Lunch Time and Recycling

Do you or your kids take their lunch to school or work? If so than these simple steps will help save money and also benefit the environment.
This article is about creating lunch with no waste. That means less trash filling up our public waste baskets. The challenge is to create a lunch in which every item included can be eaten or reused. In other words the take out meal that you create must be a masterpiece of recycling. Your goal is to create a lunch that cannot be disposed of in any way.
First off, no more plastic or paper bags allowed to be taken to school or work! You can reuse this lunch pail or lunch sack. You can carry a reusable lunch pail all year. The same lunch pail can also be handed down from kid to kid so you do not have to buy any more plastic. A reusable ice pack can help keep their foods cold and fresh.
There are also two products on the market that are really useful for keeping the amount of plastic we put in landfills down. These are Snack Taxi and Wrap-N-Mat. These are reusable sandwich and snack bags. They are easy to use and really cheap. Just think how much money you would save if you would finally have the chance to stop buying plastic baggies. Zip Lock bags are really expensive!
You can also invest in reusable plastic water bottles…By refilling a child's reusable water bottle in their lunch; you can save $0.50 to $1.00 a day because you don't have to buy pouch drinks or water bottles! For me that means saving about thirty bucks a month per child. So I am saving $120 a month because I have four kids.
To store your child's lunch items during the day, you can buy bulk products to reduce your packaging and expenses. There is no need any more for the individually packaged items that create a large amount of waste and are usually much more expensive. I use plastic reusable containers whenever possible. I train my kids to make sure they bring the container complete with lid home.
Creating environmentally friendly lunches are easier than you think. Teach your children about why they are using the items that they have and explain how saving the environment by eliminating their trash is going to help the planet. Usually it becomes a conversation piece at the lunch table and other children become quite engaged in the topic. The more we educate the children, the more we have made a difference. This is all part of raising more conscientious individuals who are aware of the effect of all of their actions on the environment.

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Protecting You and Your Kids From Toxins

Your body is a battlefield. Your cells are defending themselves against toxins every single minute a day.
Toxins can be extreme, like poison mushrooms or snake venom. However most toxins can also exist in seemingly harmless plants, common foods, and in many of our daily household items.
They can be ingested, absorbed by the skin, inhaled, and even produced by the body. Where toxins build up, adverse reactions may occur, some of them serious. Where there is disease present, the natural cellular environment has in some way been disturbed or altered by toxins.
The physical effects of toxins can range from a simple skin rash or irritation, to inflammation, and digestive problems, to major diseases, such as cancer.
Unfortunately toxins are a fact of life. Toxins are everywhere — from pollution in the air we breathe and the water we drink, to the preservatives and environmental chemicals in foods.
Toxins also get into our bodies when we eat excessive refined sugars and animal fats, or highly processed junk foods. We also consume big amounts of toxins when we smoke, drink alcohol excessively, and take pharmaceutical drugs.
When cells become toxic they die. Cells need energy in the form of nourishment, hydration and oxygen which is supplied to them by the surrounding fluids. This fluid is mostly water.
Cells will take what they need by way of minerals and nutrients, and either transforms it into energy or store it away for future use. The rest becomes waste, which they need to expel back into the surrounding fluids to be flushed away. If there is an overabundance of toxins and acids in the fluids it can alter the cells’ ability to function. The cells get constipated and congested just as we do. This in turn manifests as sickness.
So to stay well you need to –
• Eat nutritious wholesome food that is vegetarian without dairy or meat
• Drink plenty of water but not too much so you don't dilute them minerals in your system
• Exercise to keep the fluids and lymph system moving so any energy moving through our body is free flowing
• A healthy non-toxic clean environment that does not trigger allergies or poisonings
The trick is to stay away from foods and other substances that work against us, but instead to choose foods that keep our cellular environment clean.
Humans need to keep the fluids moving through their cells through exercise. This will keep toxins from creating an environment where they can take hold and do damage to tissues.
You can eliminate alcohol, caffeine, baked goods, dairy foods, and red meat, and instead revert to lighter fare, or a vegetarian or raw diet.
Doing the above is very much part of alkalinizing your diet. Integrating the alkaline and dispensing with the acidic to the best of your ability is the best way of defending yourself against disease.

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