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  • Produce in unusual shapes and sizes always put a HUUUGE smile onto my face 😆💕!!! They are often called #uglyfruitandveg 🍏🍅🥕— but I strongly disagree! I always call them “the cuties” 😍! • As much as I love them (they’re just so much more fun!!), it's shocking how hard they are to come by! Even at farmers markets, these cuties are definitely the exception and not the norm… • Well, the reason obviously isn’t because crops only grow in accordance to supermarket norms 🤪. It is because what doesn’t fit the esthetic is usually disposed of. 💔 • The reasons we waste so much perfectly edible food ranges from esthetics to not profitable enough (selling “ugly” produce at a discounted price may mean you sell less of the “pretty produce”), to “standard sizes are easier to handle in the kitchen”, to trade regulations (e.g. the ridiculously meticulous EU regulations, where they go as far as to check tomatoes with color charts 😳). • 800 MILLION people still suffer from hunger worldwide. According to the United Nations, we could feed them more than twice over with the food that is wasted globally! (source: @natgeo) • Food waste is also an environmental issue: “Growing the 133 billion pounds of food that retailers and consumers discard in the United States annually slurps the equivalent of more than 70 times the amount of oil lost in the Gulf of Mexico’s Deepwater Horizon disaster" (source: @natgeo) 😱💔 • It’s a huge issue, and even though much needs to be done on a political level, we can still contribute as individuals! We can start with what we have direct control over — our own consumption! • ► Resist the urge to fill up your fridge ► Make a shopping list to buy only the amount you need ► Don’t blindly trust the best before dates! Check the food before you toss it! ► Use up what’s about to spoil first #LoveFoodHateWaste
  • In many places across the globe, people are preparing for the holiday season! • The jolly season isn’t just an amplified emotional roller coaster ride for many 😉, but the season of an abundance of food and over the top consumption. But it doesn’t have to be! It can be less stressful and quite the mindful time if you know how! • Head over to @going.zero.waste’s blog to learn how to have a #zerowaste Thanksgiving 🧡!! • REPOST @going.zero.waste 💚💚💚 ・・・ Show stopping veggie mains for Thanksgiving is what I'm going to be crafting with this tasty zero waste grocery haul. Stuffed acorn squashes and beautiful whole roasted cauliflowers 👏👏 Thanksgiving is going to be here before we know it! And,this will be my 5th year hosting and my fourth without creating any trash. Are you hosting this year? I'm working on a HUGE resource for the blog! Including my shopping lists, guides, and recipes. I want to answer all of your questions? Is there an area you're struggling with?
  • I had been asked a lot about my opinion on the straw ban 🚫🥤. I’ve talked about it in my stories, but realized I never made it a post. • I know, it’s cheesy 🧀, but personally, I strongly believe in working together to figure out ways to make this a better place for humans, other animals, and of course the planet! ☺️💚 This is why diversity, representation, and having advocates that speak out is so important! ✊ Minorities always have a hard time to get heard, which is why it’s even more important to join forces! There is strength in numbers after all! 💪 • In my humble opinion, the problem are all the able-bodied people mindlessly using straws and other single-use convenience items 💔. Not the disabled folks that actually have a darn good reason to use a straw! My mom needs walking aids and doesn’t have a driver's license. It would never cross my mind to tell her to stop shopping online or get her groceries delivered! • A ban should reflect that, and not be implemented at the expense of those who are already the ones always being inconvenienced because society isn’t set up to fit their needs! • As a former waitress, instead of a hard ban I’d suggest to just make shops make reusables the default. In Europe 🌍, that’s the case in most places. You go to a café and you get your beverage in a real cup ☕️ by default, unless you order it to go. This reduces the waste tremendously because most people really couldn’t care less what they sip their coffee out of! • Imagine this would be the case for straws too. The default would be no straw, but you could still order a straw with your beverage and get one, no questions asked. Just like ordering any other extras like an extra shot. Even better if shops offered a range of them, like with cow, soy, or almond milk. “Would you like no straw, or stainless steel, glass, silicone, paper, or plastic straw with your caramel latte with almond milk, extra shot, no vanilla, extra foam, half sweet for here?” 😆 • That’s just my idea, it most probably has many flaws I haven’t noticed 🙈. I’m curious, what do you guys think?
