Go Green Easily: Organic or Not?

That isn’t exactly a clear picture of the situation. Organic foods are certified in different ways to stand for different qualities. Many foods deemed organic are grown in conditions that still harm the land they’re grown on and many are packaged inappropriately.

Just because a product flashes the word “Organic” on it doesn’t make it worth automatically buying. Certain plants are naturally bug-proof and get non-toxic treatments that make them invalid for the “organic” label. It’s not too difficult to go green easily within the big Organic Debate.

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Go Green Easily: Got Friends, Buy Bulk

Go green easily and buy in bulk with friends at a grocery warehouse.

You save time, money and fuel just for starters. Most grocery warehouse stores charge $45-50 for a yearly membership and allow up to three people to be on the main member’s non-corporate card. When split three-ways it comes out to a little over $16.00 per person to join.

The average savings buying in bulk from these kinds of stores is 33 to 38% on fresh vegetables and fruits, up to 43% on fresh meats or poultry or fish and up to 55% on canned goods and staples such as flour, rice, sugar and coffee.

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Go Green Easily: Reuse Glass Jars

Go green easily by reusing glass jars from sauces, olives, jams and even spices.

Instead washing jars out and throwing them in the recycling or, say it isn’t so, the garbage, use them again and again. It’s so easy to soak the label off, grab masking tape (it peels off easily) and relabel them for left-over soup or anything you can think of, really. You go to a warehouse grocery store and see a gallon of artichoke hearts but what to do with that large jar after the goodies are gone stumps you.

Put your flour in it to keep bugs out or use it for the jumbo bag of coffee beans you’ve been wanting to put in the freezer. Glass freezes well as long as you don’t subject it to extreme temperature changes and leave room for the food to expand while it’s freezing.

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