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Here at Saving Naturally, we believe that living healthy should be affordable.
by Stephanie
There’s a common misconception that it costs a fortune to live more naturally, to eat well and to use products that are easy on our bodies and on the earth. Everywhere you look these days, new “green” or “natural” products are springing up, making enticing promises, but usually with a less-than-enticing price tag.
As a stay-at-home mom of a single-income family these past 6 years, many products like these have been beyond our means. Yet, our family was becoming increasingly aware of the negative effects of conventional body and beauty care, cleaning products, and especially of the processed, industrial foods that fill the grocery store shelves.
The more we learned, the higher priority it became for us to only use and consume things that were sustainable, non-toxic, well-raised and grown, less wasteful, chemical free, whole and healthful.
The challenge?
To do it on a tight, single-income budget, with a growing family!
Over the years, I have come to the conclusion that it doesn’t have to cost more to live in a more natural, healthy and wholesome manner.
We eat a whole foods diet, with probably 80% of our food being organic or that we know has been grown/raised in a responsible, chemical-free manner. We are careful to choose only gentle, non-toxic products to use on our bodies. Our home is cleaned with simple solutions, many homemade and some of them purchased.
Best of all, we do it for the same amount of money (and usually less) than the average family.
Our desire with this site is to teach other families how to do the same. My goal is to help you to find better resources, get the best deals, live more frugally, and more carefully steward and make the most of what you have.
We believe that living in a healthy and natural way is really, truly possible– for every family, on every budget.
Even yours.
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I was just speaking with my mom today about affordable healthier living. She said, “There’s no way I can afford that when I’m about to only be working part-time.” I told her that there has to be a way. Just because we don’t see one, doesn’t mean there is none. Thank you for this site. I hope to learn many new things and helpful tips for affordable healthier living.
I just subscribed! I cannot tell you how happy I am to have found this site. I could literally cry. My husband and I started to change our diet over 2 months ago to natural foods and cut out almost all processed. However, we doubled our grocery budget and our head was spinning! We have gotten ourselves behind in our bills because we kept blowing our grocery budget to bits. I was shopping at the only specialty food store in our area. We don’t have a Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods or even a Costco! It is very annoying to be trying to change our healthy with so few resources, and while we love our local Co-op, they are very expensive. I have started doing some research on eating natural and organic on a strict budget, and that is how I came across your site. Thank you so much for starting this! It is a true blessing, and I can’t wait to share it with my other family members.
I have had this for a while and I am still struggling on how it is done. We have found a food co-op but I’d really like to recheck into this. I just don’t understand how you can do it for less? I am going from the beginning again.