Thanks Tiffanie for the great T-shirt idea!

Chickin-T's for REAL FOOD!

CHECK OUT OUR COOL T's FOR REAL FOOD! Order one today to wear to your EAT-IN!

FRONT & BACK V.1




FRONT & BACK V.2

EAT-IN goes BIG!

BIG NEWS! Just found out that Josh Viertel, the President of Slow Foods USA is coming to Atlanta to EAT-IN! Over 290 Eat-in's are planned throughout the USA and he's coming to ours... If you can come on Sunday Night to the one we're hosting with Cooking for Monkeys @ the Closing Picnic of the Decatur Book Festival... Please DO! If you can make it to Piedmont Park on Labor Day, you can meet him there. EAT-IN PEEPS!




DETAILS IF YOU CAN'T READ THEM!
We’re expecting you for dinner on Sunday Night 9/6/09. 5:30p. Meet us on the square in Decatur behind the Old Courthouse. Take MARTA...It’s Smarta! Bring a great picnic dinner that you’ve prepared from some fabulous foods that you purchased locally from a Farmers Market on Saturday and your blanket! Or purchase a plate for $10 from Southern Foodways Alliance Wear a “recycled” T-shirt. You and your chickins can sport a cool T-shirt to show support for getting REAL FOOD into SCHOOL LUNCHES. (We’ve got some nifty ones ready to ship @ www.zazzle.com/motherhen1* or you could make your own!) Get your picture made with THE SIGN! You’ll see when you get there! AND... we’re honored to host the Big Kahuna of Slow Food USA! Josh Viertel will be in the house. Make sure to come out and show him how Decatur ROCKS for REAL FOOD in Schools! & stick around for Closing Picnic music by Sweet AlizAbeth. Don’t miss it, BEEEE there!

Fall Excitement

Anyone that knows me knows that Fall is my most favorite time of the year, the cool days and crunchy leaves underfoot make it an irresistable season to fall in love with and it is also the time to get your cool season garden underway. Lots of herbs love the cool weather and parsley is one of them, plants lots now and you will also be well underway for the beginnings of a great Butterfly garden in the spring!! You may notice your parsley disappear overnight because caterpillars are tenacious eaters but who doesn't love a beautiful butterfly! Plus you can't beat fresh parsley throughout the wintertime. Broccoli, cauliflower, spinach and lettuce just to name a few, all love the cooler weather so don't let your vegetable garden sit empty this fall put some plants in it!! There are many plants and seeds to choose from, so pick your favorites and some not so favorites(you can't say you don't like it if you've never tried it) and dig in the dirt with your little ones!
Mums signify that fall has finally arrived but please don't just toss them when all the flowers are spent. They are perennials in Georgia which means they come back year after year and they don't need full sun. So dig a little hole and put them in the ground after you've enjoyed their time with your scarecrow and they will come back to see you next year....

Happy Harvesting and enjoy this unbelievable August we are having.....
The Plant Chick

EAT-IN FLIERS & ADVOCACY SHEETS!

The Slow Food USA "Time for Lunch" campaign & Eat-In's are a few short weeks away. If you are in the Decatur/Atlanta area and would like to post some fliers! Here they are...


If you'd like to let you little chickins learn how to advocate for themselves and ask their Legislator to "please give me real food" you can print this flier / follow the simple directions.

Check out the EVENTS tab on our Chickin Feed Facebook Page for all the details on our Eat-In.

REAL FOOD TUNE!

Check out the latest Chickin Tune!



CREDITS:
Song & Photos by Mother Hen.
Pecked up in the Chickin Shack.
Crowin' by Nichole Lupo & Katherine Moore
Extra Scratchin' by Seth from Seeds of Nutrition.

Thanks! Katherine, Nichole & Seth!

WELCOME PLANT CHICK!

Yeah! We have a posting from our Chickin Coop. The newest addition is Christena - a mother and very avid gardener. We met at the Georgia PTA convention where she was helping out with Farmer D's fantastic booth. She will be blogging for us & providing some great helpful hints about keeping your chickins more active and healthy by keeping their hands dirty!

Welcome Plant Chick!

First time post for Plant Chick

Hi fellow good food lovers! Nothing brings me more pleasure than strolling into my gardens and picking food for the day or harvesting some wonderful flowers to create an easy arrangement to brighten my home. Unexpected things are always happening around our household and as our garden and extra large yard always keeps us busy we relish in the blessings that we have.... Good food for all!
Tomato and cucumber salad is my most favorite dish this thyme of the year, a little bit of salt and balsamic vinegar and the thinnest red onion in the world and it is perfect... my chickins LOVE it and they love it most because they grew it all by themselves....

Happy Harvesting....
Plant Chick

Chickin Monkeys | EAT-IN | DBF!

Chickin Feed & Cooking For Monkeys (Pam Galencamp's terrific blog & bento boxes) will team up to exhibit at the Decatur Book Festival over Labor Day Weekend (September 5&6).

If you've never been to the DBF - it's fantastic...some of my kids favorite authors will be there including John Scieszka author of my daughter's favorite series that includes Science Verse! And I just Lulu scream when I said that the author of THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX is going to be there.

I think this year they've blown the top off 'cause I just found out that Abdullah the Butcher will be there! My brother's favorite wrestler growing up! (Did you see him eat that aerosol can of oven cleaner?)

Check out their website to see all that is going on!




AND WE ARE HOSTING AN EAT-IN on Sunday Night - September 6th. Come bring your picnic dinner and rally round the Chickin-Monkey booth. We'll be sharing a meal and letting the good folks up in Washington DC know that we'd like them to support the CHILD NUTRITION ACT!

