10 Strategies to Eat Smarter

1. Shop at a local store where you know the owner and the owner knows you.


2. Eat low-fad foods. Most of the best foods have bargain basement prices.


3. Buy in season.


4. Waste not, want not. Organic foods become affordable when you use the whole food (as our grandmothers knew).


5. Pay the extra cost of organic on the installment plan. Eat now, save later on your health and that of your community.


6. Turn your kitchen into a profit centre. Take the time to prepare food you used to buy.


7. Turn your lawn into a profit centre. The yard (the word comes from the ancient Anglo Saxon word for herb garden) can become what it used to be. Grow your own food.


8. Turn a walk in a meadow into a profit centre. Weeds are wildflowers with bad PR. Learn about the different edible greens and make them a part of your diet.


9. Start a community garden.


10. Turn your workplace benefit plan into an organic profit centre. Smart employers ask for an "undertime bonus" that gives employees half-pay to take a day off work to grow, gather or prepare organic food.