I saw this little story on the Today Show Tuesday and thought it was worth finding and highlighting here. Annie Bell Muzaurieta of The Daily Green shared five super-easy ways to "green" your diet -- and they're all beautifully simple:

1. Buy organic as much as you can. For most intelligent cooks - and eaters - these days that's pretty much a given. Or at least I hope it is. After all, it's one of the most responsible things you can do for our food supply, our health and our planet...If the wallet doesn't stretch to all organic, however, Muzaurieta provides some guidelines to help make the right choices.

2. Eat local. As Muzaurieta reminds us, the average food travels 1,500 miles (yes, one thousand five hundred) just to get to your kitchen...and to your plate...put it in those terms (and then think about the price of gas today...almost $4 a gallon around here) and two things become immediately clear - one, the sheer waste of energy that comes with buying an apple produced on the other side of the country (or world) versus buying one grown a few miles from your own doorstep and b) the reason food prices are steadily increasing along with gas prices...

3. Go Brown. Add in whole grains like brown rice (see last week's brown rice salad frenzy!), wheat, barley...check out my new fave cookbook, Super Natural Cooking for a few great ideas to get started.

 4. Opt for an organic wine. This is a fast-growing area of green food - and Muzaurieta does a nice job of explaining that  organic wine is produced from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides (and that some wines can't be labeled organic even though they're produced with organic grapes because the producer adds sulfites to it).

5. BYOB - that's bring your own bag. I've got a nice - and growing - collection of great shopping totes, but still, who knew paper could be just as negative as plastic?