Ms. Sally Parrott Ashbrook writes one of my favorite blogs over at Aprovechar. She integrates mind, body, and spirit, plus she writes about it beautifully. She's dealing with several restrictive food allergies, but handles it quite well as she's always posting about yummy things she's made. This whole grocery store/food spending is on all of our minds, for sure. Check out what Sally's doing for her Grocery Store Planning.
We wrapped our first day of shooting "Free Radio." Ed Begley, Jr. was on the show today, and he was hilarious, wonderful, and up for anything. I learned a ton since Ed is the Guru of the Green Makeover (my term, not his). Did you know it's OK to put printed cardboard (like cereal boxes) in the blue recyling bin here in LA? I had always heard that they didn't get recycled, but Ed set me straight. He also knows the names of all the different types of plastic according to what numbers are printed on the bottoms of the bottles. Genius.
I promise to respond to the comments to the previous Curbing Food Spending post very soon. Very soon. I promise.
4 comments:
i am a huge ed begley fan. i love his show. i also think he is underrated in the hero department. so many people these days are heroes based on a level of celebrity. he is REALLY doing something to make a change in all of our futures. thanks for the post.
Thanks for the shout out, Anna! :)
Sally, you're so welcome! I'm a huge fan, what can I say?
That Ed Begley taught me more in 45 minutes about things I can do to go green than I've learned in this past year of green hype. He explained why things are dangerous to us as humans, not just to the environment, and he comes at it from a "here's how you can save money" angle, which totally resonates with everyone. He made it personal and motivating, but he was never pushy. Plus, he was in all those Christopher Guest movies, so I automatically was in awe.
Totally unrelated to your post here, but can I bitch my balls off about how one can Google "gluten free" and either "Lean Cuisine" or "Healthy Choice" and land at stupid corporate pages on both sites that say they won't go on record saying what's gluten-free and what's not?
Afeeared-of-lawsuit-mo-fos!
I'm sorry, that shit just pisses me off. I mean, Keith and I spent an hour in the store and found two Healthy Choice options and one Lean Cuisine and I thought, "Oh, cool. I can go off Bistro MD and just find stuff in the store."
Apparently not.
Bastards.
Make it easy for your gluten-free customers. It's not like we're trying to avoid WATER or something like that! :P
Bleh!
Man. I really should just get into cooking. But then I'd have to get into cooking. Um... no.
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