How To Green Your Grocery List

It can be hard to focus on eating greener when the very staples you need cost more than usual. Fortunately, there's a veritable cornucopia of ways to green your grocery list while keeping your costs in check: everything from prioritizing organic purchases to cutting down on meat to buying local and growing your own food.

After all, if you are what you eat, then you also eat what you are -- so eat green.

Here's how to start.

Make a list, check it twice. It may sound silly, but the first step when it comes to greening your grocery list is to actually make one. We know how the candy aisle can call to a person (oh Junior Mints, how you taunt us!), but heading to the grocery store armed with a carefully thought-out list is a great way to avoid buying more than you need, loading up on industrially produced dreck that's harsh on the planet, and adding unnecessary costs to your tab. To keep things fresh, try setting aside some time once a week to look through cookbooks or talk with your finicky family members about what new foods they're willing to try.

Read the full list of Grist's tips to green your grocery list.

Related:

::Blogger Jenna Woginrich's 5 ways to turn your home into an organic farm on the Huffington Post.
::Read about locavores and how to start eating locally on the Huffington Post.
::More on green living from the Huffington Post.

Comments

[SouthpawSass]

"King Corn" (released today in NY) is a documentary about two guys who go back to Iowa, grow an acre of corn and follow their crop into the food system. Corn is in everything we eat and drink and I believe the documentary also has an environmental tinge as well.

Website: http://www.kingcorn.net/

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rubx-_3dalg

Aaron Woolf, director and co producer, has recently opened his own grocery store in Brooklyn using local growers...

[Kevbo68]

To truly green your grocery list:

- shop in the dark
- don't write your list in ink as the ink and pen are made from oil
- don't write a list at all as it wastes paper
- only consume seeds
- use hybrid paper/plastic bags
- shop in even numbered aisles on even days
- don't shop on odd days at all
- eat only organic Twinkles

[Kevbo68]

Hah. HuffPo's picture choice will once again incite mention that apparently only black people need to save on groceries. (Well, I guess I'm proving my own silly point.)

Witness the discussions that followed the recent article featuring a picture of a black woman pushing a shopping cart and then the article with a photo of a black person's hand holding a sales receipt.

Darn you HuffPo! White people need to shop too! How can you overlook our plight so brazenly?