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A big thanks to One Hundred Dollar a Month reader, Marsha, who sent me this fantastic article from the L.A. Times about smaller European refrigerators leading to less food waste. In case you don’t have time to pop over and read it, let me quick you the abridged version: Basically, the author recounts her experience Read More >>
This whole concept literally makes me giddy. It’s genius, and the people who started it should get a trophy {or at least a nice plaque}. In case you don’t have time to watch the video, City Fruit is an organization in Seattle that has tried to organize the harvest and distribution of fruit from trees Read More >>
Lowblaws, Canada’s largest grocery chain, is going to start offering imperfect selections in their produce department. According to treehugger.com, the retailer is taking steps to reduce food waste, offer lower income families affordable fresh produce options, and help farmers {who know that not every veggies grows perfectly straight, round, etc.} by selling ugly produce. They Read More >>
Lentils, pasta and rice can stretch a meal like nobody’s business. Seriously, if you’ve got water, and any one of those ingredients, you are just a few random vegetables away from a complete meal. The hard part is, everyone’s recipe will be a little different because obviously, the whole point is really not to follow Read More >>
This year I’m going to do things a little differently in regards to my weekly menu plan suggestions. This may not be the best starting point seeing how I just went shopping at Costco and stocked up on a lot of essential items {thanks to a generous $200 Costco gift card my parents gave me for Christmas} Read More >>
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