Food, Shopping & Storage
CAN BAN
By: SYHSAVE $225
Eat fresh fruits and vegetables instead of canned ones.
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GREAT GRAPES
By: SYHSAVE $10 Buy value-priced organic wine (or wine made from organic grapes) from a startup vineyard instead of conventional wine from a more established one. Save up to $10 or more per bottle, or over $500 per year if you buy one bottle of wine each week. Both organic wine and wine made from organic [...]
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UNBRAND
By: SYHBuy natural and organic store-brand basics, instead of name-brand products
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ICE ICE BABY
By: SYHBuy flash-frozen instead of fresh fish. Much of the fish available for sale these days is frozen at sea shortly after being caught.
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FRUITS
By: SYHTip 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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PAPER OR PLASTIC
By: SYHTRUTH OR TRASH?
Paper grocery bags are more eco-friendly than plastic ones
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COLA CUTBACK
By: SYHYou could save up to $650 per year (including CRV) by reducing your soda purchases by just two 12-packs per week.
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WINNING SEASON
By: SYHSAVE $130. Buy fruits and vegetables when they’re in season. If one-third of the produce you buy annually is out of season (i.e., you’re buying tomatoes and peaches during the dead of winter), you can save up to $130 or more per year by shifting to seasonal produce (i.e., apples in the winter, plums and [...]