Quick question: What are you having for dinner tonight? No plan? You’re not alone. About one third of Americans don’t know what we’re having for dinner tonight. While a dash of serendipity and spontaneity may be good for the soul, when it comes to eating, having a plan helps both the planet and pocketbook.
No meal plan results in – you guessed it – our falling into the
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Time management gurus advocate going after "low hanging fruit" first: identifying and going after your most obvious opportunities. This same "go after the low stuff" theory also applies to edible activism: "Eat low, use more."
Basically this means eating as much as possible lower on the food chain, using a core staple of whole grains, beans and generally less processed food. Grains and beans pack a nutritional wallop — a single serving of
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Thriftiness isn’t really "new" or "green"; people have found ways to reuse scrap or discarded items for years. The pre-industrialization U.S. didn’t have what we call "trash." Every bit of scrap and waste from the home was remade, reused in some way, or sold to peddlers where it was eventually recycled. With the Industrial Revolution came more products to buy with new kinds of packaging, and trash as we know it
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