4 best tips to practice sustainable eating at home for a healthy body and planet
Kitchentip | 4 minute read |
Before your food arrived on your plate, have you ever wonder how did it get there? It sprouted from tilled land, eaten by animals, processed by factories, transported by trucks, sold in retail, until it made its way to your kitchen — all of which contribute to the food industry that largely threatens our environment.
As the food industry leaves huge environmental footprints on land, water, and air, some experts claim that it has the largest single impact on the planet. This is why more are willing to explore creative and sustainable ways of eating.
However, there are gaps between aspiration, action, and continuation. Food is so central to our by affordability, limited availability, socio-cultural environment and other factors. Even so, it’s not as overwhelming as you think. Here’s how you can sustain sustainable eating to have a healthy body and planet:
It can be difficult to store highly perishable greens. But choosing the right technology to keep vegetable fresh can help you save a lot of time and money compared to the traditional way. Pay attention to some tips here while keeping vegetable in refrigerator:
With the UltimateTaste 300 refrigerator, now you can prolong the veggie shelf life to have sustainable and healthy eating more easily. Its TasteLockAuto feature releases excess moisture from the chiller to reduce condensation, keeping your greens fresh for up to seven days.
When it comes to flavour, EvenTemp lessens temperature fluctuations by cooling each individual shelf, preserving taste and texture so you can savour more of your salads and smoothies.
As the food industry leaves huge environmental footprints on land, water, and air, some experts claim that it has the largest single impact on the planet. This is why more are willing to explore creative and sustainable ways of eating.
However, there are gaps between aspiration, action, and continuation. Food is so central to our by affordability, limited availability, socio-cultural environment and other factors. Even so, it’s not as overwhelming as you think. Here’s how you can sustain sustainable eating to have a healthy body and planet:
Eat more plants
Add more fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes to your diet, not only for your health, but also to help lessen the environmental damage caused by animal agriculture. It accounts for 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, making it one of the world’s largest sources of pollution. It also causes great imbalances in biodiversity when habitats of other threatened species are transformed for livestock.
It can be difficult to store highly perishable greens. But choosing the right technology to keep vegetable fresh can help you save a lot of time and money compared to the traditional way. Pay attention to some tips here while keeping vegetable in refrigerator:
- Get rid of the spoiled parts before keeping it in refrigerator
- Don’t wash the vegetable before keeping it in refrigerator
- Categorize the vegetable
- Keep them in the proper temperature
With the UltimateTaste 300 refrigerator, now you can prolong the veggie shelf life to have sustainable and healthy eating more easily. Its TasteLockAuto feature releases excess moisture from the chiller to reduce condensation, keeping your greens fresh for up to seven days.
When it comes to flavour, EvenTemp lessens temperature fluctuations by cooling each individual shelf, preserving taste and texture so you can savour more of your salads and smoothies.
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Explore different healthy tastes
Did you know there are 30,000 edible plants in the world? Take some time in the kitchen to try new recipes or give old ones your own creative whirl to diversify your palate and your food source.
Certain ingredients leave more environmental damage than others. And with global diets becoming more homogenised, we’ve been accustomed to frequently eating meat which has the most carbon footprint among all food products.
Experiment on how you can pair your greens with less meat or low-impact meat like chicken, eggs and pork. You will be surprised with the simple ingredients that can make delicious, interesting and rich dishes for you and your loved ones.
Besides using new ingredients, you can also explore proper cooking appliances to make variety of dishes for sustainable eating. Make them tastier with the Electrolux built-in oven’s SteamPro that uses steam, alongside heat, to lock in all the juiciness so you can enjoy crispy yet succulent food.
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- Smart food probe monitors core temperatures.
- LCD screen functions assist cooking with ease.
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- Different oven functions for diverse cooking.
- LED timer display sets exact cooking times.
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- Catalytic self-cleaning absorbs grease and grime.
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Easy on the food waste
To put things in perspective, food production emits so much greenhouse gases partly because it’s a basic necessity. But when this produces food that is never eaten, it’s even more pressing. The average household throws away around 11% of their consumable food in a year — making private households the biggest contributors to global food waste. But this is avoidable.
It starts with preparing food properly and making sure it’s finished down to the last morsel. But you don’t need to be a chef to perfect cooking. Therefore, to develop a healthy and sustainable eating habit, investing in an induction cooker with precise and flexible heat can help you in the preparation and preservation of food nutrition. In addition, an induction cooker is a safe, clean and energy-saving choice for a sustainable lifestyle. One of the types of induction cookers that meet the above criteria, is the UltimateTaste 700 induction hob.
The FlexiBridge function in our induction hob makes cooking more convenient. The three layout options provide more flexibility for when you're using a variety of pots and pans at the same time. Intuitive touch controls also allow for more flexibility in heat control so you get the most precise temperature — from simmering to boiling — almost instantly.
While lifestyle modifications can be pushed by motivation or habits, the secret lies in the systems that you have to build so you can “trick” yourself into adopting change. These include the tools and technology — like Electrolux home appliances solutions — that make your sustainable and healthy eating simpler, more fun and more efficient for you to change not only yourself, but also the world.
In Electrolux, we always appreciate sustainable development throught sustainable diet. Know our strong commitment to sustainable eating here.
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