https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:14:55 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-103306 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:13:20 +0000 MrsH 103306@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Less crunchy than most of the above. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-103189 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:33:14 +0000 meaganceleste 103189@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do what we can when possible: reusable grocery bags, recycling, natural cleaning products, etc. But there is alot that we could do better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-103180 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:24:09 +0000 joyjoy 103180@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Medium crunchy? I never thought of myself as crunchy, but I guess we do a lot of crunchy things.</p> <p>- all natural cleaning products at home<br /> - I rarely eat meat, and when I do it's chicken that is natural, free range, etc.<br /> - reusable grocery bags<br /> - cloth napkins and dishtowels at home<br /> - recycle<br /> - compost<br /> - eat local, organic (we're CSA members)<br /> - no plastic when possible<br /> - our cars are old, and mine is very gas efficient. Plus we carpooled until very recently.<br /> - we're hoping for a natural birth and to EBF<br /> - planning to cloth diaper, baby wear, baby led wean</p> <p>@miss-spunkin: Have you thought of vermicomposting? We live in a condo, and I vermicompost on our balcony. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-103175 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:15:25 +0000 Mrs. Bicycle 103175@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>As crunchy as we have time for. My hubby is a biology teacher, so there is no getting around it. But, there is always more we could do. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-103171 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:11:12 +0000 sulli301 103171@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are semi crunchy. We are not very good at recycling here &amp; not that it is an excuse, but unfortunately the area we live in isn't really up to the standards with it that most places are, which makes it difficult! We buy mostly organic &amp; free range meats, we cloth diaper, we practice elimination communication, I make all of DDs baby food, I exclusively nurse, etc. I want to get better about switching to all green cleaning products. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102470 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:29:52 +0000 SugarplumsMom 102470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We recycle, compost and like to grow veggies, you have to buy grocery bags here but we also use it as trash bags (we don't have much trash since we compost tons of it). DH takes the bus to work but he would walk if it was closer. I love antiques. We also love foraging for mushrooms and wild berries.</p> <p>However, we're not vegetarians, we don't usually buy organic, and would rather buy online (on Amazon) rather than paying 4x more for a local alternative (if they even have it). The buying online isn't very green but we're expecting our first baby and all the savings outweighs the environmental factors. But we live in a very environmentally friendly place, they hardly use plastic for anything and everything is packaged very simply. The problem for me is there's limited amount of items available and to get what I want locally would mean to drive around town or commute 2.5 hours to the capital where I'd have to end up looking around some more since they don't always have a website. With the effort and energy of doing all that, buying on Amazon isn't so bad. The only alternative would be to live without and I'm not ready for that yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102464 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:16:37 +0000 808love 102464@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are semi-crunchy. We have worms (compost) and feed them off and on, we cloth diaper, cloth wipe and EC, EBF, babywear, recycle and go to the Farmer's Market when it's convenient, reuse our plastic bags, line dry half of our clothes, made our own baby food, pre-registered for the Nissan Leaf but didn't get one, and bought glassware and threw out most of our tupperware. Most of our decisions are based on if it's COST-EFFECTIVE, first and foremost, then if it good for the earth and convenient for us we do it. We buy organic when it's on sale or if it looks really tasty. I just put up our mango from our tree on Craigslist and offered to swap them with other fruit lovers. That was a very crunchy thing to do. We'll see if I follow through. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102310 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:25:09 +0000 Red 102310@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't consider myself crunchy but we do a lot of crunchy things:</p> <p>- we recycle<br /> - don't eat processed foods / make a lot from scratch<br /> - ride my bike where I can<br /> - own a prius<br /> - EBF<br /> - babywear<br /> - gonna start a garden (this weekend!)<br /> - use green cleaners<br /> - eat organic when we can<br /> - buy some produce from local farmer's mkt </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102286 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:53:25 +0000 cupcakemama 102286@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not crunchy at all. Tbh, proudly so.