If you ever thought about sustainable living, you can start it from your home. Our kitchen can be a great place for us to work sustainably by getting to know sustainable cooking tips. Reducing waste, saving energy, and low impact on the environment are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to results. Here are some methods you can adopt sustainable and eco-friendly kitchen practices in your life.
1. Reduce Food Waste
Step one of sustainable cooking and eco-friendly cooking is to reduce the waste of food in our daily lives. We waste so much food, in Canada only over 50 million tonnes of food is wasted every year. When you cook, plan your meals ahead and cook according to the plan so you don’t waste food. You can also use the leftovers for the next meal if you are creative without throwing them away. You can use waste food to make compost fertilizer as a home hobby or as a business to make money on the side. Now you have reduced food waste and reduced methane and CO2 gases emitted from wasted food.
2. Use Energy-Efficient Appliances
We all use kitchen appliances like ovens, refrigerators, blenders, air fryers, and many others. But what if we choose energy-efficient appliances rather than cheap ones? They use less electricity than old appliances. It will reduce the carbon footprint of your kitchen. Not only that, some old refrigerators emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. We can mitigate that by using energy-efficient and modern refrigerators. If you can, try to limit the number of times you use an oven. It will save a lot on your electricity bill and the environment too.
3. Choose Sustainable Ingredients
If you are looking to support your local businesses, farmers, and neighborhood this is the way to go. It will help you help your people to grow and for you to practice an eco-friendly sustainable food policy. Our local farmers have a smaller carbon footprint because they do not often use heavy machinery and also they rarely use pesticides and chemicals on their plantations. You can also cook vegetarian meals more often. Did you know that meat production facilities have a very significant greenhouse emission print?
4. Use Reusable Products
If you have a habit of using one-time-use items like paper plates, paper towels, napkins, paper cups, and plastic cutlery, you can switch them with reusable items. Use actual cloth towels and napkins or use glass plates, cups, and silver or metal cutlery so you do not have to throw away these items on a daily basis.
5. Conserve Water
Conserving water in your kitchen is another way of eco-friendly cooking practice that will help you to keep up with sustainable cooking and living. Water is a precious resource and many regions of the world do not have it as an abundant commodity. We, the fortunate must make sure to conserve water because of that. If you have leaking taps replace them and if you have a habit of leaving any faucet open, just close it whenever you remember cookinganuway.
Conclusion
If you are willing to make simple changes to your life as mentioned above, you can live as a proud human knowing that you have contributed to a great cause which is saving the planet for our future generations and making the world a better place so we ourselves can enjoy it without any danger from mother nature in our lifetime.
