Earth, Love and Craziness

My life is more crazy and hectic than it should be. I am also very unorganized. I am slowly changing that and would like to share as I go. I am going to talk about going green, things I do to save money, and working on a healthy family. One day at a time. I have 3 children, Josie who is 10yrs old and two babies Ike and Sam who are a year apart from each other. I am nursing and cloth diapering both babies so it does get crazy in my house. I will let you know how I manage as I figure it out.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Homemade Veggie Wash

One of my favorite household items is white vinegar. It has so many uses and it is very cheap. A vinegar wash is the most effective ways to clean your produce. It is incredibly simple (just what I need). There is a good chance your produce is dirty.

Add one part vinegar to three parts water. I am cleaning my grapes before I make raisins.

Yuck! Look at how dirty that water is.

Cleaning your produce is a very simple and easy thing you can do to make your food safer.

I came across an article on the NPR website. They did a test about using vinegar to clean your vegetables and found it to work the best.

3 comments:

mrsivyadams said...: Awesome! Thank you for sharing this. I just purchased a veggie wash from the store and thought as I paid $6 for it, "I bet I can make this at home"; April 7, 2011 at 8:38 AM
Inner-Creative-Voice said...: Great idea! I love vinegar, too:); April 19, 2011 at 11:10 AM
Unknown said...: love this!; April 30, 2011 at 9:52 PM