Saturday, February 25, 2012
Review at Giveaway at Open Hands Blog
Check out the great review of A Happy Green Life Laundry Wash and enter to win a bag of laundry wash http://openhands31.blogspot.com/2012/02/happy-green-life-was-started-by-amanda.html
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
A Happy Green GIVEAWAY
A Happy Green Life just reached over 500 fans on facebook! As a thank you to everyone who has joined the fun on our page we would like to GIVE YOU PRIZES!! Enter below it is super easy!
Monday, February 20, 2012
Scent
Are scents in A Happy Green Laundry Wash Bad?


-Amanda
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Laundry Balls!


Like I said it’s not pretty. So what is a staticky family to do? The answer is something I am very excited about, Dryer Balls!
A dryer ball is ball that when placed in your dryer with your wet clothes helps to lift and separate the clothing, reducing static and drying time, and leave your clothes soft and fluffy-without all of the horrible toxins (the technical explanation for a dryer ball is that it improves the circulation of heat and air through the wet clothing).
Dryer balls run about $10 on average and last approximately one to two years, a much better deal in the long run than those toxic dryer sheets. Even better they reduce drying time by up to 40%. This will cut the cost of your energy consumption and your electric bill!
I don’t know about you but I think that toxin free and economical are two great reasons to make the switch. There are many different dryer balls out there, our favorite are Bouncing Woolies! Not only are they free of chemicals, these are 100% natural wool. Even better they can come scented so that your clothing smells amazing when they come out of the dryer!
To purchase Bouncing Woolies check out www.bouncingwoolies.com or check out http://www.ahappygreenlife.com/ where you can find woolies scented to match your favorite laundry wash!
-Amanda
-Amanda
Giveaway!!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Bouncing Woolies
A Happy Green Life is excited to announce that we are now carrying Bouncing Woolies dryer balls! We LOVE dryer balls! They are a natural and GREEN alternative to dryer sheets and fabric softeners.

Dryer Balls are a green alternative for a couple of reasons. First, they are reusable and instead of throwing a dryer sheet away after one use, you can use a dryer ball again and again. Second, they are free of many harsh chemicals that are used in common fabric softener products. Third, they actually will reduce the time it takes to dry your clothes, reducing the amount of energy (and money) wasted! And fourth, they are made from wool, a renewable resource!

We hope that you will try them out and we know you will love them as much as we do.
Have A Happy Green Dryer with Bouncing Woolies!

Dryer Balls are a green alternative for a couple of reasons. First, they are reusable and instead of throwing a dryer sheet away after one use, you can use a dryer ball again and again. Second, they are free of many harsh chemicals that are used in common fabric softener products. Third, they actually will reduce the time it takes to dry your clothes, reducing the amount of energy (and money) wasted! And fourth, they are made from wool, a renewable resource!

We hope that you will try them out and we know you will love them as much as we do.
Have A Happy Green Dryer with Bouncing Woolies!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Monday, February 6, 2012
Meatless Monday
Its Meatless Monday and we are hungry! Tonight we are having:
Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes with Spinach and Coconut Milk
Serves 4
4 sweet potatoes
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 tablespoons minced gingerroot
2 teaspoons Thai red curry paste
1 ¼ pounds flat-leaf spinach (stems remove removed unless very thin, then chopped)
Salt
1/3 cup unsweetened coconut milk
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
1. Move an oven rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 400. Lightly rub each potato with a little oil. Place the potatoes on foil liked baking sheet and bake until the skin is crisp and skewer slides easily through the flesh, about 1 hour and 10 min. Remove the baking sheet and set aside to cool. Increase oven to 450
2. While the sweet potatoes are cooling, heat the 2 tablespoons oil in a large saucepan over medium heat until shimmering. Add the ginger and curry paste and cook until fragrant. Add the damp spinach, cover and cook, stirring once or twice until completely wilted, about 5 minutes. Add salt to taste, then set aside.
3. Using a folded kitchen towel to hold the hot sweet potatoes, cut each one in half lengthwise. With a spoon, scoop the flesh from each half in to a bow, leaving ¼ inch of flesh and skin in each sell, place potatoes back on baking sheet.
4. Mash the sweet potatoes in the bow with the coconut milk until smooth. Stir in the spinach mixture and cilantro Adjust seasonings to taste.
5. Mound the sweet potato filling into each shell. Bake until the top is firm and crisp, about 15 min.
-Amanda
-Amanda
Saturday, February 4, 2012
urban gardening
We love this! If you don't have room to garden make it with things around your house! We found this great idea of using empty soda bottles to grow your veggies from http://www.urbanorganicgardener.com/ this is awesome!
Farmers Almanac
According to the farmers almanac we can start planting this weekend! Before the Super Bowl we will be prepping our veggie garden! Check out the Farmers Almanac Gardening Calender to see when you can start planting in your area http://www.farmersalmanac.com/calendar/gardening/
Thursday, February 2, 2012
A Happy Green Cause
If you haven’t noticed yet we here at A Happy Green Life like food, in fact we LOVE food. Chef Mike is a professional chef and the rest of us are professional eaters. When we heard the statistic that 1 in 5 kids, over 16 million children, don’t know how they are going to get food each day we were shocked. Between our two families we have four kids and tons of nieces and nephews; the idea that any of these innocent children could be hungry or that any of their friends might be, broke our hearts.
We know how tired and cranky our own kids get when they are hungry, heck we know how crazy and cranky we get when we are hungry, imagine feeling that way all the time. Imagine being too little to get food, or too embarrassed to tell people that you need something to eat.
Kids who are hungry are sick more often, recover slower and are more likely to be hospitalized. They get headaches, stomachaches, colds and ear infections. They cannot learn as much, as fast, or as well and they lack the nutrients that they need to concentrate and perform well at school.
There are more than 16 million children in our country suffering from these problems. These kids are the hope for the future, they will one day be our doctors, scientist, and teachers but they are not going to make it if they don’t get something to eat.
We here at A Happy Green Life have decided that we need to do something. We are partnering with SHARE OUR STRENGTH NO KID HUNGRY to end childhood hunger by 2015. We ask you to take the pledge with us to end childhood hunger. http://nokidhungry.org/
In addition to everyone at A Happy Green Life taking the pledge, we will be donating a portion of the proceeds from every Doodle Bug Natural Laundry Wash purchased to the SHARE OUR STRENGTH NO KID HUNGRY program.
Just $1 can help a child connect to up to 10 healthy meals through the program. Hopefully we can get these kids not just 10 healthy meals but three healthy meals every day for the rest of their lives.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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