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One of the best actions in my life was to avoid packaged food. Now I throw out my garbage once or twice per year. More importantly, my eating is more - Delici
by spodek 9y ago
One of the best actions in my life was to avoid packaged food. Now I throw out my garbage once or twice per year.
More importantly, my eating is more
- Delicious
- Convenient
- and Cheap
than ever. Plus more social, in that I met the farmers who grow most of my food, more people come to my place for meals, and get-togethers are friendlier.
It took a while to learn to prepare food from scratch, but worth it.
- fovc 9y agoI would love to hear more about this. Do you buy everything in bulk with reusable packaging? Does that require driving out to the farms? Do you end up eating seasonally and locally? What equipment did you have to buy to achieve this?
- spodek 9y agoI write tons about it on my blog: http://joshuaspodek.com/?s=farm http://joshuaspodek.com/?s=farm http://joshuaspodek.com/?s=fly http://joshuaspodek.com/?s=fly http://joshuaspodek.com/?s=packaging http://joshuaspodek.com/?s=packaging To answer your questions: I buy dry legumes, nuts, seeds, and grains in bulk with containers I bring to the store. Most fruit and vegetables I get from a CSA, which means picking it up weekly from a drop-off point a few blocks away. I get a lot from the local farmers markets, where I also drop off my compost. Yes, I eat seasonally and locally, not that I decided to. It just worked out that way. I didn't buy anything to start the change, but buying a pressure cooker enabled cooking lentils and beans in five or ten minutes, which facilitated things a lot. I don't buy a lot, but the pressure cooker is one of the best purchases I've made. I didn't plan to get into food and cooking. It's just that with every change I made, my food got more delicious, more convenient, cheaper, and created more community. The results, in my friends' words: http://joshuaspodek.com/food-world-reviews http://joshuaspodek.com/food-world-reviews