</p> <p>We recycle, buy local. We cook from scratch and don't buy a lot of processed food. We have energy efficient light globes. Dh rides to work every day, I try to do as many errands locally so I can walk. I run outside instead of on a TM. I EBF til LO was 8 months and make most baby food. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102272 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:28:25 +0000 banana 102272@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would say I'm a wanna be a crunchy mama. I grow some of my own vegetables (but not all) and when I buy from the store, I try to buy locally grown. I made all of my baby food from scratch, breastfed, co-slept/no CIO, carried the baby a lot, try to go as green as possible. BUT we have a gas-guzzling SUV and we don't always recycle as much as I'd like. And tried cloth diapering early on and gave up. And use some plastic stuff here and there (mostly trying to go with silicone or glass). So yeah, I'm a wanna be! lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102236 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:33:20 +0000 MsMamaBear 102236@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really, organic for dirty dozen, reuseable grocert bags, cloth diaper and Honest diapers for daycare. That's about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102231 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:31:15 +0000 anbanan15 102231@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: EBF = exclusively breast fed/feeding</p> <p>DS and I are vegan and DH pretty much only eats chicken/eggs., We cloth diaper, practice elimination communication, baby wear, co-sleep, make our own baby foods. We use organic, all natural products, and glass/paper whenever possible. We try to make as much as we can and repurpose whatever possible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102132 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:16:01 +0000 BSB 102132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had to google 'crunchy', too.</p> <p>Living in Seattle has gotten me to be more crunchy than I used to be. I do try to think of the environment as much as I can but I'm practical about it. I still have a budget at home. If I had money, I would probably be more crunchy.</p> <p>I am going to use cloth diapers. I recycle and compost as much as I can. (We see compost containers everywhere in Seattle. I wish I could have my own compost but we live in an apartment complex and not much space.) I started saving money and gas by taking the bus. I harp on my husband when he doesn't recycle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102130 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:15:10 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 102130@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: I AGREED WITH THE IMPORTANCE OF BUYING LOCAL....WE LOVE THE CO OP BY OUR HOUSE! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102129 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:14:48 +0000 yoursilverlining 102129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don’t think of myself as “crunchy” but….</p> <p>We buy as much locally sourced food as possible to reduce the impact on the environment from importing foods (kills me to walk into Whole Foods in the middle of strawberry season and they only have organic strawberries shipped from CA, when there is a wonderful strawberry farm literally 5 miles or less down the road!!!!).</p> <p>We used recyclable grocery bags, and recycle all of our plastic/glass/cardboard/etc. Last summer we saved our veggie scraps for a neighbor with a compost bin.</p> <p>We use cloth dishtowels instead of paper towels, and cloth napkins instead of paper napkins.</p> <p>I don’t buy any skincare products that have been tested on animals, and try to avoid those with animal by-products in them.</p> <p>I do drive an SUV, but I drive less than 8k miles a year, and I buy carbon credits that offset my SUV’s carbon footprint so I don’t feel bad about that (plus, I live in Maine where it snows, a lot, so 4WD is very handy/necessary). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102125 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:13:02 +0000 T.H.O.U. 102125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm finding myself more and more "crunchy" but usually its because I find it cheaper, healthier, and not that much harder.<br /> - I EBF (exclusively breast feed)<br /> - Started using cloth diapers<br /> - Hang dry clothes<br /> - started a garden<br /> - Use natural cleaning products<br /> - compost </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102121 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:07:49 +0000 heffalump 102121@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, not crunchy. I do some things (recycle, reuse, cloth diaper, etc. But I know I could be doing way more. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102111 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:58:46 +0000 skibobrown 102111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Let's see...<br /> - We definitely recycle<br /> - We try to buy our produce from the local farmers market, and we buy organic from the grocery store when possible<br /> - We're planning on cloth diapering our baby<br /> - We use some (but not all) natural cleaning products<br /> - DH takes the train to work, and I was taking a vanpool until recently<br /> - We're thinking of purchasing a plug-in hybrid for DH's next car (although my car is a small SUV w/ not great gas mileage)<br /> ...so yeah... pretty crunchy, but we still do plenty of non-crunchy things for convenience sake. