Zoeya started at a new school last month where she takes her lunch! I pack her a yummy, healthy lunch every day in her little doggie lunch box.
Zoeya can be picky sometimes, but in general she eats a wide variety of food. She reported to me “K (a kid in her class) said my lentils are gross!”
I asked her if she thought lentils were gross. “No, I love lentils!”
Check out my recent guest post about Zoeya’s lunch box at Modern Alternative Mama: Healthy School Lunch Ideas.
Here are 3 easy things you can do to be a just little bit greener whilst cooking and lunching.
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Cloth NapkinsAlthough it’s actually greener to use recycled paper napkins at restaurants, it is marginally greener using cloth napkins at home. (See this informative little article on TreeHugger.com). Yes you have to wash them and that uses energy, but (shh) I don’t wash them after every meal. Not fancy at all, in fact quite the opposite, I get the paper napkins out for guests. Even little Zoeya takes a cloth napkin in her lunch box. |
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Kitchen ScrapsThis surprised me, but it’s actually greener to throw your scraps away than to put them down the disposal. Down the drain, they will have to be treated with chemicals and will be strained out and sent to the landfill anyway. So shift your habit! Now I can feel a little better about all those months the disposal was broken. Of course, scraps in the landfill are not much better, leftover food will sit around releasing methane, so the best thing of all to do is compost. |
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BYOFBring your own fork! This is a big one for me, I bring my lunch to work every day and I forget to do this half the time and end up using one of the plastic forks from the break room. Reducing single-use plastic products is a really important thing to do; besides filling up our landfills, plastic takes a huge toll on marine life. This is something I’m really going to focus on. I use reusable shopping bags, we have a water filter instead of buying bottled water, and I’m really going to try to remember to pack my fork. |
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