Cooking from scratch doesn't sound very green, but it really is. If you are cooking from scratch, you are buying less packaged food.
Take for example baking bread. If you bake your own bread, instead of buying it in plastic wrapped packages, you are saving the environment one plastic bag a week from going into the landfill. I bake bread once or twice a week. I buy the organic flour and other organic ingredients in bulk so that there is less packaging going to our landfill.
By buying in bulk, and cooking meals from scratch it cuts down on the amount of garbage going into landfills across the country.
I know, you are reading this and saying "but I don't have time to cook from scratch". Yes you do. It really doesn't take that much longer to buy fresh, local produce and cook up a nice pot of hearty soup or stew. Think about how good that would taste over some canned soup in your cupboard.
Take for example baking bread. If you bake your own bread, instead of buying it in plastic wrapped packages, you are saving the environment one plastic bag a week from going into the landfill. I bake bread once or twice a week. I buy the organic flour and other organic ingredients in bulk so that there is less packaging going to our landfill.
By buying in bulk, and cooking meals from scratch it cuts down on the amount of garbage going into landfills across the country.
I know, you are reading this and saying "but I don't have time to cook from scratch". Yes you do. It really doesn't take that much longer to buy fresh, local produce and cook up a nice pot of hearty soup or stew. Think about how good that would taste over some canned soup in your cupboard.
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