Save Money, Save Time, Save Your Health, Save the World
Step One: Plan
Meal planning is the foundation of all other cost-saving strategies. Planning your meals at least one week ahead can save you so much. You no longer buy ‘convenience’ foods (prepackaged, processed). You can purchase in bulk more often than not. You can take advantage of sales and seasonal surpluses.
Step Two: “Build” a Pantry
Taking advantage of seasonal surpluses and store sales you can shore up on supplies. When our local market has a sale, we bulk up on healthful goods.
Step Three: Buy Seasonally, Buy Locally
Plan your meals to take advantage of seasonal surpluses. You’ll be wealthier and healthier for it.
These three steps will save you time and money and will have the benefit of increasing the nutritional value of your diet. By living these three steps you will also be contributing to the global solution: less driving, less packaging, less shipping, less waste.
global food crisis
The front page Washington Post article this last Sunday has made me seriously think about the things I can do to minimize my impact in this area. One thing that I'm thinking a lot about, which you neglected to mention, is the virtues of eating lower on the food chain (as well as eating locally and less processed foods, as you suggest). A lot more energy and food is diverted to feed livestock, in particular, for our consumption. I think we'd have a healthier planet, healthier diets, and less strain on food and energy sources if we all ate a little lower on the food chain.
Eating lower on the food chain
is definitely best for our, and our planet's, health. Thank you for reminding us.
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