Better way to beat food inflation
Has your grocery bill gone up?
The average person would answer yes (or something a bit more emphatic).
USA today asked folks how they’re dealing with it.
There were a variety of strategies highlighted. All strategies but one emphasized cutting back in some fashion and often compromising nutrition.
Adam Drewnoski, Director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington in Seattle commented:
Often when food prices increase, the first items that grocery shoppers leave out of their carts are the healthful foods — fruits, vegetables, fish and lean meats. It doesn’t have to be that way.
People can use these difficult times to their nutritional advantage by buying locally grown produce, growing some of their own food or brushing up on their cooking skills.
After Rebecca Woods’ grocery bill doubled year over year, she decided to grow it rather than buy it. She’s got a mini farm going including a cow for milk and chickens for eggs. Yea Rebecca!
She and her family are eating fresher, more nutritious food and her grocery bill is down.
Says Rebecca:
“It’s very satisfying that we can take control of this portion of our lives without making any dramatic sacrifice.”
Call it a victory garden, a peace garden, a food security garden, a survival garden or simply your little patch-o-dirt, it’s fun to cultivate.
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