Attention Shoppers: How to Avoid GMO’s in Packaged Food

 

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What are GMO’s? Start here for a two-minute video 

How are GMO’s bad for me? Click here for video trailer of Secret Ingredients Movie   Continue reading “Attention Shoppers: How to Avoid GMO’s in Packaged Food”

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Will labeling GMO’s increase food prices?

As part of GMO Awareness Week last week, I wrote this post on the buzz about GMO’s.

The recent buzz also includes the notion that labeling GMO’s will increase food prices. There is just no evidence that proves this. Check here and hereContinue reading “Will labeling GMO’s increase food prices?”

How to Lower Your Cost for Trash Removal: My Zero Waste Home Log February 2016

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One bag of garbage and a pizza box from Pizza Bingo fundraiser at school.

In the big garbage bin in the garage, there is one kitchen size garbage bag and a pizza box. Our kitchen garbage is ¾ full.  Continue reading “How to Lower Your Cost for Trash Removal: My Zero Waste Home Log February 2016”

What’s the Buzz About GMOs?

Screenshot 2016-02-22 23.18.36Three and a half years ago, I wrote this post, where I mentioned a book that Marilyn’s husband, Steve, first read, called, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It. I thought I was informed before I read that book. Yep, boy, was I wrong! I got schooled on GMOs and wrote about it here. Since then, A LOT has happened…  Continue reading “What’s the Buzz About GMOs?”

How to Lower Your Cost for Trash Removal: Frugal and Sustainable Style! My Zero Waste Home Log for January 2016

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1 bag of garbage generated in two weeks.

I just checked the garbage can in the garage since I last went to the Fairfield Town Dump, which was two Saturday’s ago. There is only one kitchen-sized garbage bag in it. Woo-hoo! The garbage bag in the kitchen is not even half full. Continue reading “How to Lower Your Cost for Trash Removal: Frugal and Sustainable Style! My Zero Waste Home Log for January 2016”

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How to Slowly Cut the Cable Cord (Step-by-Step) and Save Hundreds of Dollars

If you want to cut the cable cord, join the club. We’ve had cable since the mid-1990s when we moved into our house. I can’t really remember how much it used to cost, but somewhere around 2011, my husband, Steve, decided we needed to do something about cable.  Continue reading “How to Slowly Cut the Cable Cord (Step-by-Step) and Save Hundreds of Dollars”