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Get Recession-Ready: 10 Ways to Tighten Your Belt in the Kitchen
jamailac As Lloyd says, recession is in the air, so we are offering up some tips on tightening your belts.Plan meals that will stretch through the week: If you make a spaghetti sauce one night, make enough to use in another meal.
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25 Take-Out Foods You Can Make at Home For Cheaper
Other than the ubiquitous fast food hamburger or fried chicken, it seems to me that the majority of take-out foods come from cuisines other than American. Pulling together the material for this post made my wonder why that is. Do we order Chinese food because we don't normally have the ingredients for it in our pantries? Do we order Indian food because it's too foreign to cook it ourselves? Do we take-out fried chicken because we are afraid to deep fry something?
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One Pot Meals
If you are a university student away from home and cooking for yourself for the first time, chances are your kitchen facilities and skills are a bit limited. Here is a series of recipes that can be made easily and cheaply using just one pot. Of course, you don't have to be a university student to love the simplicity and economy of these dishes. Check out the Planet Green One Pot Meals archives to learn more.
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8 Great, Cheap, Green Food Options
How and where you'll find the greenest goods that money can buy.
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8 Tips For Making the Most of Your Leftovers
Leftovers have long been made fun of, but today we are going to give them the respect that they deserve. Leftovers are a great way to save food, reduce your carbon footprint, save money, and save time.
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Feed a Crowd for Cheap
Chances are the recession doesn't mean you never want to entertain again, but you probably would like to do it a bit more inexpensively. Find menus (and recipes) for meals that feed 8 and cost less than $100. Check out the Planet Green Feed a Crowd for Cheap archives to learn more.
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Crock Pot Recipes
Crock pots are convenient, make great food (with a good recipe) and are really energy efficient. Inexpensive ingredients like legumes and tougher cuts of grass-fed beef are delicious when slow cooked. Enjoy these great eco-friendly, money saving crock pot recipes. Check out the Planet Green Crock Pot Recipes archives to learn more.
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Economical Dinners
An extensive collection of dinner ideas and recipes with eco-friendly, money saving ingredients to feed one or a crowd. Because the quality of our dinners and the time we get to spend together eating them shouldn't suffer in the wake of a weak economy. Check out the Planet Green Economical Dinners archives to learn more.
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Bring Your Own Takeout Lunch Box
You're a savvy eco-consumer: You bring your own mug to the coffee shop and your own bags to the supermarket. How about kicking up a tasty notch and toting along your own lunch box, too?
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Find Local Grocery Deals
Picking up weekly grocery flyers, so you can painstakingly comb through them for the latest steals and deals, can be a hassle, as well as massive producer of paper waste. Tapping into a database of more than 100,000 grocery products, along with their nutritional and ingredient information, the site lists the specials...
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Make Your Own Organic Almond Milk for Pennies
You can make it for pennies and save all the packaging cartons that go along with it. You can get the nut bag mentioned below at your local health foods store.
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Eat Healthy, Reduce Waste, and Save Money: Save Your Veggie Stems!
With 18 percent of the country's solid waste stream coming from food waste (the second largest category of U.S. municipal solid waste), cutting down on what you throw away can make a real difference in the country's waste problem.
