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Food provenance and food waste 8 ways to reduce food miles (1) Buy local,…
Food provenance and food waste
8 ways to reduce food miles
1) Buy local
Buying food from your local area is the best way to reduce food miles, followed by food from the region.
Even choosing food from anywhere within the UK is helpful in reducing food miles.
Choosing locally produced food can make the biggest impact on food miles so it is important to read food labels.
2) Shop at farmers markets
A great place to source local seasonal foods is at famers and organic markets
3) Grow your own vegetables
having a vegetable patch, no matter how large or small means that you can produce meals that have not created any food miles
4) Eat seasonally
This ensures that you are eating foods that are produced locally for your area, e.g. strawberries in the summer.
Plan your meals around what is being harvested around you at the time
5) Pick your own
Go to local farms where you can pick anything from raspberries to asparagus
6) Learn to cook from scratch
a lot of convenience foods are not made locally
They come from national food producers and are then packaged for the individual stores
7) Walk or cycle to the shop
If you only have a couple of things to buy and a shop within walking or cycling distance, consider a walk rather than going by car
8) Shop less frequently
Go once a month or less by making use of stockpiling techniques so that you are never without the things you use most and can create meals from scratch