- Shop your local farmer's market. Most of the time you save an average of 33%
- Buy most produce in season.
- Buy in bulk. For beans, grains, lentils and nuts, go straight for the bulk containers. Just make sure you have a cool, dry place in your kitchen to store your dry goods for a couple of months. You can save on storage space by splitting your goods with a friend.
- Frozen- In the off season buy preserved foods including frozen fruits and vegetables.
- Shop Sales and house brands. Look at the circular for your grocery stores to find the loss leaders.
- Shop on-line. The GreenPeople directory from the Organic Consumer Association is a good place to begin your online search for cost-effective organic foods. A list of additional organic directories is also available on the site. There are also plenty of on-line stores offering organic products from Organic Kitchen and even Amazon
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- Be flexible. Use store discount fliers when planning your weekly menus. More mindful shopping can save you money. Shop Aldi and other smaller stores. They have a small, inexpensive selection of organic foods. Combine shopping at smaller stores and bigger grocery stores to buy the loss leaders and stock up when they are on discount.
- Buy a share in a community-supported agriculture program.
- Coupons- You will find a few in the Sunday paper as well as online coupon websites like coupons.com.
- Sign up- Sign up for the following newsletters: Kiwi, Mambo sprouts and Eating Well. They e-mail great lots of coupons and meal ideas.
- Less Meat- Eat less meat. Organic meat can be expensive. Also eating vegetarian is healthier.
- Grow your own- Start your own organic garden.
- Solicit- Look on the websites of your favorite organic companies and print out your favorite companies' coupons. They do not provide coupons? Contact them, pay them a complement on their foods and they will most likely send you more coupons to keep you as a faithful customer.
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