Eco Kitchen
How we get our food – from our gardens or from friends, family, neighbours or shops – is really important. The kitchen is where we use it. We can support low impact food production or not, and the more food we make in our home the less packaging we use.
Scroll over the numbers to see what you can do to eco up your kitchen.
Eco-food
- Cook as a flat rather than all cooking separate meals: you’ll save lots on power
- Make more food from scratch rather than buying food with lots of packaging
- Shop where you can refill your containers with bulk ingredients like oil, honey, sugar, flour etc.
- Try growing more of your own food at home, or in a local community garden
- Buy locally grown fruit and veg when you can – it’s fresher and has a lower carbon footprint than food
that’s travelled across the world - Meat and dairy products can have a large environmental footprint: try eating less of them
- Go for organic and fair trade where you can.
This will mean your food is chemical-free and
ethically produced.
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