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Daily Frugal Tip: Grow Your Own Pineapples

Couponing 101

Head on over to The Thrifty Couple to learn how to grow your own pineapples from leftover pineapple tops. Daily Frugal Tip: Grow Your Own Pineapples is a post from Couponing 101. Here’s a cool idea! You can do this indoors or outdoors! I’m anxious to try this one out.

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5 Tips for Growing Your Own Fruit and Vegetables

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

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?

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How to Save Cash and Your Health With a Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

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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Tips On How To Save When Buying Organic Food

Couponing 101

Whole Foods also has its own coupon book and many stores will allow you to stack these coupons with manufacturer coupons (this varies by store location). Health-e Savers and Delicious Living Magazine also provide a bunch of printable organic coupons and Whole Foods also has printable store coupons on their site.

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Learning How to Eat Sustainably

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Because the production of food has such a large carbon footprint, learning to eat sustainably is a great way to limit your impact on the earth. Here are some things we have learned that you too can put into practice in your household. Millions of tones of food are thrown away in western countries every year. Reduce Waste.

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How to Save Money on Organics

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

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?

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How to Pick the Right CSA for Your Needs

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Over the last three years, my family has slowly moved away from buying most of our food at the grocery store to buying most of it directly from the farmer through CSAs. The food is fresh and tasty and often more reasonably priced than organic foods at large chain stores such as Whole Foods. How to Find a CSA.