{"id":13221,"date":"2013-02-21T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymouse.com\/?p=13221"},"modified":"2013-02-21T12:49:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T17:49:03","slug":"honey-sweet-potato-biscuits-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/21\/honey-sweet-potato-biscuits-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey Sweet Potato Biscuits: ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soft, pillowy biscuits are touched with a slight sweetness from syrupy honey and the distinct orange of sweet potatoes baked in.<\/em>
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In that waking moment between the dream world behind your eyelids and reentering consciousness, your body becomes aware. Slowly, the darkness fades as your mind crawls across your body, searching, and you start to feel again. A small electrical current reaches your limbs, exploring where they are at present, noticing the small pain on your toe from where you stubbed it the day before, readjusting your arms to support your neck.
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This waking is not all pleasant, though, as there is an all-consuming pit at the top of your stomach. It’s pushing its way towards your throat, making it difficult to swallow down the lump of nothing that resides there at the back. The more you lie there, waiting, the larger the ache becomes until it feels as though it could consume you. The hollow emptiness seems to be sucking in on itself, causing you to curl further into yourself until numbness sets in, dulling the ache and clouding your vision.
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There are some things I hope my children never experience. True hunger is one of them, the kind of hunger that is all-encompassing, that becomes a part of your very being it is so interwoven with the simplest moments. They don’t know what it is to not have enough, nor have they experienced what it means to have a lack of options, the dinner menu rotating weekly, the lunch box items changed at a whim, nutrition planned out through variety.
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\nIn 2010 there were 925 million people in the world who could be classified as hungry or malnourished, whether from lack of food and calories altogether or from deficiencies in nutrients. That is over 13% of the world’s population who are fighting daily just to survive due to lack of food. Here in the United States, we could feed all 50 million Americans who don’t have enough food simply by reducing food waste by one third<\/a>. That means throwing away a third less than we do currently.
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\nToday is Sweet Potato Day<\/a>. ONE<\/a> has chosen this seemingly simple root vegetable because it is packed with important nutrition and is easy to grow in several places around the world. One cup of sweet potatoes provides 769% of the daily value of vitamin A, which helps the body when fighting disease.Vitamin A deficiencies can cause loss of sight and growth retardation, and according to the World Health Organization vitamin A deficiency affects between an estimated 100 to 140 million children. Clearly, the sweet potato seems to be an appropriate choice in the fight against world hunger. Here’s how you can help: Read and learn more about food, nutrition, and world hunger<\/a>, and then sign the petition asking for world leaders to make it a priority.
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\nIf you’ve never had sweet potato biscuits before, consider a potato loaf. You know, that pale-looking white bread with the flour dusted across the top, the insides seemingly softer than bread should naturally be. We’re doing that to our biscuits, only with sweet potatoes. The result is an excessively fluffy biscuit, a perfect pillow to place a pat of butter and a drizzle of honey.
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