There are many ways an Eco Superhero can help Planet Earth just by making easy changes in her diet. Check out this list:
Have a glass of organic wine- Eat good food, not crap.
- Eat like your grandmother.
- Buy organic produce — some foods are much more important than others.
- Try new grains that are actually old.
- Read a good book! Recycla recommends this one or one of these.
- Clean out your pantry. Get rid of processed crap and add in some healthy stuff.
- Drink milk like a European. That’s right, no BGH. And, while you’re at it, get skim or 1%.
Eat a 100% local meal each week. And that’s not a meal from a local McCrap, either.- Cut back on the red meat and, when you do eat it, go for grass-fed beef that’s raised compassionately.
- Shop at a farmer’s market, food co-op, or CSA. For more on CSA’s, read here.
- Eat butter, not fake stuff. Yeah baby!
- Buy heirloom tomatoes or other produce. For info on growing your own, click here.
- Spice up your life. Try some new herbs and spices and clean the old outdated stuff out of your cabinet.
- Go vegetarian at least twice a week. That’s right, put away your steak knife and instead enjoy some meat-free foods, such as beans and rice or tofu. The cows and chickens will thank you, as will your heart.
- Cook with olive oil. Yeah, yeah, Recycla knows she told you to eat butter, but she suggests you saute your veggies in olive oil and save the butter for toast. Again, your heart will thank you.
- Support the arts, er, artisans.
- Learn more about Alice Waters — an Eco Goddess — and read her book The Art of Simple Food.
- Gimme some sugar — not high fructose corn syrup. HFCS is yucky stuff, buy foods that have sugar instead.
Say cheese! Not processed cheez, but the really good stuff.- Eat bread. Really it’s okay. The Atkins Diet has long since been debunked. So go to a local bakery and buy some yummy homemade whole what bread. If you’re feeling really ambitious, make your own. (And share with Recycla!)
- Go brown.
- Drink fair trade coffee. Even Starbucks is doing it.
Hug a chicken. Okay, not really, but buy eggs from cage free hens.- Watch the movie Fast Food Nation. Make sure you’re done with you’re popcorn by the end, which is a bit, um, visual.
- Try tofu.
- Eat slow food, not fast food. For more on this, click here.
- Just say no — to fast food. Yeah, yeah, it’s been said before, but it’s important.
- Chocolate is necessary to life, so treat yourself to organic. You know you’re worth it. Recycla likes this and this and definitely this.
- Email Recycla and Enviro Girl and let them know what you’re doing and what other ideas you have.
List (with a few modifications) courtesy of The Daily Green.
Updated to add: This entry got a nice mention on Thin By 35!
