Now, you’ve probably all heard the big hullaballoo about the food crisis, what with food price inflation in recent months. It’s not that there isn’t enough food, it’s just that a lot of food ends up wasted (or diverted to biofuel, I know). In fact, according to a government study, the U.S. wastes a whopping 27 percent of food available for consumption!!

That’s a huge amount. Dang, just staggering. To put this number in Joe terms, it’s like if for every four apples you buy at the store, you have to throw one of them in the trash. It’s a waste o’ time, money, and natural resources. Of course, a large amount of the wasted food is not wasted by consumers, but by the food industry (mainly restaurants).

Most of that food, when thrown away, just ends up taking up space in landfills. Fortunately, good ol’ North Carolina is stepping up to the plate and leading the Southeast in “food waste source reduction and recycling, which includes composting”, according to Mary Beth Van Pelt, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientist based in Atlanta. N.C.’s eventual goal is to ban food waste from landfills, just like they banned yard waste from landfills in 1993.

Many restaurants are taking their own steps to reduce food waste, both by improving efficiency and by composting their old food. Watch, if you please, this video on a restaurant in Portland that’s doing its own commercial composting:



If the world (not just the U.S.) can improve how efficiently it uses its food, prices would drop, everyone would have enough to eat, and we’d be filling up landfills more slowly. So por favor, the next time you’re about to buy some food, make sure that you end up eating it (or donating it to me).If you somehow still want to read even more about food waste (and what is being done to lessen it), lo recomiendo este sitio.

Back in December, I wrote that Design A Tea was offering free samples o’ their organic tea. I had long since given up on getting some free tea… BUT, Brian, the owner of that company, recently wrote and told me that they’d had over 10,000 requests for free tea in two days! Since they pack all their orders by hand, it’s going to take awhile for them to fulfill all those requests.

Anyhoo, Brian was nice enough to send me a lot of free samples of their tea; many different flavors and combinations, and I gots to say, I recommend it.

The good thing about their company is that it lets you combine different teas with different flavors. So far I’ve tried green tea with vanilla, and black tea with pecans. Both were too good.

So if you requested a sample from them, it is coming, fret not. One more good thing: their tea is organic and Fair Trade Certified. So give them a looksie, won’t you?

There you stand, in the grocery store, wishing that you had enough money to get you some of those crazy expensive protein bars. Sadly, you turn away, lamenting your puny muscles, wishing that there was some way to get protein bars without all the extra packaging and high prices. Well pay attention, for here is how to…

Make Your Own Protein Bars

Thanks to Krista’s protein bar recipe, I was able to make some protein bars of my own. Follow along with this picture essay, and you will learn the secrets of how to make some cheap, homemade protein bars.Here are the ingredients. If you want to use some eco-friendly protein powder, or organic bananas, or what have you, then by all means do. I opted for the cheapest ingredients for this demonstration.

• Banana
• Whey protein
• Oats
• Peanut butter
• Raw Peanuts (optional)

READ MORE »

This site is now officially the

FREE TEA SAMPLE

site. You want some free organic tea, I will find some.

Anyhoo, Yogi Tea is giving away a free sample of their delicioso tea. I’ve actually tried it before, and it is some dang good tea.

All you have to do is CLICK HERE, choose one of three flavors of organic tea, and they will send it to you in several weeks. Join me in awaiting a free sample of good ol’ Yogi tea.

I’ma keep this short and simple. Click on THIS LINK to go get some free tea, and remember — it’s not only tea, it’s Laci Le Beau Super Dieter’s Tea (whatever that is).

This survey is not working no more, so sorry.

This is what this site is all about; getting some free food, and helping the environment at the same time. Check it.

Buzzy Seeds is giving away some free vegetable seeds or free flower seeds. You pick. All you have to do is take a short survey, fill out your address, and bam, free seeds are coming your way. I chose to get some free vegetable seeds, so I can see how hard it is to grow some of my own food. Plus, I am very hungry, and flowers don’t fill you up the way verduras do.

Cap’n Planet Says: A huge chunk of your eco-footprint comes from the food you buy. Lots of food is shipped from far away, so a lot of resources are used to get the food to you. Growing your own vegetables = very local food = lower pollution.

Thank you, Mr. Planet. On to the free seeds…

First, take the survey.

When you get to choose your products, choose “Veggie Seeds” or “Flower Seeds”.

Notice that the price below it is $0.00.

After that, fill out the other things it asks you to, then checkout.

You’ll get your free seeds in a couple weeks; this concludes our broadcast session.

Sometimes tea just isn’t fancy enough. Sometimes it needs a little kick of class. That is where Steeped in Style Gourmet tea comes in.

Order yo’self a free sample of gourmet tea today. Because sometimes, non-gourmet tea just ain’t gonna cut it.

*********************************

Moving right along, we have a special offer for free organic garlic gold. What is garlic gold? Turns out it is toasted organic garlic bits infused with organic olive oil. I recommend using it as a breath mint.