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Organic Acres is like no garden you’ve ever seen before. You will lease and have access to your own 240 or 120 square foot Organic Garden 24/7 from the comfort of your own living room through the magic of the computer.

You will tell your own personal gardener what favorite products you wish to plant. The only thing you will miss is that pungent compost odor that wafts through your garden.

You will have an expert gardener assigned to till, plant, hoe, and harvest your crops for you. You can then choose to sell all or a portion of your crops in our farmers market, have all or a portion of your crops shipped direct to your house for dinner or give all or a portion of your crops to feed the hungry.

All of this will be handled for you by the expert staff at Organic Acres. All of your crops will use only products certified as organic by the USDA and all of your crops will be guaranteed.

Let me say again you have never seen anything like this!

Organic Acres has created the ultimate way to obtain verifiably organically raised foods for you and your family and have it shipped fresh to your door for a price that you won’t believe.

Think of it this way, if you owned your own organic farm you and your family would eat the best foods for FREE. Because you sold the rest of the crop and covered your expenses.

You can get Free food and earn from others that you have introduced to Organic Acres.

Pre-Register at www.yourorganicacres.com for NO COST.

It has long been known that a healthy diet and exercise = optimum health.

Sadly, most of us have no idea what “healthy diet” really means, because very few “healthy choices”

even exist in our modern day grocery markets. Foods we think are healthy, rarely are.

So what are we to do?

GET THRIFTY and GET BACK TO THE BASICS!

Grow, raise and produce your own food.

If you have no other options but to “buy” your food, buy only LOCAL grown veggies and LOCAL farm raised meats.

If your last or only resort is buying food from a grocery market, be sure to check the label. If there are any ingredients

your grandmother would not even know how to pronounce, don’t buy it!

Also stay away from products that contain corn syrup and corn starch.

For more information about the health effects and information pertaining to the massive amounts of modified corn in our
modern diet, please check out the first 20 minutes of a fantastic documentary called, King Corn.

Did you ever wonder why Lemonade is a favorite “summer time” drink?

Lemonade (made with real lemons) is not just refreshing, it also naturally lowers body temperature.

As a matter of fact, drinking pure lemon water daily,  (NO SUGAR added) is actually one of the most important things you can do for your health.

Other health benefits include:

• Lemons are antiseptic
• Lemon water has excellent digestive properties and can ease heartburn, bloating and other digestion problems
• Lemon water cleanses and stimulates the liver and kidneys
• Lemon juice contains calcium, magnesium and potassium
• Lemon juice has been known to relieve asthma
• Lemon water (hot) offers relief from cold and flu symptoms while providing some much needed Vitamin C
• Lemon juice is a great skin cleanser

We’ve all heard the old eggs and cholesterol myth. Yes, I did say “myth” because that’s what it is. Eggs are actually pretty healthy for you as long as you don’t fry them in 10 pounds of butter . Of course, the easiest way to get the cheapest eggs is to buy your own chicken. That’s another post in another area, though.

My Wife’s Favorite way to make Tuna Salad:

2 cans tuna in water

2 hard boiled eggs

1/2 bell pepper (if large, whole if small)

1/2 onion (if large, whole if small)

1 stalk celery

mustard (to taste)

Chop and mix all in a bowl! Serve on wheat bread or wheat crackers!

Quick, easy and healthy (thrifty too).

Tuna fish is cheap to buy canned (make sure it is IN WATER, not in oil) plus it has the added benefit of being an excellent source of protein.  There are some great healthy tuna fish recipes out there (check the recipe section here, maybe?).  My only problem with tuna is basically our over-fishing of our oceans.  Yep, I’m a “greeny”.  Check the Green Living portion of this site to find out more.

Tuna is one of my wife’s all time favorites. She even loves it right out of the can with nothing on it. Maybe this is why she always has a flock of cats around her?

My wife’s favorite Ramen recipe, is simply chopping up onion and bell pepper, adding it to the bottom of the soup bowl, and after cooking the Ramen as directed on the package, she pours her Ramen soup on top of the peppers and onions. She will often add celery to this mix as well.

Great stuff!

Ah, the fast food industry loves this little money maker. The simple fact is that pound for pound potatoes are a cheap food. If you ever grow any (see the Gardening Thrift-opedia section) you’ll discover why. A little bit of land produces a LOT of potatoes.

If you’re going to cook a lot of french fries the convenient (and expensive) way to do this is to buy them frozen. The thrifty way is to buy your potatoes and cut them up yourself. Yes it takes a little time but you can cut as many as you need!

Fresh cut potatoes are awesomely good compared to frozen plus you can cut them to the sizes that you like!

To become self sufficient one must plant a garden. The easiest way to do this is to simply grab a shovel, a hoe, some seeds and a hose. Make some rows yourself, which is great exercise, and search the net for tips on growing and what to grow. You can greatly supplement your diet with items you grow yourself even if you have just a small parcel of land to work with. If you have a large one you can grow all you need for yourself and your family (this is very time consuming however).

This is a great, easy, cheap chili recipe that takes very little preparation.

Ingredients:

1 can of kidney beans (16 ounces), rinsed and drained
1 can hot chili beans (15 1/2 ounces)
1 can turkey chili with beans (15 ounces)
1 can diced tomatoes, undrained (14 1/2 ounces)
1/3 cup of barbecue sauce

In a 3-qt. slow cooker, combine all of the ingredients.  Cover and cook this on high for 4 hours are until heated through and flavors are blended.  This will yield 4 to 6 servings.

We spend a LOT of money on fast food.  If you’re going to work or on a trip pack your own lunch ahead of time.  You can invest in a small lunch cooler to carry with you and preserve the food till it’s time to chow down.  It may take a dollar to put together a couple of sandwiches whereas you will spend at LEAST $5 getting a combo meal somewhere.

Avoid restaurants and restaurant costs.  Plan ahead and save money.

Take your favorite shredded cheese and add to the bottom of your bowl you will eat out of.  Combine with half of the ramen flavor packet, season to your taste.  Mix this together.

Boil your ramen noodles normally, using the other half of the seasoning packet.  Drain the water from your noodles and while still hot drop them into the prepared bowl.  Mix this with the now melted cheese until uniform and enjoy!

One of my favorites.

Looking for a good dietary additive that’s high in protien?  Buy some whey.  You can put these into your health shakes and a 10 lbs bag of the stuff is only about 65 dollars.  This may seem like a lot but if you use it every day this should still last you about 3 to 4 months.