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Friday, April 03, 2009

Top 7 Eco Friendly Ways To Buy and Cook Food



1. Become a locovore- Buy food that is locally grown or raised. This is beneficial for many reasons. You are eating seasonal fresh foods, lessens the carbon foot print of the food (time it travels from grower to your store, and best of all it supports your local economy.

2. Eat Seasonal Foods- It helps to minimize the environmental impact caused by foods being shipped in and it lessens the chances that you will be consuming "damaged" from the shipping process. The great news is that after you complete a season, you can can or jar food to eat when it is not in season. A few great resources for further reading on eating seasonal are:


Wonderful resource to help you eat and shop locally. The website offers the local/seasonal advise based on your state.


Has a fantastic online tool to calculate the "food miles" to help you determine what is freshest to you.


3. Be Frugal
Use up all of what you purchase and shop from a list so you will not be tempted by what the store/market wants you to buy. At the end of the week, consider making a refrigerator soup by cleaning out all the extra veggies you did not consume, you could even make the broth from a chicken or ham bone if you had one that week.


4. Eat Less Meat and More Plant Foods
Cooking Green:Reducing Your Carbon Footprint in the Kitchen New Green Basics Way by Kate Heyhoe


5. Compost food waste
compost the food scraps that you could not use up in frugal recipes. Use the compost to grow fresh fruits and veggies to feed your family.


6. Research Seafood before purchasing
Visit the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) for a list of fisheries that meet the criteria for sustainability. You also want to consider only purchasing sustainable species of fish.

The Monteray Bay Aquarium provides a seafood watch fact sheet.


7. Take the first step and start today.
You do not have to do it all right 100% of the time, but if you can make small changes in your eating and shopping habits it will really add up.

posted by Allison Ray | 7:52 AM

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