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Looking for a great treat to enjoy on the weekend – look no further than the mister’s vegan blueberry ice cream smoothie. It is perfection!
Ingredients:
Blend until smooth and enjoy.
There are many ways to make your dining and drinking experiences more eco-friendly. Here are a few from Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style, read on, and then leave your own tips!
1. Eat Local Foods:
Knowing where your food comes from is great for conversation and also good for your local farmers, economy, and the earth.
2. Ditch Processed Foods:
Choose whole recognizable foods that are as close to their natural state as possible, instead of refined foods.
3. Buy Organic and Biodynamic Wines:
Organic grapes are grown without chemical fertilizers or chemicals. This means that the fertilizers and chemicals won’t get into the air, water, soil, or your body!
4. Support your Local Micro-Brewery:
Cold ones are made from barley, hops, and sometimes wheat – conventionally these ingredients are grown using herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides. Choose a local organic or biodynamic brewery to support instead.
5. Fair Trade/Shade Grown Coffee:
Only drink coffee that is shade-grown, Fair Trade Certified, and Organic. It is really easy to find in your local markets these days. It is important because it helps to prevent the deforestation of the rain forest. Several decades ago farmers found that if you cleared the lovely canopy of the rain forest to grow coffee in the sun, it would grow faster. However cutting down the rain forest to do this, is a horrible idea.
How do you make your dining and drinking experiences greener?
Are you on a tight budget? Have you been wondering which type of produce you should purchase because of high levels of pesticides? Conventional or organic?
The Environmental Working Group’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides will help you decide which produce you should buy organic and which you can purchase conventional, and save some money.
You can download and print this nifty pocket guide here and keep it in your purse or wallet. There’s an app too!
Do you purchase your produce according to the Dirty Dozen/Clean 15?
Do you love the outdoors and envision your wedding day in a meadow full of wildflowers overlooking a rustic barn? Me too! Wait I am already married. Ha! If I were to get married again (to the same man, of course!) I would definitely consider a beautiful organic farm for my wedding day destination. I can’t think of a more charming place to marry your best friend, while surrounded by the ones you love. If getting married on a farm is on your wishlist, read on for a few ideas to consider: