Showing posts with label Recycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recycle. Show all posts

Friday, July 11, 2008

Gorgeous "Green" Grocery Bags

Shopping for groceries is either something you love or hate.  Personally, I love to grocery shop.  Especially when I find a good, organic, healthy, pretty place to do so.  Sprouts (found only in California, Arizona, Colorado & Texas) is my newest love.  It is similar to Whole Foods or (for those of you in the Northeast...) Wegmans.  
It is such a treat to walk around the produce section, choosing fresh herbs, crisp vegetables and ripe fruit.  My favorite aisle might be the dairy...milk, heavy cream, gourmet coffee creamer...yum.  I love to see what fancy cheese or pasta I can purchase.  I feel inspired to come home & try something new.  

Maybe I am crazy, but it feels good to walk out of the store with my food in reusable shopping bags, rather than a cart full of plastic bags.  Even my husband commented how nice our food seems coming out of those bags.  Silly how the small things in life can make such a difference in the quality of our homes and our life experience.  
Now, almost every grocery store that you go to offers reusable shopping bags at a low cost.  (Sprouts charges $.99 a bag.)  I have a few bags from Sprouts, but I was thinking that I need a cuter one, so I went online to check things out.  I found some great bags:  

These bags are all from reusablebags.com.   They are called Happybags and are made of durable upholstery weight cotton in the USA.  They are "available in colorful patters and prints sure to turn heads."  Order 1 for $19.95 or order 2 for $18.95/each.  














Friday, June 27, 2008

Waste Not, Want Not...

One of my favorite lines is, "Waste not, want not." My husband is forever making fun of me for saying it. 
The reason I love it is because I hate throwing things away. I hate when food goes bad. I really just hate waste. Recycling, reducing & reusing are concepts that make me smile.
BUT, I also love stylish, new, pretty things. 
That is why I fell in love with this portable composter. Beauty meets function.   
When I was growing up, we used to save fruit & vegetable peels and other food waste. Several times a week, one of the 5 of us kids would get the job of taking the food to the compost pile by the raspberry bushes.
I want to carry on that tradition with my family and I am excited to do it in style!  Check out cooking.com to order yours for only $39.95.