Food | Shift Your Habit

BULK UP

By: SYH

SAVE $500 Buy food packaged in bulk instead of individually wrapped single-serving packages. You can save up to per year or more. Additionally you can save the planet by keeping an estimated 500 pounds worth of packaging waste out of the landfill and conserve the resources to make that packaging and the energy used to [...]

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FRUITS

By: SYH

Tip Provided By: The Green Book Try to limit purchases of canned fruit, and substitute fresh fruit whenever possible. The process involved with canning fruit is at least 10 times more energy intensive than picking fresh fruit. If every U.S. household replaced just one pound of canned or jarred fruit with one pound of fresh [...]

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CAN THOSE CANS

By: SYH

Buy frozen vegetables instead of canned ones.

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RINSE RECYCLABLES

By: SYH

TRUTH OR TRASH?
You should rinse out your recyclables before placing them in the bin

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Chew on this: You’re throwing away more than $500 cash in your kitchen every year

By: SYH

By: Elizabeth Rogers With bikini season approaching, Food Inc. on our DVD queues, and Jamie Oliver all over everything, food is definitely top of mind right now. We’re eating right, being more conscious of what we put in our bodies, and increasingly mindful of where our food comes from, because “from the grocery store” no [...]

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HOLD WATER

By: SYH

SAVE $ 200.
Instead of grabbing a diet soda, iced tea, energy drink, or bottle of flavored vitamin water the next time you feel parched, drink what’s freely available from the tap.

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