By gosh, by now many of you know of my ingredient label reading habit, my love of organics and about my love of Stonyfield (I wish Gary Hirshberg was my uncle) so when I was asked to be a groupiebe an Easy Organic Living Challenge blogger with Healthy Child Healthy World, Baby Center.com & Stonyfield, I said ‘Yes Ma’am’.
Their goals are to educate moms about the importance of organic living and to teach us all easy and affordable ways to lead an healthy lifestyle.
There will be a series of challenges (you can join in all of them of choose what most appeals to you) and the first challenge is ‘Save a dollar here, shift a dollar there.‘. This challenge really excites me as many folks tell me that they don’t even try to shop for organics as they cannot afford them. I have always suggested trying to buy the foods on the dirty dozen but there are more great ideas that make organics more affordable.
One of the steps is to ‘Eat your leftovers’. According to the USDA, 14 percent of all the food that we buy ends up in the trash, adding up to almost $600 thrown away each year. Gulp. This is our challenge as I always have simple ideas to use up the leftovers but don’t often make the meals before the food goes bad.
Well by golly, I will hear no more of this bad behavior. Off to make a frittata with our leftovers.
Won’t you join other moms and my fellow Easy Organic Living Challenge Bloggers?
Healthy Child Healthy World is a national non-profit inspiring a movement to protect our children from harmful chemicals. With a growing body of evidence linking everyday environmental contaminants to asthma, learning disabilities, obesity, cancer and more, Healthy Child translates the science and empowers parents and caregivers to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish. Visit www.healthychild.org for more information.
Lisa @ Crazy Adventures in Parenting says
We’re label obsessive, too, eating all-natural and organic all the time. How awesome is this!
Jennifer says
Aggie, my hubby finds it painful as well so what I do to address it as I buy organic for the kids and non-organic but local for the grown-ups.
Aggie says
I am always struggling with buying organic and the budget. I’ve switched to organic dairy for the most part (milk/yogurt), and also organic meat (I have cut meat out for myself and buy a lot less so that balances it out for the most part). But the organic fruits and veggies really get me. I think it’s my grocery store, selection is limited and doesn’t look fresh and the prices are high. I’d prefer to purchase local (or close to local) produce over organic, like at the farmers market. Its always such a battle of what is best to do! Will look forward to reading more on the series! Kudos to you!
(Ps…I’m obsessed with labels)
Maryea {Happy Healthy Mama} says
Thanks for the link to the babycenter group. I love learning from and sharing stories with other moms.
Jennifer says
Brooke: I usually buy a whole organic chicken (this week it was $6.75 but varies on size/sale) and the first night we eat it roasted but for the second night we usually scrape all the chicken off and make either quesadillas, sandwiches etc. Therefore, 2 meals x 4 people = 8 servings. So, heck, even if it was $10 for the chicken, that equals on $1.25 for the chicken each = score!
Brooke says
I’ll be so excited to see if you can do it. Dawn Viola of WickedGoodDinner.com once posted her entire organic shopping list for a week and she’d totally fit it into a realistic budget, but it’s sooo hard for me to make it work. Eyes peeled for your tips!
Alison @ Ingredients, Inc. says
Great post with great information. Hope to meet you one day soon