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Laina@abundantfoodsavings

lallen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:32:19 -0600

Laina@abundantfoodsavings

Where do I sign up for the Brownie of the Month Club?

ewillse — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:37:01 -0600

Oh right. Season of giving. Not getting. Heh.

These are great ideas- some familiar and some new discoveries.

- E

elizabethwillse.wordpress.com

Freelance Book Reviewer

Great article

michellebrownlow — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:02:11 -0500

I agree that it is ridiculously expensive to eat healthy. I am all for saving money but I think a couple coupons at WalMart would leave more in the bank than $5 off @ Whole Foods. But, if you have the money to spend there - GO FOR IT! I would love to be able to shop there exclusively!

Here is a GREAT article about saving money

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Michelle Kemper Brownlow

http://michellekemperbrownlowwrites4kids.blogspot.com

Whole paycheck

fredricka — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:06:18 -0500

Thanks for the coupon.

Fredricka

great find!

stellar725 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:58:21 -0500

wow this is a great giveaway. this helps a lot. I go to WF for groceries.i hope this will be till the holidays. =)

Stellar725

Downloadable coupons

joncmac@nc.rr.com — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:50:25 -0500

Coupons should defintely be used in todays slowing economy. And they are so easy to get and download now. This site gave some links to get some, http://www.needhelppayingbills.com/html/how_to_save_on_grocery_bills.html

does anyone have a better link as well? Thanks in advance.

Perfect timing!

Liz Rizzo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:29:45 -0500

I agree Whole Foods can be pricy, but I'm planning an excursion for some special ingredients to make these cookies from 101 Cookbooks:

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/animal-cracker-cookies-recipe.html

And for tempeh for this:

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/tlt-sandwich-recipe.html

I suspect I may start going there semi-regularly for specific ingredients.

Liz Rizzo

I blog at Everyday Goddess.

Whole paycheck

BrownImani — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:17:46 -0500

Whole paycheck is right. I have to agree with you on that. But for the few items that I buy there two or three times a month it is so worth it. I cannot find rice milk at my local grocery store. Or organic raw honey, or toxic and hormone free eggs or chicken ! I want my little girls to be little girls as long as possible. They have enough female issues to keep them busy until natural puberty kicks in thank you very much ! I appreciate the coupon. Any little bit goes a long way.

Might Use It for A Treat But No Longer Feel Welcomed At WF/WP

Gena Haskett — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:15:46 -0500

I haven't been in WF/WP in almost six months. It was not intentional that I stayed away it was that it was too easy to have maybe six items that rang up $20-$30 or more.

I shop frugal no matter where I go but WF/WP is tough. I love fresh baked bread $3.5 to $4.

There is a Kombucha drink that I use when I'm sick $4.

I have learned to stay far away from the olive case. Assorted veggies $5 dollars if they aren't on clearance.

The meat of the day that will barely make it into two meals $6 to $8 if I'm lucky.

Blood Orange flavored sorbet. Not exactly healthy but I like the taste of Blood Orange juice. $4.5 to $5.

Any other store I walk out with 10 items. And then to be humbled at check out. Other people paying $250 to $300 for groceries. And not all of them are buying organic or what could be called remotely healthy.

Folks around my way like Trader Joe's better. TJs give you a sporting chance.

Gena - Out On The Stoop

whole food or whole paycheck?

yumyumhere — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:34:27 -0500

Thanks for the coupon!

But i still don't think the coupon is gonna allevate the pain of grocery-shopping at whole food. To make healthy and sustainble living possible, we need to support more local produce stores. We don't need fancy shopping environment or waxed apples to go green and healthy, especially in this kind of economy. Whole Food is a very disappointing attempt of healthy living and green products.

airplane travel

Mama Bird — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:04:21 -0500

You know, it's funny, I keep forgetting and bringing my (BPA free) Nalgene bottle filled with water to the security checkpoint. And then end up having to guzzle it. I try to bring sippy cups for the toddler and empty bottles for the rest of us (one for each) and then get fountain drinks from an airport vendor -- you know, a huge iced coffee for mom, a juice if they've got it for the kiddoes, or water (usually they have a water thingy right next to the soda at most food places). But I am with you -- I don't drink the water on airplanes - they warn you about even washing your hands in that stuff - so I definitely will go bottled if I have to. Not a perfect system.

SurelyYouNest.com

What about water when traveling?

GreenMoms — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:05:30 -0500

I do the Kleen Kanteen too. I fill up everyone's at home and we take them on the road all the time...everytime we go anywhere. Problem is, when we do air travel, we can't bring those lovely steel containers on a plane. How do you avoid buying them at the airport? Do you just drink out of the airport water fountains and wait to get water on the plane? I guess that would work, but I don't trust water fountains not to be havens for nasty bacteria from everyone and ther dog drinking from them...especially in an airport.
Our last trip, we ended up buying some bottled water in the airport because we had a 3 hour layover. Then, we saved those bottles and re-filled them at our destination and brought those back with us on our way home.

GreenMoms, Melinda

www.GreenMomsCoastside.com

Green On! Your Children Will Thank You For It.

Empty water bottles are polluting the Amazon

Diane MacEachern — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:26:03 -0500

Diane MacEachern www.biggreenpurse.com Diane@biggreenpurse.com

I hate the thought of wasting two gallons of perfectly good water for every one gallon bottled (yep - that's right). The conservationist in me thinks it's just stupid to throw away something that should never have been made in the first place. And I hate to see plastic bottles washing up in places they don't belong! I just returned from a trip to the Amazon basin in Bolivia and the Sacred Valley in Peru. The only thing floating on the Amazon besides dead logs and an occasional cayman? You guessed it: discarded plastic water bottles. And what's the last thing you'd want to find on the banks of the Rio Urubamba, the "sacred" river that leads to Machu Picchu? Right again: mounds of plastic bottles that wash into the river during every rainy season. Of course, when the only clean water in a country is bottled water, what are people supposed to do? There's no excuse here in the U.S. But developing countries are in a real bind. Peruvians told me that none of their water is safe to drink. If they don't buy bottled water, they have to boil their tap water to protect against cholera. Building water treatment facilities to purify drinking water would be a great way to protect public health as well as the environment. But that would cost the government money, wouldn't it? As it is, Peruvians (and others in developing countries) bear the burden of finding clean drinking water - then they, like the rest of us, bear the burden of cleaning up the mess that bottled water creates.

Ditching Bottled Water Gives Me an Excuse

Green Bean Dreams — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:52:21 -0500

To invest in a super cute, uber-eco looking Kleen Kanteen! I bought the cutest pink one cuz a girl's still gotta have style.

Michelle

www.greenbeandreams.blogspot.com

Drink from the tap and urge Clorox to recycle BRITA!

bethfly — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:52:56 -0500

I hear the laments of folks who live in areas that don't have such great tap water. They may need to purchase a water filter to give up the bottle.

For those who choose Brita, be sure and sign the petition to urge Clorox, maker of Brita in North America, to create a take-back recycling program for its filters, as is already being done in Europe!

Visit the Take Back The Filter campaign: http://www.takebackthefilter.org to sign the petition and send us your used filters!

BTW, get your water tested first. You may not need any filter. In our house, we drink straight from the tap, with the occasional spritz from the Soda Club CO2 cannister.

Beth Terry http://www.fakeplasticfish.com