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...
by Jenny Jay - Easy Meals For The Planet | Mar 10, 2017 | Soups, Salads, and Sides
Let’s check out some carbon footprint calculations for three different butternut squash recipes, two of which have an impressively low carbon footprint. The main ingredient in all of them, butternut squash, has a particular low carbon footprint, with a CO2-eq...
by Jenny Jay - Easy Meals For The Planet | Dec 2, 2016 | Main dishes
This recipe works especially well if you are cooking for picky eaters, because you can customize small pans of lasagna to order! If you have kids, you can just put out the dry noodles, cashew cream (which you spin up in the blender), red sauce, and extras in front of...
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