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102109 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:54:12 +0000 regberadaisy 102109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What is EBF?<br /> Just googled "crunchy"...interesting.</p> <p>I'm not all about "organic" after learning a bit about the process. I'm more concerned w/buying local and certified naturally grown than "organic". We try when we can to buy items that are at the very least in state. But it's not always possible.</p> <p>I make our own laundry detergent and dishwasher powder. I hang dry when possible. SUPER excited to have a clothesline at the new house!</p> <p>We use minimal variety of cleaning products and with the exception of bleach they are all green products.<br /> We recycle pretty much everything.</p> <p>Biking to work is not a possibility for us but I take the train daily.</p> <p>We will be finally starting to compost at the new house. Grow our own veggies.<br /> I save all old tshirts to use as rags but I think that's more being frugal than anything!</p> <p>You just have to be careful not to get "Green Washed"!!!</p> <p>@miss-spunkin:<br /> They sell small indoor composters that are made to keep in smells! We registered for one but no one bought it for us! :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102107 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:48:01 +0000 Andrea 102107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not very. I do the basics like recycling and reusing, using green products, organic food, but not much else. DH wants to compost so maybe we'll do that one day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102103 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:43:56 +0000 Mrs. Pen 102103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ardently: I had planned a natural water birth too! Sadly some complications forced me to be induced, but I still went natural by not having any pain meds. I also babywear, and we co-sleep half the time (sometimes it's nice to get a break, so if he will sleep in his bed, we let him!), and I also plan to bf til 24 mos.<br /> I want a garden! My parents do, and they have a pretty big one, so all summer we eat out of it ;)</p> <p>@Mrsdaredevil: my parents compost! If we didn't live in a townhouse with no yard then we would too. Our car isn't exactly eco-friendly either. I really did want a prius, but we ended up with a ford fusion, so only about 25 mpg. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102095 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:38:09 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 102095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I guess I don't consider myself too crunchy....<br /> But we do by local and organic from a produce co-op in our city. We also buy organic dairy and all meat products.<br /> We recycle AND compost (not very many people do that any more these days).<br /> I wish we were cloth-diapering, but DH thinks it's a hassle and firmly says NO WAY.</p> <p>We both drive cars that are the complete opposite of gas-efficient.... OOPS! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102090 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:36:00 +0000 Ardently 102090@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pretty crunchy. :)<br /> Vegetarian, garden growing, glass or paper in place of plastic when possible, use organics when possible. All natural cleaning products...<br /> Plan to cloth diaper, baby-wear, co-sleep, baby-led-weaning, breastfeeding (till age 2), natural water birth...<br /> So yeah. Crunchy. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102089 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:35:14 +0000 chopsuey 102089@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not super crunchy.<br /> But we do eat organic, free range, grass fed.<br /> I try to recycle.<br /> And I EBF! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102087 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:34:05 +0000 Mrs. Bee 102087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not very crunchy. We do use all green products (as much vinegar, baking soda, etc. as possible), try to use as little plastic as possible, eat as organic as possible, don't eat canned foods, recycle of course... but we could be doing much more! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-crunchy-are-you#post-102079 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:30:54 +0000 Mrs. Pen 102079@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are a work in progress but I've made a lot of changes the last few years!</p> <p>My Public Issues class jump started me on living more green when I learned about how much of our plastic waste ends up in the oceans and how threatening it is to our oceans ecosystem. We started buying milk in cardboard containers and recycling them, then started buying milk straight from a local farm and using glass jars.<br /> We buy off the dirty dozen list, use reusable grocery bags, recycle all plastic and paper packaging/waste.<br /> We use cloth on our LO and EBF.<br /> We just bought a bike for my husband so he can commute the 2.5 miles to work this summer.<br /> We buy a lot of used or recycled items, shop at thrift stores, eat meat 1-2x a week, and only organic grass-fed meat and animal by-products.</p> <p>We also use all-natural cleaning products and reuse all the bottles.</p> <p>How about you? </p>