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Being Organic on a Budget

Here’s an excerpt and link to a really good article from the current issue of Organic Lifestyle Magazine.   I encourage you to take a look at their website http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com  and magazine.

IT CAN BE DONE!  by Stephanie Dickison

If you shop at a typical supermarket, the prices on organic produce might be enough to convince you that only the rich can afford an organic diet.  But you, too, can afford to eat organic.Shopper with list and cart, scratching her head

The first step is to educate yourself.  Right now, we are spending money on being sick (health insurance, co-pays, medication) instead of spending money on being healthy.  Your health begins with eating good food loaded with vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. Whenever possible, that means buying an organic product over a regular one. But it doesn’t always need to be labeled USDA Organic to be a better choice. Did you know the Certified Naturally Grown label also certifies food as organically grown?

Locally grown fruit and vegetables bought at a vegetable stand on the side of the road may have been grown organically. Many small farmers don’t go to the expense of certification. Ask them about pesticide use and crop rotation and do your best to support these small organic farms. Their food has more vitamins, minerals, and enzymes than the organic food farmed by the big agriculture companies (due to a lack of crop rotation).

Click HERE for the complete article.

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Coupon lady: Organic foods can fit into modest budget

Carol Gunter, The Augusta Chronical special reporter

Carol Gunter

Found this article in The Augusta Chronicle written by Carol Gunter, Special Columnist, Thursday, June 16, 2011

Frugal is a term that invokes a lot of feelings for people. Buying organic foods is not a concept most people think can coexist with a frugal lifestyle.

But the truth is that with smart shopping and careful planning, organic foods can fit in a modest household budget.

The Environmental Working Group has published a list of what it calls the Dirty Dozen. These 12 foods have the highest concentrations of pesticides that remain in or on produce, based on data from USDA and EPA testing. If you have a limited budget, you should consider buying these products organic whenever possible. The Dirty Dozen consists of apples, celery, strawberries, peaches, spinach, imported nectarines, imported grapes, sweet bell peppers, potatoes, domestic blueberries, lettuce and kale and other types of collard greens.

The group also has published a list called the Clean Fifteen, a list of the 15 least pesticide-absorbent produce on the market. Buying these products organic does not have to be a priority because the differences between regular and organic are minimal. The Clean Fifteen are onions, sweet corn, pineapples, avocado, asparagus, sweet peas, mangoes, eggplant, domestic cantaloupe, kiwi, cabbage, watermelon, sweet potatoes, grapefruit and mushrooms. To print this list in a wallet-size reminder, go to www.ewg.org.

Follow this link to read the entire article:  Coupon Lady  She gives other good tips and website links.  Great Article!!

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Five Percent Discount at Organic Bouquet

Organic Bouquet is my favorite place to get organc flowers, chocolates, and gift baskets.  Today I discovered that they offer a 5% discount through this link.  Enjoy!


Wow 5% Exclusive Coupon for Organic Bouquet

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Organic Bouquet for Thanksgiving

25% Off Site Wide Sale from Organic Bouquet (sale items, gift cards & gift club excluded) Ends 11/20

We are always on the lookout for good vendors of organic products.  Organic Bouquet is one of the best.  They’ve been around for a long time.  They reliably market truly organic products.  And I have used them and love their products. 

Festive Thanksgiving Gourmet Gift Baskets, Wreaths

Organic Bouquet carries much more than just flowers.  Check them out now while they have this terrific sale going.  But hurry; it will be over next Friday! 

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Organic Baby Products Deal

Only five (5) days left to get your Buy 1 Get 1 FREE offer on MiEssence Organic Baby Care products. See all the details at our previous post at We Love Babies!  Thanks,  Linda

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MiEssence Special Offer for April 2009 – We Love Babies!

bubsThe good folks at ONEgroup have just announced their

product special for this month, April 2009.

headlineAnd it is a terrific one!

They are offering a complete set of Mom and Baby Care products

at a Buy One – Get ONE FREE price of $169.00.

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 The product set includes the following:

Protect your baby with the world’s first complete range of certified organic baby care products, MiEssence® mother & baby range. Pure. Safe. Gentle. Totally free from synthetics, allergens, perfumes and essential oils. Available in this special 2 for the price of 1 offer for a limited time only.

You can order directly from the ONEgroup corporate storefront at http://grandstrandorganics.mionegroup.com/en/product/39702.  Just be sure to use the following promo code at checkout:  babypromo

This is a limited time promotion.  To make sure you don’t miss out, you should make your order no later than midnight on April 28, 2009.

All the best,
Linda Murdock

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ONEgroup Preferred Customers

Becoming a Preferred Customer at our ONEgroup website – grandstrandorganics.mionegroup.com – is the very best way to save money on ordering MiEssence, MiEnviron, and MiVitality products.  But this month, new benefits have been added for Preferred Customers that make it an even more fabulous opportunity.

Starting in February 2009, ONEgroup Preferred Customers will receive a monthly newsletter directly from ONEgroup announcing new product specials each month and providing useful news and information.  For instance, this month, we are offering a FREE

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MiEssence Rejuvenessence Facial Serum

with the purchase of any full size MiEssence Skin Care Essentials Pack.   That is a product valued at $37.95 for free.  This discount is on top of the normal 10% off all products because of your status as a Preferred Customer.  It’s a terrific value and a terrific offer!

And in just a few days, March 1st, another special offer will become available to Preferred Customers.

Becoming a Preferred Customer is totally FREE and you are not obligated to any minimum orders whatsoever.  To join, all you have to do is make a purchase at retail price from our ONEgroup storefront.  That purchase can be of any size at all.  You could even purchase some samples or travel sizes.  There is a free shipping offer for orders of $100 or more, but the shipping fee on smaller orders is just $7.95.

As soon as you make that first purchase, you will get an email announcing your status as a Preferred Customer.  And from then on every single purchase you make will be discounted by 10%.  The same shipping offer will still apply.  And there is also a loyalty bonus discount of 20% on one order after you have reached a certail level of “Product Value” points.

It’s all upside for you.  No committments.  No minimum or required ordering.  10% discount on every single item in every single order.  Ocassional discounts of 20%.  Monthly newsletter.  Monthly special offers.  An I will be here to support you in using the website and interacting with the ONEgroup system.  What’s not to like?

Make that first purchase today and be a ONEgroup Preferred Customer!

Wishing you and your loved ones Health and Happiness,
Linda Murdock

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