The saga continues! but I’ve had some successes. I am doing much better with food waste although it is far from zero. This week we found some ancient Ritz crackers. I have no idea where they came from, when we purchased them or why. They’re not favorites of either of us. AND they were very [...]
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Wastefree Wednesday
Posted in environment, sustainability on February 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thoughtful Tuesday
Posted in environment, simple living, sustainability, Uncategorized on February 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I had a kind of fit about simplifying my life. I was upset by the notion of limiting my choices, and the fear of not having ‘enough’. I suspect this is a very common response to change, especially when the goal is to eliminate things. I’ve always felt that somehow cutting back, doing [...]
Wastefree Wednesday
Posted in environment, simple living, sustainability on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was going to blog and have pictures of this weeks waste, but we’re off-line at home again, so am working on my lunch to get this out. The changes I made last week are making a difference. I put all my vegetables in reusable containers and this has really cut the number of plastic [...]
Food on Friday
Posted in environment, fabulous food, green, sustainability on September 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t add the ‘fabulous’ to the title of today, because I want to talk about food waste, and food planning, not meal planning, although that is part of it. Food planning is a process of looking at what you have and creating edibles using what is at hand. Now, this was typically what families [...]
Thrifty Thursday
Posted in environment, green, sustainability on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m on a roll! After looking at my garbage yesterday, I decided that there had to be a solution for the vegetable sacks that end in the trash because they are too yucky to reuse. I’ve been frustrated by how often my lettuce and spinach ends up in the compost without even a brief usage, [...]
Wastefree Wednesday
Posted in environment, green, simple living, sustainability on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What’s in your garbage this week? Since I’ve been paying a lot of attention to what I discard to the land fill, I have noticed my garbage doesn’t contain much except plastic. My food scraps including dairy and meat waste goes either to my own compost bins and worm bins or to the city’s compost [...]
Thrifty Thursday
Posted in environment, green, simple living, sustainability, the compact on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With all the garden needs, and the produce to be put up, I haven’t had much time to think about thrifty ideas, but with most of that behind me, it’s time . Of course, preserving the harvest is definitely a thrifty activity. I notice that many at the pea patch let their harvest rot in the [...]
Thoughtful Tuesday
Posted in environment, simple living, sustainability on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, I was talking about goals, and today I want to talk about what makes a goal a good goal for you. We all have goals. Sometimes they are vague like ‘I want to be kinder’; sometimes, they are dreams like ‘I want to become famous as a …”; and sometimes they set us up to [...]
Sustainable Sunday
Posted in environment, green, simple living, sustainability on September 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven” the Bible via the folk song of the same title. I am sitting here at my computer looking out over my yard and garden. It is a beautiful fall day, intermittently threatening rain, but surprising me with sun instead. I knew [...]
Thrifty Thursday
Posted in crafting, environment, sustainability, the compact on August 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Quilting is one of the original thrifty activities. The frugal woman would save all scraps of fabric, whether left over from making dresses, nightgowns and shirts, or the usable scraps of fabric when a garment was no longer serviceable. She would sew these into squares and the squares into tops. Old worn out blankets or [...]
