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Footprint Friday–Bellisima Green Challenge: Eat Healthy On A Budget (Part 1)

In our four-family household, second only to our house payment expense is the cost of our food, including meals out. Outside dining represents about 15%-20% of our monthly food expenditures. In doing some research, I found that our household falls into the minority for how the average American home spends its food dollars. Most people assume that it will require… (more…)

May 13, 2011,
Author: Donna Mazzitelli,
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Categories: Being A Bellisima Goddess , Bellisima Green Challenge , Bellisima Green Living , Bellisima Health and Wellness
Tags: Bellisima Green Challenge, budget, Eat Healthy on a Budget, food dollars, food-efficient diet, food-efficient kitchen, footprint Friday, organic foods, outside dining, whole foods

Footprint Friday–Bellisima Green Challenge: Women and Conscious Consumerism

Tuesday, March 8th, was the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. During Women’s History Month, we continue to celebrate and acknowledge women–past, present, and future–and our power to make a difference in our world. One way we have the opportunity to have an impact is as conscious consumers. Did you know that more than 80% of what is purchased in… (more…)

March 11, 2011,
Author: Donna Mazzitelli,
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Categories: Being A Bellisima Goddess , Bellisima Green Challenge , Bellisima Green Living
Tags: Bellisima Green Challenge, boycott, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, CSA, environmental footprint, farmers markets, farms, footprint Friday, healthy food, Local Harvest, organic foods, organic products, protest, Rachel Carson, support local, Women's History Month

Soulful Sunday–Thought-Provoking Books and Movies

As our government faces a decision in the next day or so regarding the introduction of GE alfalfa crops by spring, I continue to look at how our family can be more conscious about the food we consume and the products we use. In our household, food encompasses the largest expenditure after our home mortgage. Most everything we eat is… (more…)

January 23, 2011,
Author: Donna Mazzitelli,
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Categories: Being A Bellisima Goddess , Bellisima Green Living , Inner Bellisima Goddess
Tags: Animal Vegetable Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver, books, chemicals, Food Inc., Food Rules, GE alfalfa, GE crops, Harvest for Hope, In Defense of Food, Jane Goodall, King Corn, Michael Pollan, movies, organic foods, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Soulful Sunday, The Botany of Desire, The Future of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma

Wellness Wednesday–Teach Your Children Well

Last night our family was having a discussion about why it’s important to eat organic food. My husband and I were talking about some of our concerns with buying produce and meats that are not organic. One of my 14-year old daughters said, “Well, why didn’t you tell us this a long time ago? If you’d told us about some… (more…)

October 28, 2009,
Author: Donna Mazzitelli,
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Categories: Being A Bellisima Goddess , Bellisima Health and Wellness
Tags: antibiotics, Dr. Andrew Weil, hormones, Maria Rodale, organic, organic foods, pesticides, Wellness Wednesday

Let’s Make October Breast Health Month–Ways You Can Promote Breast Health!

Every October, we are reminded about breast cancer–we are invited to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month. What has always bothered me about this is the focus on disease–we are focused on celebrating our awareness of a disease. In my opinion, our focus is in the wrong place, because I believe what we focus on, we manifest. I wish we could… (more…)