FOOD
Helpful links to support the Eco Together programme.
Key:
○ = nationally (UK) relevant resource or information
◊ = national (UK) resource with representation locally, or search feature providing local information
Grow Your Own Food
○ Tips on money saving crops and how to grow vegetables from Grow Veg
Subscribe to a Veg/Fruit Box Scheme
◊ Earth & Wheat are addressing food waste. They offer a grocery box with perfectly edible but outside the strict visual standards items, and they rescue from areas of over production. The boxes include grown produce or bakery items or both. For every box ordered they donate a meal to those in need through FareShare.
◊ Riverford offering seasonal organic veg and fruit grown in UK and Europe and delivered as veg boxes; a BCorp
Use a Refill Shop for Dry Foods, Cleaning Materials and More
◊ Use the Refill app to find local refill shops and more; also find places where you can refill your water bottle, public drinking water fountains and where to get hot drinks with a re-usable cup, or food using your own containers
Eat Out Vegan (and Vegetarian)
○ Search Happy Cow to find vegan restaurants near you (Happy Cow app is also available)
Restaurants/eateries with great vegan options for the plant/omnivore meal out:
◊ Heavenly Desserts - luxury dessert restaurant with full separate vegan menu alongside their standard menu at 7 - 9 Lower Borough Walls, Bath, BA1 1QR (020 4531 2483). In Bath and many other locations across England, Scotland and Wales.
Avoid Food Waste
○ Tips on avoiding food waste from Love Food Hate Waste
◊ Use the app Too Good To Go to buy food (at reduced prices) from restaurants that would otherwise go to waste – a map enables you to search locally
◊ Use the app Olio to give away (or collect) food and household items for free with the purpose of avoiding waste – items are listed and shared with people in your local area
Learn More/Other
○ Tips on being a regenerative consumer from Regenerative Food & Farming
○ Cooking with seasonal food with recipes from Riverford
○ Work out your diet’s carbon footprint with the climate change food calculator from the BBC
○ Be informed about how much water it takes to make different food products from Water Footprint Network
◊ Get involved with FareShare the charity fighting hunger and tackling food waste