Five Smart Buys for Frugal Shoppers at Upscale Whole Foods
10:00 AM 3/11/2011
Considering that people love to joke about "Whole Paycheck," it may surprise you to learn that there are at least a few smart buys over at Whole Foods Market that will save you.
These make sense, especially if you're a reluctant cook in a one-person household and prefer organic foods. The key is...
Top 10 Vegetables With the Most Nutritional Bang for Your Buck
9:00 AM 3/8/2011
Leafy greens are touted as being good for you, and now here's added incentive to pick them up at the supermarket or farmer's market: They're among the best buys in terms of getting the most nutritional bang for your buck.
If you want to watch your wallet and also buy fresh vegetables that provide...
Top 10 Fruits With the Most Nutritional Bang for Your Buck
11:30 AM 3/7/2011
healthcare, Economizer, Consumer Ally, Food, Family Money, Saving Money
Jennifer Langston jokes that her 2-year-old eats fruit like a bat, so that helped propel her to come up with nifty calculations on which fruits bring the most nutritional bang for your buck.
If you want to watch your budget and also buy fruits that provide pretty good nutrition, below are the...
Flushable "green" kitty litter isn't green if you flush it down the toilet, as we recently noted, and ordinary clay litter requires mining land for the benefit of cats. So what is the best green kitty litter?
Let's first stipulate that the choice of litter depends on what the cat is willing to...
Flushable cat litter is sometimes marketed as green, but here's the rest of the story: It's not if you flush it down the toilet.
That's right. Don't flush "flushable" cat litter, scientists say. Double bag it and send it to a sanitary landfill.
By flushing cat poop, pet owners unwittingly may...
Costco says it has stopped selling about a dozen imperiled fish in a move toward selling consumers more sustainable seafood. Greenpeace, which pressured the retailer, declares this a victory for oceans, but says Costco could go further.
The warehouse giant based in Issaquah, Wash., has agreed to...
The Clean 15: Foods You Don't Need to Buy Organic
8:00 AM 2/25/2011
healthcare, Green, Retail, Consumer Ally, Food, Family Money
Organic foods get a lot of buzz for their lack of chemical pesticides, but you can save money and avoid pesticides by buying certain conventionally grown fruits and vegetables found in the regular supermarket produce aisle.
To help prioritize your food dollars, here's the current list of the...
The Dirty Dozen: Produce Exposed to the Most Pesticides
1:00 PM 2/24/2011
Every time you eat a meal, you consume residues of insect killers and fungicides -- unless you eat only organic foods. Many pesticides disrupt male hormones, new research shows. Yet not everyone's budget allows for buying only organic foods, which typically (not always) are pricier, but also must...
Big Screen TVs: Six Tips for Picking an Energy-Efficient Model
3:00 PM 2/18/2011
Some TVs use as much electricity as a refrigerator, one of the home's biggest energy hogs. Yet big-screen TVs come in energy-efficient models at prices comparable to the electricity-gobbling beasts. Trouble is, you can't spot them just by looking at them. Side by side, they may appear identical,...
Light Bulbs Advertised as 'Green' Contain Arsenic and Lead: Study
11:00 AM 2/15/2011
Those energy-saving little LED bulbs advertised as eco-friendly -- and used in strings of holiday lights and in car headlights -- actually contain toxic lead, arsenic and some other bad stuff, new research shows.
Alarming? Sure. But in a surprise twist, a study author says: Buy them anyway.
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