Cooking for Planet Earth: You make a difference

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It’s not just our driving habits and how much we heat and cool our homes that effect global warming. What we eat, where we do our grocery shopping and how we cook has an important effect as well. Here are many tips on how you can make a difference by changing your cooking habits.

• Eat fruits and vegetables that are in season, avoid fruits and vegetables grown in greenhouses or transported from far away.
• Avoid cans and packed food. Especially the production of aluminum cans uses a lot of energy.
• Use organic food; they have been produced without energy demanding artificial fertilizers and pesticides.
• Eat less meat. Replace the meat with vegetarian proteins.
• Grow your own fruits, vegetables and berries in your garden
• Buy fresh, local food. Shop at your local farmers market or from a community farm.
• Avoid frozen food.
• Make sprouts in your own kitchen. This is a very easy way to get inexpensive vitamins and minerals.
• Avoid food that needs long, cooled transports e.g. bananas.
• Grow your own fresh herbs in your kitchen instead of buying greenhouse cultivated herbs.
• Compost your leftovers.
• Put lid on the pots when you are cooking.
• Use water boiler and pressure cooker.
• Avoid rice since rice fields emit a lot of methane gas.
• Use product made from wholegrain since less is spoiled in the production process.
• Buy locally produced bread; remember that the whole bread should have been produced in the same place. Avoid supermarket bakeries where the dough is transported to the bakery with cold transport.
• Eat crisp bread since it’s whole grain, it has a long shelf life without preservatives and it does not weigh a lot which makes the transportation less energy demanding.
• Use the tap water (filter it if needed) instead of buying bottled water that is heavy to transport.

Climate change effects us all. It might feel far away and you might feel that what you do does not make a difference. But it does; everyone and everything counts.

Every time you make the right choice you help stop climate change. Every change you make, no matter how small, is worth while.

Do you have any tips on how we as individuals can help prevent global warming? Share you thoughts and make a comment to this post.

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