How to eat organic for less than $5 a day.

Hosts: Marty Flanagan & Stephanie Coffey
Guest: Linda Watson - Author of Wildly Affordable Organic: Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy, and Save the Planet—all on $5 a Day or Less
Producer: Trevis Carletta
Booking: Tara Dosh

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Learn the incredible secret of how you can eat well every day—from blueberry pancakes for breakfast to peach cobbler for dessert—averaging less than two dollars a meal.Wildly Affordable Organic: Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy, and Save the Planet—all on $5 a Day or Less is a cookbook and more, with ingenious cooking plans, shopping lists, and month-long menus for every season.

Get ready for wild savings! You’ll discover how to: ease your family into a greener lifestyle with the 20-minute starter plan; go organic on just $5 a day—or go thrifty and spend even less; take advantage of your freezer and freeze your costs; find the best deals at your local farmers’ market or grocery store; cook easy, scrumptious, seasonal dishes from scratch. Packed with tips for streamlining meals, from shopping and cooking to washing dishes, this book shows how sustainable living is within everyone’s reach.

Slow global warming with delicious dinners? Lose weight, save money, and save the polar bears at the same time? When you live the Wildly Affordable Organic way, it is possible! Join the movement to change the way you eat – and keep the change.

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About Linda Watson:

I'm the cook and researcher who started Cook for Good in the summer of 2007. I'm a home cook with a well-developed sense of curiosity, but I'm not a nutritionist or chef. I may be the only person in the world who is a member of both the International Association of Culinary Professionals and the Project Management Institute. My background in project management and procedures writing helps me write and test recipes and optimize the shopping lists and cooking plans. Da Capo Press is publishing my book Wildly Affordable Organic: Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy, and Save the Planet—all on $5 a Day or Less.

I teach classes at a wide range of venues, from the Share Our Strength's national Conference of Leaders to private salons, from Whole Foods to food banks, from Slow Food groups and co-ops to colleges and clinics. I give cooking demonstrations at farmers' markets and speak to groups who are interested in cooking great food, controlling expenses, losing weight, raising healthy children, fighting hunger, or reducing their impact on the planet. The exciting part about the Cook for Good lifestyle is that you can focus on one of those goals and create lots of other goodness as side effects.

I live in Raleigh, North Carolina, with my husband Bruce. I've had an odd but thrilling career so far, including developing a top-secret expert system for the Institute for Defense Analyses, working with Tom Clancy and Douglas Adams on computer games, riding the dot-com wave with Egarden.com, and being the director of my county political party and the Raleigh Independent Business Alliance. As Garrison Keillor says, you can do anything with an English degree!