Jessica's Blog — Conscious Consumers

Buy Less, Buy Better

Posted by Jessica Duncan on

Buy Less, Buy Better
We are products of our culture, but we are not victims to it. We can choose to step out of mindless consumption and into simplicity. 

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Spoiled for Choice? 5 Tips to Navigate the Shopping Nightmare

Posted by J & G Duncan on

Spoiled for Choice?  5 Tips to Navigate the Shopping Nightmare

How do you choose?  No, really. This isn’t a rhetorical question. I really do want to know how you choose which groceries to buy, what you’re going to eat, how to feed yourself and your family. I have found this an increasingly difficult task. Already pretty neurotic around food, I became fanatical about buying local, seasonal and ethically produced foods when we ran a small farm in Scotland for 7 years. Farming was a whole new ball game for me, and I quickly learned about the blood, sweat and tears that went into the production of a single zucchini or...

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