The New Year marks the new beginning of me, or at least the skinnier version of me. I imagine many women experience the same desire after all the holiday cooking and eating while stuck at home during school break and bad weather.

This might come as a surprise to many of us, but there is a cheaper and more exciting alternative to Walmart! This is hard to imagine, but we can confirm it after our own shopping comparison at Walmart and German discount chain Aldi.

With farm-to-table movement taking over the way we eat, organic food demand is on the rise. It still, unfortunately, doesn't mean that natural foods are available everywhere or that they are affordable for everybody.

Splendid Spoon and Pressed Juicery are two places where you can get some amazing smoothies. You can enjoy them as refreshments or they can substitute snacks and meals. They both have a lot to offer, including soups, sippable resets, and grain bowls from Splendid Spoon and vegan ice cream from Pressed Juicery. Our focus, however, is smoothies and only smoothies.