GET YOU LITTLE CHICKINS IN ON THE FUN by having them send their own letter to congress. Chickin Feed has put together a REAL FOOD • REAL FUN • REAL ADVOCACY sheet so that the chickins can send word to congress too! They are never too young to advocate for REAL FOOD!

PARENTS: just PRINT this sheet and have your little chickins fill it out then send it in to your legislator!

TEACHERS – Have your class send them in! (If you cannot print from this .jpg just mail leslie@chickinfeed.com to get a .pdf copy!)

CREATIVITY IN SPADES... GAINESVILLE FLA ROADTRIP REPORT

Mo' Hen and the chickins roadtripped to Gainesville, FL recently. We visited a phenomenal restaurant called SATCHEL'S that we are 100% sure should be "Chickin Feed Certified" 'cause it had really great, fresh salads / pizza and an OVERDOSE OF CREATIVE FUN FOR THE KIDS! Somebody has really found their bliss in this wacked-out land of kitsch. Check out some of the creative ways that they have turned some real trash into treasures!

MOTHER HEN'S FEED STORE!

Ever wanted some "reward" stickers for your little chickins. How about having them "good choice" their way to a cool Chickin T-shirt, Apron, or heck – they might even like a Chickin Trucker's Cap? (Then again, you might want to save it for the Rooster)...Mother Hen's having some fun with a cool site called Zazzle!

ACTIVE CHICKINS!!!

Here's to getting chickins active at a young age! Hilarious...a little creepy, but too funny!

CHECK OUT EVIAN'S ROLLER BABIES!

HOORAY FOR PARFAITS FOR BREAKFAST!

Summer is hot! and no one wants to fuss with cooking in the morning. We had a great breakfast this morning. Frozen cherries and blueberries layered with some no-fat greek yogurt and drizzled with a little honey and granola! Make sure to put it in a clear glass so that your little chickins can see the layers... SO PRETTY AND SO YUMMY!

REAL FOOD QUIZ...

Hey kiddies...admit it. Have you eaten all of the REAL FOODS that are shown on the left? IF YOU CAN IDENTIFY all the foods that are scrolling through at the top of our blog, Mother Hen will send you a little gift...

IF YOU'VE EATEN all the foods in the pictures then I'm really proud of you and I'm going to send something to the adults that fed it to you!

Drop me a line when you have your lists compiled! leslie at chickinfeed dot com

Want to sign up for our FEED MILL e-mails? We send out updates and COUPONS too, mom!

A MANGO AND A CARROT WALK INTO A BLENDER

It's HOT and we're a little woozy.

I thought we'd try to make some CARROT / MANGO smoothies today. Carrots / Frozen Mango chunks / Plain LowFat Yogurt / OJ... Blendy Blendy and then pour into popcicle molds - or muffin tins if you don't have molds...

We'll let you know how it goes!

TRY SOMETHING UNTRADITIONAL IN A COLD FREEZER POP!

LISTEN UP!

Terry Gross has an always intriguing line up of folks who speak about all types of different topics on her show on NPR. Last night she featured a fellow that talked about overeating and why we do it. Shockingly enough...the triggers that make us overeat are the foods that aren't good for us to begin with! Please take a minute to listen to this great piece which features some great ideas for how we can make a "critical perceptual shift that will allow us to see foods for what they are" and how to change our "conditioned hyper-eating."

*** Former FDA commissioner David Kessler warns that sugar, fat and salt can hijack our brains and cause us to overeat. In his new book, The End of Overeating, he describes the way the food industry works with the advertising industry to create the food cravings that are so hard to resist.***

After doing some snooping around to find out more about Mr. Kessler, I happened upon a publisher of his RODALE, Inc. that had some other great resources on their website including a book that every parent should probably own called Eat This, Not That! for Kids! (in addition to your Chickin Feed Primer! of course). There are some shocking facts like how many calories, fat and sodium are in a banana walnut muffin!...Use your own judgement about which things actually constitute REAL FOODS...

Good Stuff Peeps!!!

WHAT DO A HEN AND A POSSUM HAVE IN COMMON?

Well for one thing...they might inhabit the same territory. As in a possum might sneak into the chicken coop to suck a couple of eggs down for a late night snack.

And it has been heard about town that Mother Hen is actually running for the title of Possum Queen! "What is the world coming to," you ask?

It's all very easy to explain, officer... See there is this contest for the much coveted title of Possum Queen. The contest is the brainchild of some smarty-pants PR person years ago that thought it would be the perfect way to raise money for the spry folks at the St. Paul Golden Age Center.

Well, it worked and these days, everyone wants that darn crown! My stiffest competition is coming from one of our favorite writers, Hollis Gillespie. She'll be tough to beat but it's all for a great cause. Come out & enjoy the fun if you have a minute The Festival is this Sunday 5/17. There will be food... Hopefully NOT possum.

Votes are $1.00 - You can donate online just follow the St. Paul GAC link above & scroll down.

Pulizter in the Hood!

Why did the Chickin cross the road? To congratulate our neighbor who just won the Pulitzer Prize! Way to go Doug!

HOW TO BUILD A HEALTHY CHICKIN – BLOG SHARE...

Nutri-a-licious. Just found this mom's blog about healthy eating. Check out this great page of articles about childhood obesity. Then go back to the home page & read from there.

If you have suggestions you'd like to share about How to Build Healthier Chickins! let me know... email: Mother Hen (leslie@chickinfeed.com)

Like to visit Chickens?

Chicks in the City Tour...Really cool tour of chicken (with an "e") coops in and around the east side of Atlanta. Save the Date!