one to live more. She now sees the "more with less" concept as achieving "Just Desserts" through food, consumption, and justice.
Just Desserts
- 1. An Autobiography by Nancy Babbitt
- 2. Image credit http://spicie.com We made the decision to home-school our children.
- 3. Image credit http://www.flickriver.com We lightened our work schedules to make time for teaching.
- 4. Image credit http://www.unmultimedia.org I began a quest to become a little less wasteful . . .
- 5. Image credit http://digital.library.unt.edu a little more resourceful . . .
- 6. Image credit http://anr.ext.wvu.edu and a lot more self-sufficient.
- 7. My new reading genres included topics such as thrift, frugality, and homesteading.
- 8. We began a new way of life.
- 9. Two books impressed me most.
- 10. A cookbook with simple recipes and suggestions on how to eat better and consume less of the worlds limited food resources.
- 11. A pattern for living with less and a wealth of practical suggestions for simple, sustainable, sane and healthy living.
- 12. Image credit http://suziesfarm.com These books have taught me another way. They opened my eyes, transformed my worldview, my value systems, and my way of life. This other way is a way of consuming less while at the same time living life more.
- 13. Image credit http://www.momsational.com The More with Less Books, by Doris Janzen Longacre, are about food, consumption, and justice.
- 14. Image credit http://www.gourmet.com Ive come to think of the more-with-less concept as Just Desserts.
- 15. I could not have known that from my goal of teaching that I would come to learn so much. ... I could not have known that a cookbook could teach so much.