With so many of us fixated on making changes in the ways we eat to ease the impact of food prices on our wallets, you may not be paying much attention to what meal selections cost in terms of your carbon "food-print."
But, there is good news in gastronomic thriftiness. Are you already buying local foods? Growing your own garden? Cutting back on expensive meats? Stretching leftovers to make an additional meal? Then you’re saving greenhouse gases as well as trimming the grocery budget.
Finding ways to eat that are inexpensive, healthy, and eco-friendly seems like a tall order. Certainly, it calls for changes in our spending, shopping and nutrition habits. But, the adaptations you’re likely making to survive in a tough economy are, in many ways, good for the Earth too.