Prairie Eco-Thrifter
AUGUST 8, 2011
With food costs seeming to rise all the time, your weekly trip to the supermarket can take a big chunk out of your budget. If you’re sick of paying over the odds, think about producing your own fruit and vegetables. Save money on food costs. It’s a sustainable food source. Not convinced?
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
In fact a lot of the things you can do to stay green actually save you money in the process. To me it’s a no brainer; be green and save money in the process… why wouldn’t you?! Here’s some top ideas to save you money and ease your conscience: Waste Less Food.
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Prairie Eco-Thrifter
AUGUST 20, 2012
Over my many years of environmental and personal finance writing, one of the most common things I get asked for is tips on how to save money on groceries. Grow Your Own Food You don’t need a farm to grow some of your own food, you just need a small raised bed, a window box, or even just some old soda bottles hung from the fire escape.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
In my quest to be more healthy over the past couple of years, I’ve been acutely aware of the imbalance between the cost of healthy, nutritious food, and the cost of unhealthy, food-like products (non foods). In grade school, did you ever do the science experiment with flowers and food colouring?
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JULY 12, 2011
Guest Post Author Bio: Kylie Ofiu is the author of 365 Ways to Make Money. She blogs about ways to make and save money as well as what she is up to at her blog www.kylieofiu.com. 2.) Use up all your food and reduce waste. It seems the more affluent a society becomes the happier we are to throw away food.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JULY 8, 2014
My grandmother, who turned 102 earlier this year, remembers when “organic” wasn’t even a word used when talking about food. All food was natural in that it wasn’t coated with hundreds of toxic pesticides, fungicides, and any other cide you can think of. But back to the “organic” issue at hand. And we all know we don’t need more crap.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JULY 24, 2012
Fifty years ago, this was the norm; almost every backyard had a veggie patch that supplemented the food bought at a store. Then life got busy, food was more readily available and was often flown in from further afield, making varieties available out of season. Your home-grown veggies won’t have any nasty toxic residues on them.
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