Welcome to Eat Drink Better: Sustainable Food for a Healthy Lifestyle
Lets face it; we all cut back on ‘healthy’ foods when we don’t have money in the bank. Our priorities are kids, gas, rent, bills, pets and survival, not healthy food. As a vegetarian on a limited income I’ve had to come up with new ways to be healthy and eat well. What can you do when your budget can only cover ramen noodles, mustard and peanut butter?
This comic is by Dan Piraro of Bizarro Comics, and I think there’s a lot of truth to that sentiment! Of course, there are cases where folks need good, old fashioned medicine, but there are so many diseases that we could prevent with good, old fashioned healthy food. I’m lookin’ at you, heart disease and type 2 diabetes!
When you purchase wine from the Cellar Angels winery partners, including favorite sustainable wineries such as Grgich Hills and Humanitas, you get to select a charity they will support with 10% of proceeds.
Rather than packing a lunch loaded up with animal products like meat, cheese, and milk, try upping the health factor and adding more plant-based foods to your kids’ packed lunches.
I made this autumnal and filling recipe for a dinner party last week. Rather than stuffing the peppers then roasting them, I made the filling and peppers separately, then stuffed them, so everything was balanced and cooked to perfection. I have to say, they were *really* good, so give it a try. Ingredients: Olive oil [...]
If The Cornucopia Institute really wants to “clean up” the organic industry, they should start by demanding routine field testing.
It’s that time of the year again…pumpkin time! Spice up your seeds with these new ideas!
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Hi there! I'm Becky Striepe, a green crafter and vegan foodie living in Atlanta, Georgia with my husband and two cats. My mission is to make eco-friendly crafts and vegan food accessible to anyone who wants to give them a go.
Jennifer Kaplan is the founder of VineCrowd.com and the author of Greening Your Small Business (November 2009, Penguin Group (USA)). She is adjunct faculty in marketing at Goldengate University and is also totally stoked have been named one of The 16 Women You Must Follow on Twitter for Green Business.
Jessi Stafford is a 20-something attempting to be a vegan on a recent graduate's budget. She currently writes for Vegan Mainstream and The Next Great Generation and graduated in 2009 from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Tanya Sitton is an ecovegavore, messy chef, green girl, food revolutionary, and general free-thinkin' rabble-rouser. Hi!
Who is Urban Artichoke? I'm Patricia Larenas, a writer and dedicated gardener living in Silicon Valley, doing my part to heal the planet one garden at a time. I recently left my career in the tech sector to dig in the dirt full time- and write about it.
