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World Wisdom: Clear Drop Recycling Innovations

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Affordably priced and geared to the home user, each patent-pending Clear Drop unit addresses one specific type of recycling, making it as simple and effective as possible to stop polluting with destructive soft plastics and garbage organic waste. The OC takes any organic refuse for no more under-sink garbage disposal problems.

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Clean Your Refrigerator | Weekly Decluttering Challenge

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Last week, we cleaned and organized our pantry and food cupboards and this week, we’re going to focus on our refrigerator and freezer. If you’re participating in the Grocery Budget Challenge , February’s action step is to clean out and organize our kitchen pantry and refrigerator. Discard outdated food.

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How to Save Money on Groceries

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However, it can be an easy budget category to manage, but it takes some planning, skill, and organization. of Agriculture, a US family of 4 discards around $1500 a year on food waste. Imagine saving your family’s budget $1500 a year just by being more aware of your food waste and taking action to stop it.

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How to Slash your Grocery Spending in 31 Days

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Day 2: Organize Your Kitchen Pantry. Day 3: Organize Your Refrigerator/Freezer. Day 16 How to Stop Food Waste in the Kitchen. Day 24: How to Save on Organic Food. Keeping a tight grocery budget is giving us some wiggle room each month to put towards other financial obligations. Day 26: COMING SOON!

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Composting for Beginners

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Growing up, I remember my mom always sending me out to the composting bin with a bucket full of (what I thought was) gross bits and pieces of food waste. I love dumping buckets full of organic waste into our homemade bin. Composted material can be used as a fertilizer, a soil, and a plant food. Why Compost?

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Learning How to Eat Sustainably

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In the UK, it has been calculated that 330 kg of food is thrown out by every household each year. This rotting food accounts for 20 million tones of carbon dioxide gas each year. To reduce food waste, there are several simple strategies that you can employ: Learn creative ways to use left-overs to make delicious and nutritious meals.

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Grocery Budget Challenge | January Meeting

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Action Step 3: New this month, clean out and organize your refrigerator, freezers, and kitchen pantry. I’ll be organizing my kitchen too and (of course) blogging about it at some point. For my system, read my 11 Simple Meal Planning Tips.

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