Day 4: Thinking back

What did I learn this week that surprised me?...

Well, surprised me the most this week was something that I've been trying to prove to my mother for years. Organic food isn't really all that more expensive than regular food! We went to Big Y yesterday to do the shopping for an imaginary family consisting of two adults and a ten year old child. We were shopping for one week's worth of food, 3 meals a day for each of them, and we had a maximum amount of $100 to spend.

Ayla and I started off buying the cheapest of everything we could find, $1.99 Captain Crunch cereal, bulk bags of rice and beans etc. But then when we started adding them up we realized it really wasn't costing that much money. So we decided to go organic.

We went around and replaced our cereal, milk, snack food and eggs with organic or happy animal products. And we still came in under the budget!
I'm very excited to tell my family this because we're always saying we'd like to buy and eat organically but that it's too expensive. But now I think we can! Very cool.

The "enduring understanding" I'll take away? Uhm...probably the lights one. Since I've been shutting off the lights for school it's been happening a lot more often than when my mom was yelling at me to. I still sleep with the light on at night, and I still shower with the mini-light on but I have definitly gotten better. Hopefully soon it'll become a habit for me.

I would share everything. It seems that people like to come up with excuses for all their bad habits like "organic food is too expensive" "I can't see without the lights" "I forgot" "But I need my makeup because without it I look like Dracula or Edward Scissor hands!" Oh boohoo. I admit, I've said a few of these before too but, we all need to just suck it up and deal because the fate of the world is in our hands! That sounds a little dramatic but, you get the point.

So yes, the answer the question and get back on topic, I would tell them everything I learned; Organic isn't really that much more expensive, you can see without the lights for the majority of the day...that's why our pupils get bigger...so we can see. I'd also tell them all the facts we learned about what certain consumerism habits.
Hopefully that'd wake people up.

- Grace G