Saving money on fresh fruit and veggies!

Right now is the best time to be stocking up on all your fresh fruits and veggies while the price is right, but what do you do with them after you buy them since you obviously won't eat it all in one week. Well I spent about about $22 yesterday and came home with several grocery bags of fresh produce. After I got home I spent a couple of hours getting a lot of my veggies and fruit ready to freeze. Here is a website that will help you freeze most of your veggies: http://www.gardenguides.com/416-freezing-vegetables.html. It is so easy to do and it even tells you how long it will keep! I'm also going to start learning canning from my wonderful mother in law who has been doing it for years. With our garden in its prime, we are starting to take in more food than we can eat so I'm giving it to lots of family and friends but I really need to be getting it ready for the winter months. Why do I freeze and do canning? Right now food is cheap so why not stock up plus in the winter they buy the fresh fruit and veggies from across the world before it is ripe then use chemicals and gasses to ripen them......yuck! I want to keep everything as natural as I can for my family and this is the best way for us along with being very cost efficient! So I can't wait to adventure into canning and make lots more yummy food we can enjoy all winter long! Stay tuned for more!

Oil spill cleanup!

As most everyone has heard about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by BP. We all know how much of the wild life its killed but it continues because they are having a hard time controlling the spilling. Well a great non profit organization Matter of Trust is trying to do their part in helping. They are taking pet and human hair and placing them into those long recycled nylons to make "booms". If you would like to help out or learn more about it, here is their website: http://www.matteroftrust.org/programs/hairmatsinfo.html. Just a little bit we can do to help out the environment and the wildlife!

Great website!

Here is a great website for finding safe beauty products:
http://www.ewg.org/whichsunscreensarebest/2009report
You can find any suntan lotion and it will tell you how safe it is. Sorry there are so many posts about this but since it is getting to be that time of year that is all I can think about right now.
This is a great website for other products as well.
Enjoy!