Organic Foods and More: 30 Days to a Greener, Healthy Diet

Recipes, advice and ideas for a healthy eating plan that's earth-friendly.

The "greenest" foods are healthy foods. Whether you eat meat or are strictly vegetarian or vegan, these are the foods that are good for you and good for the planet. In 4 weeks you can make the switch to a diet of delicious, whole, organic foods, local foods, artisan foods with fewer pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, genetically modified ingredients or chemical additives.

1 Pour a Glass of Organic Wine	2 Think Food Quality, Not Food Quantity	3 Eat Like Grandmother	4 The Scariest Foods You Must Buy Organic	5 Try a Glamorous New Old Grain	6 Read Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food

7 Project Pantry Purge	8 Drink Milk Like a European	9 Eat a 100% Local Meal Each Week	10 Be a Compassionate Carnivore	11 Shop a Farmers' Market, CSA or Food Co-op	12 Switch to Butter (Don't Faint)

13 Buy an Heirloom (or a Heritage) Food	14 Clean Out the Old Spice(s)	15 Go Vegetarian 2X a Week	16 Buy a Great Olive Oil (and One for Everyday Use)	17 Learn a New Food Word: Artisanal	18 Simplify with The Art of Simple Food

19 Ban High-Fructose Corn Syrup	20 Treat Yourself to an Artisanal Cheese	21 Eat Bread (It's OK Again)	22 Go Brown	23 Get Real with Sweeteners	24 Be Kind to Chickens

25 Rent Fast Food Nation	26 Try a Tofu Recipe (You Can Do It)	27 Eat Slow Food Not Fast Food	28 Pick Your Own	29 Ditch the Drive-Thru	30 Listen to the New Dirt Farmer CD