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LIVING: Armed Forces
Living Green
Lisa Douglas
Mother of 6
Green Living Aficionado
www.crazyadventuresinparenting.com
Kitchen and Dining Eco-Friendly Choices
by Lisa Douglas posted May 2010
With Earth Day just passing on April 23rd, why not try incorporating some greener choices into the heart of your home this year? When you choose to go green in your most used rooms, such as the kitchen, it aids you in preparing your meals and cleaning up without the use of chemicals, while being safer for the environment, too. Here are some money-saving and planet-loving products and ideas you might want to consider this Spring.
+Have you considered what you use to wash your dishes with? Typical polyurethane sponges don't biodegrade and are made of chemicals whereas the Dish Dumpling from TwistClean.com not only biodegrades because of natural cellulose and agave, but it's powerful against tough clean-ups and safer for you (and the environment), too.
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+A great money saving trick to help keep your freezer cold for less energy is to fill it and pack the remaining areas with bags of ice "to fill the voids" so it won't use as much energy to stay cold (as suggested by Martha Stewart).
+Have you considered using cloth for napkins and to clean? If everyone in the United States alone replaced just one package of paper napkins with cloth, did you know we'd save one million trees? Food for thought, isn't it? Why not make the switch? I wash our cloth napkins right alongside our clothes daily. Try these from ReusableBags.com
+Use glass containers for leftovers instead of plastic. Not only are they safer in microwaves, they won't leak chemicals or melt, like plastic can.
+Keep your produce fresher longer by using some of these wonderful products from ReusableBags.com. We're pretty partial to Debbie Meyer's Green Bags ourselves.
+What about what you use to serve your meals on? Vivaterra.com offers eco-chic choices including some amazing recycled plates made of seaglass, riverstone trivets, or a doormat made of recycled flip-flops you might want to use that are ridiculously cute and stylish to boot.
+Should you take your lunch (or dinner) to go, be sure to pack it using reusable utensils, such as these bamboo ones with a carrying case.
+Instead of plastic straws for the kids' drinks, why not use glass straws? BPA-free, durable and such an easy way to reduce plastic waste and ensure no leaking into their drinks from a cheap plastic alternative.
Lisa Douglas is a blogger/writer of the parenting blog Crazy Adventures in Parenting, as well as a military wife and mom to six currently stationed at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Lisa is passionate about eating and consuming all-natural and organic products while living as green as possible in the military.
