Want to save your wallet at the grocery store? Then dont worry about buying these 15 produce items organic. “The Clean 15″ is conventional produce with limited pesticides. Lets get shopping!
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The Dirty Dozen
The 12 fruits and veggies you should be buying organic.
With over-whelming research and publications about organic foods, it is difficult to ignore the benefits. Among other benefits, buying and eating organic reduces the amount of chemicals you place in your body and it’s better for the environment from the lack of pesticides. However, there are two main things that hinder my organic eating. 1.) Organic produce isn’t always in large supply. 2.) Lets just face it, eating organic is expensive.
Thankfully, I found the “Dirty Dozen.” The Dirty Dozen has become important in my grocery lists and has helped my wallet on weekly shopping trips. The D.D. is a list of 12 items to help you buy organic, healthy foods. It was compiled by the USDA after washing produce with the mother of all washing systems. The produce that made the list still [...]
Fall Foods: Roasted Veggies Recipe + Fitness: Circuit Training
It’s fall…. even though where I live it doesn’t feel like it! I cannot complain though because its absolutely perfect weather, especially in the evenings. I love taking walks at night when its warm out! And I am not looking forward to freezing my butt off soon…. but it is what it is.
Cooler weather allows us to cook up some warm, yummy stuff! We can use the oven and not have to worry about heating up the whole house – in fact we like that part of it! Or you can use a handy Toaster Oven
Here’s how you do it:
2 cups Vegetables, my favorite are: [...]
You Are What You Eat – Guide to Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs)
There are many different diets out there. Diets to lose weight, diets to watch your sodium intake, diets that are good for your heart, diets for anti-again and many more. There are also diets that are more lifestyle eating plan specific such as raw food diet, vegan diet, and eating clean diet. I have been really interested in eating clean lately. With all the artificial flavors, colors, additives and chemicals being put in our foods, its really got me worried. Then we come to how our food is processed and sold to us and that makes me worry even more! That brings me to GMO (genetically modified organism) foods and non-organic foods.
GMO’s are foods that have been altered using genetic engineering techniques. There are many questions raised these days on wether or not they are safe to eat and many protests [...]
