Category: Organic
Five Unorthodox Reasons Why You Should Grow Some Your Own Food (A Little…or a Lot)
In no particular order: When you grow your own stuff, you can tell Monsanto to shove it. In September of 2014, GMO giant Syngenta Crop Protection LLC asked the US Environmental Protection Agency to increase the legal tolerance for neonicotinoid pesticides on crops. Neonicotinoids, as you may have read, are now widely regarded as the […]
One Simple Thing: Great Coffee That Doesn’t Hurt People
Time: A few extra minutes on your next trip to the store. Cost: Costs a bit more, but worth every dime Benefits: Better taste, health, money, pollution, kindness If you don’t drink coffee, well, don’t worry about this one. But as coffee is said to be the second most valuable traded commodity in the world […]
One Simple Thing: No-Brainer Organic Bread (even gluten free!) for Less Than a Buck
Time: A trip to the thrift store. Cost: $7.00 – 10.00 investment maximum. Benefits: Health, Money, Deliciousness This is the first in what I hope is a lifelong series on small, super-quick, easy things you can do to live better, eat better, have fun, and green up your life…all at the same time. I […]
Friday Freedonist: Combining 5 Luxurious Home-Made Indulgences for a Personal Spa Day
It’s been a hard week, or to put a more positive spin on things, I should say an industrious week. Work days that stretched into the evening hours, long workouts to try to start shedding some holiday weight, and too little time left over to just sit and take a deep breath. So I thought […]
A Green Hedonist Christmas Wishlist for (Insert Year)
Well, I had some high-falutin’ ideas about publishing a big list of greenly hedonistic holiday gift ideas, but that didn’t quite pan out. So I thought I’d share my own perennial answers to the question, “What do you want for Christmas?” It may not be too late for you to spring these on someone in […]
The Grocery Store Puzzle: Local, Organic, Cruelty-Free, Non-GMO…Who Has Time for This?
I will, from time to time, stop into Costco to buy a few things. 99% of what they sell are things we will never eat, most in the processed food aisles. But they also sell great things like organic olive oil in huge quantities, healthy meat and seafood, and organic frozen produce. So on a […]
Food Stamp Challenge Day 26: What Can Be Hard
Yesterday was a busy work day, and when I finished up at the end of the day, I found myself in front of the fridge with this deep sense of deja vu: What can we eat that’s already made, or so easy I could make it (almost) with my eyes closed? Most of us have […]
Food Stamp Challenge Day 23: Fail! Looking for a Few Good Tortillas
I’ll let you in on one of our dirty little secrets: Mr. Green Hedonist and I eat a lot of tortillas. As in, a lot. Low-carbers would shudder. We love them as quesadillas, as breakfast burritos with homemade green sauce, wrapped around hummus and crunchy veggies, PB&J with seeds & raisins, you name it. The […]
Food Stamp Challenge Day 22: A Nifty Book
Now, those of you who travel in organic food circles will roll your eyes and point out this is soooo two years ago. Please, feel free. I’ll wait. Regardless of how this heretofore slipped past me, during my exploration of ways to eat well and cheaply this month, I finally stumbled over Linda Watson’s wonderful […]
Where the Rubber Hits the Road: Shopping for the Whole Foods Food Stamp Challenge
Last night, I put together the mother of all shopping lists, longer than any I can remember making in the last ten years. When I was finished organizing all of my outputs and inputs in my notebook, I had a neat little list to take to the store. Except it turned out to be anything […]
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