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Guide to Deals and Discounts on Healthy Food
Janelle Sorensen
Monday, August 03, 2009
Whether you’re an avid coupon clipper or just getting started, this guide will be one of your new best friends for finding the greatest deals on some of the healthiest foods. Every little bit helps take the sting out of the premium price tags typically associated with organic foods and over time this list will be worth hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars for you. Bookmark it and revisit it whenever you’re making your grocery list.
Search Tools and On-line Shopping:
• Retail Me Not: Enter key words or store names to search over 90,000 coupons.
• Ecobunga: Great guide to giveaways and deals on food and beverages, as well as many other eco-friendly products.
• Health eSavers: Has a wide variety of products (not all organic or natural) and the offers change monthly.
• Mambo Sprouts: This is a great site for organic and natural coupons, giveaways and more. You can even sign up to have a whole coupon book mailed to you.
• Drugstore.com: This isn’t a coupon finder, but an on-line store. They have a green and natural store where you can find discounted organic baby and toddler food (among other things). There’s free shipping on orders over $25 so it’s definitely worth checking out.
• Amazon.com: Yep! Amazon now has an on-line grocery store with a sizeable organic section and many sales and discounts. Use a scrutinizing eye, though, as many things appear to be discounted but don’t really end up being less than what you’d pay at a store. Also, you have to figure in shipping. They do have a membership plan where you can pay $80 for a year of free shipping, but that cost must be figured into your overall budget to calculate if you’re really saving money or not.
Specific Manufacturers
(Some of these sites have downloadable coupons and some you have to sign up for a newsletter that has special offers. Some offers are only for a limited time and change often so check back regularly.)
After the Fall
Brown Cow Farm
Coleman Natural
Country Choice Organics
Earthbound Farm
Earth's Best
Eden Foods
Hain
Health Valley Organics
Horizon Organic
Imagine Foods
Laura’s Lean Beef
Knudsen Juice
Organic Prairie
Organic Valley
Mrs. Meyer's
Pearl Soy
Seventh Generation
Simply Organics
Stonyfield Farms
Whole Foods Market
(Note: Inclusion on this list does not imply endorsement.)
Did we miss something? Add it to the comments.
Photo courtesy of Christopher Gavigan.
Posted by Stacy on 08/05 at 11:48 PM
Kids Konserve offers reusable, waste-free lunch kits. The stainless steel containers are wonderful!
To get 15% off I used coupon code: healthykid
http://kidskonserve.com/
Posted by Serendipity is Sweet on 08/06 at 08:12 AM
Wow, great resources. Thanks for sharing them. I’ll pass this on.
Posted by Mommy Goes Green on 08/09 at 11:06 PM
I’ve written about a couple other ways to purchase organic groceries on a budget on my site (http://mommygoesgreen.com/2009/04/organic_shopping/). These include: buying in bulk, outlet grocery stores, buying from a farm and growing your own.
Posted by werbeartikel shop on 08/11 at 04:56 PM
I want to eat more healthy food. My family usually eat sandwiches and chips for lunch or steaks for dinner, but I’d like to add more variety with vegetables, pasta and fruit. I’m also trying to diet. Any websites or books would be helpful. Also, is Nori absolutely needed to make rice balls, or can you make them without it?
Posted by Allie on 09/26 at 05:11 PM
Check out The Good Guide. I learned about it after seeing Ecologist, Daniel Goleman (author of Ecological Intelligence) speak. It gives you ratings on all sorts of products and lets you know the Global Impact of such products. You’d be surprised that some of the Organics listed, for example Horizon Milk rates very low due to several factors including how they treat their cows and employees. I have changed to Stonyfield Farm milk due to their higher rating and comparable cost. Check out the sit, its new and neat and it includes things like where an item has to ship from, if the company donates to charity, if the food is organic, if the food process uses water or wastes resources. It gives a products full life cycle to determine its global impact.
Posted by Laura on 09/28 at 01:52 PM
I have discovered some great products made by a company called Vita-Spelt. All of their products are made 100% wheat free with an ancient grain called spelt. Their products are delicious, and contain products that haven’t been engineered like most commercial grains. According to their site spelt has more fragile proteins and are easier to break down so there is less stress on the body. I’ve found this is a great alternative for me and my family.
Posted by Susan on 08/04 at 10:59 AM
Natural Living Magazine has a few internet printables as well: http://offers.e-centives.com/mcp/?id=84f7a03f-e481-4081-a888-806fce193e27
I have some additional links on my site. Coupons.com has some organic coupons every once in a while too.