Fresh Squeezed Living

Food: Locally Known Helps You Save Some Green on Your Next Salad

Is your wallet feeling a bit ill over the soaring gasoline prices? If you are like many others, to keep your wallet off life support, you’ve had to make some adjustments in your discretionary spending habits. Maybe you’ve redirected some funds from one area of your budget to cover the higher costs for necessities.

Did you give up your daily Starbucks designer coffee drink? Do you find you are making less visits to your local movie theatre? Maybe you’ve decided to head over to your local public library to check out those bestsellers.

If you are like me, you haven’t come upon much relief to your wallet at your local supermarket either. The unexpected pricing trends across a variety of categories prove that higher costs for corn, ethanol and gasoline are affecting us on so many different levels.

Organic Eating: Easy & Affordable Ways To Add Organic Foods

If you are like many in the Fresh Squeezed Living (FSL) community, you have been hoping to discover some terrific, easy & affordable ideas to help you add organic foods to your diet.  Well today is your lucky day!

Switching to organic is tough for many who don’t want to pay higher prices or give up their favorite foods. But by choosing organic versions of just a few foods that you eat often, you can increase the percentage of organic food in your diet without big changes to your shopping cart or your spending, writes Tara Parker-Pope.

Enjoy!

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Organic Eating: It Is Written, Let There Be Healthy Bread

Have you heard about the bread that has been created based on a biblical scripture?  The reference scripture is Ezekiel 4:9. “Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.” King James Version

I discovered the bread appropriately named Ezekiel 4:9® a few months ago.  After just one slice, I quickly added it to my list of favorites. Ezekiel 4:9® bread is a very healthy  and tasty, Organic Sprouted 100% Whole Grain Flourless Bread made by Food for Life.   

Organic Eating: How To Eat Healthy and Organic For $7 Per Day

Have you heard a statement such as "eating organically is cheaper in the long term because of the health care costs you'll avoid later on?" While that is indeed true, many become mildly irritated in hearing such because in the real world, only actual currency is accepted at Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe's, not Longevity Logic bucks. So what should you do if you want to eat organic food, but are on a modest budget?  Today you will discover some great ideas and find the answers you want.

Organic Eating: Are Organic Products More Nutritious?

There seems to be quite a number of opinions going around when the subject of organic vs. conventional products is raised.  The variety of opinions even among experts often causes greater confusion for the average consumer.  There are more products than ever before in the marketplace.  It is reasonable to expect that more products will continue to flood the market in the coming years.  With the expanding options in the aisles of grocery stores, we face the ongoing challenge of making a purchasing decision. The process of choosing wisely is just not easy. Many are asking how am I to choose?