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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.

Tap water. You’ve heard so much about it and may not like it. However, compare it to a bottled water and you’ll see the price difference awfully quick. You should think about switching to tap water. If you don’t like the taste, believe it or not it’s usually just a simple case of not having adapted to it yet. Drink enough times and you won’t even notice anymore. Studies have shown that most tap water is as safe to drink as bottled water (check reports in your area).

Also, check out where your bottled water does come from if you do decide to stick with it. There are a whole lot of them that come from… you guessed it, the tap!

Some general advice when you’re looking for cheap, healthy alternatives. A good healthy diet will always have:

* Protein in it to build muscle, repair tissue, etc.
* Fat should have a balance of omega 3, 6, and 9.
* Veggies of all types, especially the green, leafy ones.
* Fruits are full of vitamins and “healthy” sugars.
* Water. D’uh.
* Whole grain foods, such as bread, pasta, etc…

Don’t get to eat healthy enough? A cheap and healthy way to boost your immune system and overall well-being is to supplement your meals with vitamins! It is scientifically proven that people that use vitamins live healthier and even longer lives!

The wife and I take vitamin supplements, and along with regular exercise have found that we are much healthier and become sick less often! Your mom told you to take your vitamins, it’s time you listen!

Want to lose weight and gain stamina without joining an expensive gym? Do what humans did for thousands of years. Get outside and do some walking. The wife and I try to get out and walk a couple of miles each day when the weather is nice. Walking is just one of the many different exercises you can do without going to a gym.

Of course, start off slowly and build your way up. If you’re not used to exercise walk a quarter of a mile the first week then double it every other week. Before you know it you’ll be feeling and looking better!

A gym body without the gym? Big time! Click Here to see how

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?

The drink that has been around since hydrogen molecules found they got along well with oxygen molecules. Good old water is the cheap drink of choice that is readily available to most Americans. Have a faucet nearby? You have access to the cheapest drink possible.

Don’t like the taste of your water or don’t trust it unfiltered? Check here for some great ideas.

If at all possible, try to avoid Emergency Room visits to hospitals.  I know this may not apply to you at all but remember that Emergency Room visits can be expensive.  Try and call your regular doctor to see if he can take you immediately if the care needed isn’t super urgent.  Of course, if you’re uncertain don’t ponder – call 911.

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).

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.