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Over ripe bananas in the kitchen? We have all been there. Sometimes throwing them out in the compost or garbage seems like a good idea. However, an overripe banana is packed with powerful nutrients and flavor. The more ripe and developed the sugars are, the stronger the banana flavor is. Which is absolutely perfect…
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I was drawn west and left Buffalo, NY at 23 years old to move to Colorado – this city girl quickly learned the in’s and out’s of country cooking. Sure, in Buffalo we had apple and cherry trees in my back yard and a slew of tomato plants to feast on. I grew up…
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Did you know that you can regrow celery from the base of the stalks? Apparently you can, which had me wondering what I have been doing all my life when it came to celery. Usually I would save the bottoms for soup stocks or throw them out if looked even slightly suspicious. This went…
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Did you know that traditional clay based cat litter is not biodegradable? When it is sent to landfills it just lumps into clay piles that gets compacted with other trash particles. And the actual mining process of clay is environmentally damaging to our earth. Facilities will use strip mining to pull the clay from…
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You may be thinking that trying out the Zero Waste lifestyle might be too hard or complicated. Therefore, for the sake of time, you might just pass even on the thought of it. However, I am here to show you how easy it actually is! And that you may already be doing these things…
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Plant-Based Grocery Haul? Eating healthy doesn’t have to break your budget. This is a two-week grocery haul for $81.33 or $40.67 per week if you broke it up. I aimed for as much zero waste as possible with this trip. The plastic you do see is recyclable, however click list did sneak in a…