by Jenny Jay - Easy Meals For The Planet | Apr 23, 2017 | Desserts, Uncategorized
This recipe makes a delicious, quintessential peanut butter cookie. It’s from a great cookbook by Alicia Simpson, which you can check out here. The author has graciously agreed to let us publish her recipe and the carbon footprint on this site. Print Recipe Peanut...
by Jenny Jay - Easy Meals For The Planet | Apr 20, 2017 | Main dishes, Soups, Salads, and Sides
This recipe is crazy easy to throw together, and you won’t believe how great it tastes!! It is a staple in our house, serving as an excellent side dish for red lentil dahl (last post). Both dishes heat up well for lunches the next day. To make this dish a main...
by Jenny Jay - Easy Meals For The Planet | Apr 5, 2017 | Main dishes, Soups, Salads, and Sides
This satisfying Indian soup is delicious, super healthy, and very easy on the planet. It makes a great side dish, and if you serve it with a salad and rice or naan, it can be the main dish. Beans and lentils have an especially low carbon footprint when compared to...
by Jenny Jay - Easy Meals For The Planet | Mar 26, 2017 | Soups, Salads, and Sides, Uncategorized
Creamy vegetable soups can vary really widely in impact on the environment, because creaminess can come either from dairy (relatively high environmental impact), or from alternatives including potatoes, cashews, or soy milk (less greenhouse gas intensive). For this...
by Jenny Jay - Easy Meals For The Planet | Mar 17, 2017 | Appetizers, Uncategorized
Below is a recipe that the UCLA Public Health Nutrition Club and the Healthy Campus Initiative have been using in instruction food demos. Assuming 6 servings, the hummus results in 90 g CO2-equivalent emissions per serving. For comparison, a 1 oz slice of cheese...
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