What Foods Should We Not Eat If We Wanted To...

[sandyRoe]

...reduce our carbon footprint?

Bananas and avocados come to mind and a lot of grain comes from the Americas or Ukraine.

[Redhelen72]

https://www.future.green/futureblog/reduce-carbon-emissions-from-food#:~:text=Eat%20More%20Plants%20and%20Less%20Meat&text=Some%20studies%20suggest%20that%20animal,way%20to%20reduce%20your%20emissions.

 

[barry1010]

Chocolate, coffee, tea, NZ lamb, cocoa, cane sugar

[Countrylover]

Ooooh I eat Avocados  most days and hate bananas.  I'm  not going up avocados!

[Rosetta]

Any citrus fruits, rice. Only eat seasonal veg, so getting to the end of the salad and tomato season. I suppose tinned tomatos would come into that list too as they are grown and canned abroad then have to be freighted here

[pastafreak]

I'm with lottie...avocado =healthy fats. And I'm not giving up my dark chocolate! 

I don't eat grains, bananas, tea or sugar. Not a huge amount of red meat....lots of eggs, pork, chicken which are UK grown/produced.

[sandyRoe]

I'd be reluctant to stop drinking tea and coffee and I'd miss oranges and bananas.  Apart from those there's not much from abroad that I'd miss.

[Rosetta]

I think vegans would struggle to survive on local, seasonal food (or processed imported food) . For all their rants about being vegan being good for the planet thet totally ignore the environmental costs of their food miles

[sandyRoe]

^. Yes, a lot of soy comes from the Americas and lentils from the Middle East.

[barry1010]

Pasta, you don't eat anything with sugar in?  No cake, biscuit, pudding, ice cream, custard, sweets, toffee, fudge?

 

[maggiebee]

Countrylover - sorry I digress, but a had this image of you going up an avocado and wondered just how you did this. You did give me a laugh on a dreich day.

[pastafreak]

I should have been more specific 🤔. I don't often buy sugar to use...there's a 2 year old box of dark muscovado at the back of my cupboard...and yes there's sugar in my dark chocolate. I try hard to avoid other things containing sugar...but I suppose even a bit cancels out my statement that I don't eat it.

Where's the edit function??? 😶🙄

[Redhelen72]

Sandy  - if you have an outdoor space I bet you could grow most of your veg and salad requirements to keep you going some of the year - and it tastes so much nicer.

I grew enough lettuce, cucumbers, spring onions, peppers  and tomatoes that I have not had to buy any in 4 months.

Potatoes, spinach, cabbage etc a good amount that I have barely bought.  Strawberries I only ate my own this year.

[Countrylover]

Ha ha Maggie.  I should check before I post!

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/rFarubEWhdI?si=0qjeYV2N1CFOhP1U

[Countrylover]

I haven't bought sugar for years but some still remains in the container but like Pasta, a little dark chocolate after dinner. Very little sweet food.  Neither of us has a sweet tooth.  We don't do desserts or cakes But I admit I quite like dark choc kitkats.  And I love sweet chilli sauce.  I buy biscuits for the gardener who comes about every three months.  Hubby loves his home made bread and adds a teaspoon of sugar.  He also eats granola.  I eat about 10 slices of gluten free bread a week.

We do drink tea and coffee though.  Hubby eats granola which is sweetened.  We don't eat much meat, and never lamb.   I suppose we should stick to British fruit and veg, but I don't.  Hubby used to grow a lot of veg, but not for the last few years.  He's too busy now being cook and house husband and having a pretty useless wife.

[Countrylover]

Useless, not pretty!

[Gromit]

Meat. Paricularly imported beef.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/13/meat-greenhouses-gases-food-production-study

[ladybirder]

Pasta if I were you I would check that 2 year old box at the back of your cupboard.  You might find more than dark muscovado in it.  🙄

[Countrylover]

I reckon our sugar might be a bit dodgy.  But sugar is a preservative.  It's  probably  demerara.  Just remembered I add a teaspoon when frying onions for pasta dishes.  We'll I did.  I don't cook any more now.  I have a manservant but im still there go give advice.

[barry1010]

Rice, bamboo shoots, most spices

[barry1010]

Melon, pineapple, lemons, oranges, kiwi, blueberry