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Commercialism Makes Growing Green Kids Harder

July 12, 2010

One of the hardest things about raising green kids is that we live in an increasingly commercial culture. Some problems related to eco-friendly living and our current culture include: Excess stuff is not eco-friendly but excess stuff is pushed in our culture. It’s very hard to impress eco-friendly living skills upon kids when all they [...]

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Green Product Review: CLIF CRUNCH

July 11, 2010

Review Summary: I don’t know that I’ve ever actually used the term, “Melts in your mouth” to describe food, unless literally talking about an MnM, but the other day I had no other choice. I used the term to describe the new CLIF CRUNCH bars from CLIF Bar & Company. Beware that while this new [...]

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Organic Cooking Know-How – 18 Green & Healthy Cookbook Ideas

July 11, 2010

Coming up soon I’ll be posting a big ol’ guide about how to save money on organic food. Not wanting that post to get overly bloated, I decided to post some cookbook ideas ahead of time. Having a few great cookbooks around will really help you not only cook organic and healthier meals and treats [...]

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Unscrambling Organic Eggs: Separating Facts from Fiction

July 9, 2010

Due to the lovely Time Magazine piece that appeared yesterday, I figured we should look at some real facts about organic eggs vs. cage free vs. conventional and so on. Eggs come in an array of colors, although mostly brown and white at typical grocers. Eggs also come in all sorts of packaging and with [...]

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Organic Eggs: Totally Expensive & Not Healthier

July 8, 2010

According to Time: “Like any other workers, hens turn out economy, premium and luxury products — known as factory, cage-free and organic eggs — and consumers pay accordingly. A recent survey conducted in one random city — Athens, Ga. — found factory eggs going for $1.69 per dozen, cage-free for $2.99 to $3.59, and organic [...]

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Food successes at my house

July 6, 2010

In the last post I told you about the food challenges at my house. However, we also do very well in some areas. For example… Organic and minimally processed – we buy most food in organic form and avoid junk like high fructose corn syrup and other additives in foods as much as possible. We [...]

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Food challenges at my house

July 6, 2010

In a previous post we looked at whether or not childhood obesity can be called child abuse. In that post I said we should look for some solutions to this whole childhood obesity issue that involve rewarding healthy behavior. I also noted that part of creating a healthy and green-food minded home involves taking responsibility, [...]

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Amazing Eco-Friendly Felt Food Fun for Kids

July 5, 2010

Felt food pretty much rocks. It’s safe for little ones, easy to handle and play with and a lot of felt is eco-friendly to boot. Felt food makes a great addition to your child’s play kitchen. Below are some great places to pick up eco-friendly felt food. Twinkle Kids handcrafts all products from the finest [...]

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Is childhood obesity child abuse?

July 5, 2010

In my opinion there’s a direct link between eco-friendly eating and a healthy fit body. If you truly eat green and healthy plus live green (i.e. get outside into nature and get moving) I think you and your whole family will be healthier. At my house: Today I was talking to my boyfriend Dave about [...]

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Ten ways to go green in 30 seconds or less

July 4, 2010

Think you don’t have the time to get green? You do! Here are 10 easy eco-friendly steps you can try that won’t take more than 30 seconds. Recycle your old phone book: According to Waste-Free Mail There are enough phone books created each year to measure 106,700 miles when lined up end to end; enough [...]