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HOME COOKING
Sustainable
Ten Reasons to Take Back the Plate
by Rich Sanders
are 10 reasons to help you get cooking with conviction.
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Home cooking saves money. At a restaurant, you’re spending dollars on the cost of running somebody’s business. Purchas- ing prepared food from the grocer’s freezer involves paying for the processing, packaging and advertising of that product. When you cook sustainably, you take savings to the next level, using locally raised and produced food, so you’re not footing the bill for transporting ingredients across the country or around the globe.
2. It’s safer
When you cook, you have more control over what goes into your body. By buying organic, sustainably raised or mini- mally treated meat, dairy and produce, you can dramatically reduce your consumption of food contaminated by chemical fertilizers, hormones, antibiotics or harmful bacteria.
3. It’s healthier
You have control over the nutritional value of the foods you prepare. Lo- cally grown food is fresher and more nutritious. Cooking methods also count. For example, roasting a vegeta- ble preserves vitamins that are wasted by boiling it; retaining the peel on many fruits and vegetables provides additional vitamins. Are you watching your salt or sugar intake or keeping an eye on fats or carbohydrates? You’re in control of all of
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e’re all cooks now. Or at least, we should be. The word is spreading about healthy home cooking and its connection to sustainable, local food. Here
these when you are the cook.
4. It tastes better
We’re losing our palates to an industrialized food system. of our food. In recent decades, our taste buds have been cor- rupted by cheap chemicals and corn syrup. We’ve forgotten how wonderfully delicious fresh food tastes because we are acclimated to food polluted with preservatives. Sustainable, lo- cal ingredients just taste better, so let good food help you take back your palate, so you can take back your plate.
- vor to suit your own (or your family’s or guests’) preferences. Once you get the hang of it, experimentation is the name of the game. As you learn to cook sustainably, you’ll begin to especially healthy for you.
You’ll discover that you derive the same sense of satisfac- tion from learning to cook sustainably that many people get from working out. By preparing healthy meals with doing something good for yourself, your family and the environment.
Many people are pledging to cut out meat one day a week for their own health and that of the planet. Meat- lessMonday.com advises that going meatless once a week reduces our risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes
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