ClimateActionEating

What foods to choose

Pick recipes based on the ingredients you already have (search online or use books like Jane Grigson’s Vegetable Book and Fruit Book) and try a seasonal cookbook like Anna Jones’ A Modern Cook’s Year.

What you already have!
Seasonal
Local
Organic if you can afford it

Diet carbon calculator: https://cat.org.uk/lauras-larder/

Per food item: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46459714

The difficulty with data: https://ecocore.org/go-vegan-to-stop-climate-change-it-should-be-obvious/

Supermarkets vs Local Shops

Processed products impacts. Each supermarket has around 50,000 lines, each with its own unique background & impacts.

While trying to be non-political, the best way to describe this is that supermarkets are super-efficient at profit-making compared to local shops and markets, and environmental (and social and governance) impacts are consequently greater.

Shopping at supermarkets - guide: https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/shopping-sustainably/article/what-are-supermarkets-doing-about-plastic-ahzAC2s22tXv

Food Waste

Love Food, Hate Waste - currently Food Waste Action Week https://lovefoodhatewaste.com/

Worm bins, bokashi, compost heaps (see also Growing your own)

Packaging

Plastic packaging doesn't have a big influence on personal carbon footprints, collectively it is significant from an emissions point of view and horrendous from a plastic pollution point of view.

No packaging online shop: https://www.goodclub.co.uk/shop

Growing Your Own

Balconies, gardens, allotments - now is the season to get planting

Cooking and Eating Efficiently

Eat together when possible! Bigger meals with more people mean more efficient cooking and less waste.

Defrost food in the fridge, make sure hot food cools outside the fridge before putting it in.

Many micro-actions we can take.

With energy prices set to increase and increase, this could be a double win

Eating Out

Mildred's, vegan, Soho

Spring, Somerset House posh left-overs

Miscusi, sustainable pasta, Covent Garden

https://wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/cities-meat/eating-out-without-costing-earth

Course on Cooking Cheaply

How to make nutritious, cheap meals https://bagsoftaste.org/

Film

No Impact Man - one NY family's attempt to live with zero impact on the environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW5_R-7BClY

Last Challenge

Dr Michael Mosley's Fast Diet ( 5:2 diet ) based on the Horizon documentary "Eat, Fast, & Live Longer". http://livingwithdisability.info/fast-diet/

Community

In Waltham Forest: https://www.hornbeam.org.uk