  • Here are my personal favorite #zerowaste helpers for when I’m out and about. This doesn’t mean I always have everything on me though. • I pack my stuff just like how I dress according to what I plan on doing that day 🌤. If I know I’m only going to sit in a coffee shop all day ☕️ I won’t bother bringing my own water bottle or a mason jar because they most likely provide water and I’ll ask for coffee in a real mug. But if I have a lunch date or a family dinner I will bring a container for leftovers and maybe even an extra one just in case anyone decides to offer me some vegan food to take home 😇. FEEEEEEED ME!! 😹 • HANKIES Ok, these are actually the only items (except for my phone 📱, keys 🔑, and wallet 💸) that I ALWAYS carry around. Because: 1. I have allergies and a chronically runny nose. 2. They are actually very versatile. I use them to get cookies or even sandwiches whenever I don’t have a container or a dish towel with me. I’ve also bought bulk candy in a hanky before. #furoshiki I always have a cloth bag for used hankies. The cloth bag is also where the cutlery we bring to places to after we have used them. • WATER BOTTLE This one’s pretty self-explanatory. I usually refill it in public bathrooms because drinking fountains are so darn rare in Germany. • (MASON) JAR It doesn’t have to be a mason jar. Sometimes it’s just some random jam jar. We use it for: * Coffee to go * For saucy leftovers or just leftover sauces. Also for other leftovers. * Or sometimes as a substitute for my water bottle * To keep miscellaneous small items in it so they don’t get lost, e.g. bobby pins, ear buds, hair ties • What I actually have on me a lot more often than a water bottle, a mason jar, or a container is my laptop 💻. That one comes with me almost 100% of the time. Doesn’t have anything to do with #zerowaste tho. 🙃
  • Let’s talk about meal prep and trying to buy as local and seasonal as possible! • First off I have a confession… Before we went vegan and later #zerowaste, Hanno and I were living off processed foods, TV meals, and junk food 🙈. We never made anything from scratch and relied heavily on take outs! Ugh! • Going vegan 🌱 made us actually think about what the heck we were eating, and going ZW made us learn to use whole foods, because, well, processed foods are rarely sold in bulk. • In the beginning, we tried planning all of our meals 🍲 before we went grocery shopping (to prevent food waste by only buying what we’d need). But well, most recipes use ingredients that didn’t grow in the same place at the same time 🥑🥦! And even if we found recipes that used local AND seasonal ingredients, some of the ingredients might not have been available at the farmers market that week! • So we changed our strategy. We stopped planning beforehand. We'd just buy whatever local and seasonal produce was available. And instead of sticking to recipes we cooked according to “patterns”, something my mom taught me. This means we have methods of cooking things and can swap out the ingredients. It’s awesome because there’s a lot of wiggle room and it’ll always taste different! 😋 • An example for a stir fry pattern (which we use a lot): 1. Sauté garlic and/or onions and/or ginger in some oil 2. Add 1-5 ingredients (veggies and/or protein) 3. Optional: add veggie stock 4. Season with salt and/or pepper and/or soy sauce and/or sesame oil and/or curry and/or other spices 5. Optional: Garnish with herbs like green onions, basil, mint Rule: Don’t go too crazy, keep it simple. The more you add the higher the chances of ingredients that don’t go well together. (More on this in my book, link in bio) • Head over to my story to see what we made from some of the things in this picture!
  • We use a cotton rag, this wooden brush with agave fibers (head can be replaced and composted), and a copper scrub to do our dishes. • Cotton rags are easy to clean. Just pop them into the washer with your next load. The copper scrub only needs a good rinse or a good brush (with the wooden brush). But yeah, wooden brushes need a bit of a different approach 😉) • To prevent these kinds of brushes from becoming moldy, they will need to be dried. Putting them onto a sunny window sill is perfect, because ☀️ also kills germs! • When it gets colder and sun shine becomes a rare thing we crave, we put the brush onto the radiator. • However, depending on where you live, wooden brushes can be hard to come by. We are very fortunate this traditional craft is still being kept alive in Europe! As far as I know, there is not a single traditional brush maker is all of North America! (I hope I‘m wrong though! If you know one, please let me know!) • These tips also help to prolong the life of any plastic brush you use 😊 #usewhatyouvegot

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