September 5th's Tip
Soup Day: Food waste is a big problem and buying all your veg in a oner once a week can be a difficult judgment. One solution is to make the day before your weekly shop 'soup day.' You can make tasty soups from any combination of any vegetables and use up all the stuff that you'd otherwise bin (or compost, of course). - contributed by Simon Lee
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10 Responses
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Daniel
September 6th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
it's good that these support your blog with the environmental movement. Any day I write a post to support nature.
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Mike@EasyGreensy
September 7th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
This is a great tip that I'm surprised more people don't do. I used to have a bad habit of wasting veggies. Now about once a week I make either soup or a stew before anything goes bad. I could buy less, but all too often I just don't plan well enough. The best part is that any leftovers can be frozen and ready when I'm not in the mood for cooking a meal.
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Vehicle Shipping
September 8th, 2008 at 11:38 am
My mom always did that. I love vegetable soup -- nothing tastes better on a cold winter day!
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Stefanie
September 9th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Daniel, can't wait to see it!
Mike, I understand completely about not planning well for shopping... I am HORRIBLE at shopping and always end up with too much or too little. Thinking about a soup/stew full of veggies is making me hungry...
Vehicle, as long as it has potatoes in it! I'm a potato junkie
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Technology News
September 12th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Hey I have got many environmental tips...
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We can make most of our blogs look "BLACK".. This will yearly save a lot of power.. Usually all the blogs look white most of the part.. The monitors will consume a lot of power when they show white
Hope you will convert your template to black.... I cannot do that So I turned to "GREEN".
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Mike@EasyGreensy
September 12th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Technology News said:
Unfortunately this is mostly myth. The results vary greatly by monitor type, make, model, and size. Where there is savings, it's pretty insignificant. One Watt on average. Some monitors use more energy when viewing a black page. SEE: http://techlogg.com/content/view/360/31/
The biggest drawback is campaigns like this take away the uniqueness of everyones blogs. I personally like a dark site because I often work late at night (in the dark). I don't want ever site I visit to be black.
The best thing we can do is make sure our monitors and computers are off when we aren't using them. Better unplug them, or turn off power using a strip.
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Stefanie
September 12th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Thank you for the link, Mike. I was going to research Technology News' tip because I've heard of this claim. I don't particularly like black backgrounds much because they make reading very difficult, so I'm glad to hear that claim is overrated.
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BlogOnSmog
September 14th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Excellent idea! Too bad I don't like vegetables. (Just kidding). Make sure you only buy organic local grown veggies at a local farmer's market. Organic is good for the environment and chemicals not flown half way across the world, locally grown to minimize carbon footprint, farmer's market to avoid the electricity required to run a supermarket.
Ole Smokey.
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Stefanie
September 15th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Good tip, BlogOnSmog! And for those who don't know where their local farmer's markets are, the USDA has a search tool for just that. Eat Well Guide also has a search.
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Luferny
June 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
That's what we usually do at home.
Making yummy and healthy soup.
In our backyard we have our vegetable garden.
Its nice to have blogs like this.
Very Eco-friendly blog.