30 days to a Greener Diet - Day 2

"Think Food Quality, not Quantity,

Yes, times are tough and for many of us, dollars are getting tighter. We’ve heard the complaints — organic foods cost more. But we suggest 3 ways to make room in your budget for the most healthful real food you can find.

1. Cut back on expensive overprocessed foods that don’t pack the nutritional punch per penny that real foods do.

2. Put your money where it matters. From the money you saved on #1, splurge on the important substitutions: wild salmon instead of farm-raised, organic coffee instead of the pesticide-laden regular stuff, the perfect locally grown tomato instead of the tasteless kind. On a nutrition per serving basis, it’s actually a very, very good dollar deal.

3. Reacquaint yourself with your stove. Foods prepared at home cost less than carry-out or processed foods. Often, you’ll spend less time making dinner than you would have spent in line waiting for a carry out order.

Demand more for your hard-earned dollars. Feed yourself and your family the highest-quality foods you can afford.

Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/green-diet-organic-recipes-45012508#ixzz0efgknOJI"

I have already been doing this. I started out changing one thing at a time. I buy potatoes, boil and mash myself. I buy brown rice and cook it myself. I usually cook too much so I have some handy when I need it. I bake my own bread, still working on perfection with that. I dice, chop, and shred real vegetables bought from the organic section if possible. This winter I am trying to use more winter vegies and less salad stuff. I would love to have a greenhouse so I can grow salads longer in the fall and earlier in the spring. My mother actually made one once. It was low to the ground and she used old glass windows over a brick frame. She started green peppers and other stuff early. I could do something about the greenhouse thing if I could get my brain to work properly.

I drank a glass of merlot last night. Will have to add (organic) wine to my grocery list.

I made a short reasonable list of chores to focus on today. Chores that will make my home a better more pleasant place for my family to live.