The Green Parent

Oddly enough, did you know that this week is actually National Egg Salad week?  And it’s no wonder.  Now that Easter and Passover are behind us, most of us are looking in the fridge to find an overabundance of hard-boiled eggs.  Should you eat them or toss them?   movie burlesque on dvd According to [...]

Anytime you venture out on vacation, you put yourself at the mercy of the food selections that will be available  to your family at your destination.  Things get even more complicated at Disney because its not like you can just dash out of the park to pick up something else if you don’t like the [...]

According to the U.S. EPA, each American generates about 4½ pounds of garbage each day.  So, in my family of four, we are tossing away over 17 pounds of milk cartons, coloring books, juice boxes, broken dolls, toy packaging, torn-up clothes, Ziploc bags, and leftover sandwiches on a daily basis.  Now that’s rubbish! All this [...]

ATTENTION: Don’t miss the compost tumbler giveaway at the bottom of this post!! Did you know that food scraps make up over 12% of the US waste stream?  According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, Americans throw away more than 25 percent of the food we prepare, amounting to about 96 billion pounds of food [...]

Why pay for good food only to throw it away? It doesn’t make sense, yet it’s something that all of us have done. That’s why 12% of the U.S. waste stream is made up of food scraps. Keep your hard earned dollars out of the trash by using these simple tips to help reduce your [...]