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groceries

No More Excuses For No Grocery Bags

July 9, 2009

Down at the coffee shop this morning, I conducted an informal poll. Folks sitting at the tables there are accustomed to me dropping by and asking stupid questions and, thankfully, they put up with me. I asked ten people, “What is the easiest baby step that a person can take to ‘go green’?”
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Couldn’t Bring Home The Bacon

June 30, 2009

The recession has hit home to me now.
It wasn’t enough that my favorite Starbucks Coffee Shop closed. I expected that. It was down in Colleyville, Texas … and there were four Starbucks within a mile of it (most of them located in grocery stores). I always visited it when I was in [...]

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Grocery Shopping Simplified

June 28, 2008

I love going to a Farmer’s Market to choose produce fresh from the farm. Never having been refrigerated, the fruits and vegetables actually smell the way they are supposed to smell!
I enjoy going to the butcher shop here in town, where the owners call me by name, and know exactly what I want before [...]

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Foraging

March 5, 2008

“Despite their burdens, they [the women] foraged as they traveled, and so efficiently it hardly slowed them down. A patch of day lilies was quickly stripped of buds and flowers, and tender new roots exposed with a few strokes of the digging sticks…shoots and tender young leaves of clover, alfalfa, dandelion; thistles stripped of [...]

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