Responsible eating: 3 simple actions to implement on a daily basis

What if we adopted a healthier diet for our health and our planet? Air and soil pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, water and energy consumption: our diet has an impact on the environment and our health. The food transition is essential, so today, we're going to give you 3 simple actions to put in place on a daily basis to adopt a responsible diet.

Reduce your meat consumption

We eat 3 times a day and the choices we make have a considerable impact. Deforestation, water stress and water pollution, greenhouse gases: meat consumption has a major impact on the environment. Therefore, gradually reduce your meat consumption by favoring organic meat produced in your country. 

Change your diet by consuming more plant-based products, which have a lower environmental impact than animal products. Promote combinations of cereals and vegetable proteins by rediscovering legumes that have a very interesting nutritional profile. 

Eating local, organic and seasonal

You reduce your environmental impact by favouring organic and sustainable food that is produced locally and seasonally.

In this way, you limit the journey from the field to your plate, but also the consumption of energy and natural resources to produce this food. So it favours small local producers in short circuits. You can search for organic producers or relay points near you that offer their products.

To adopt a responsible diet, choose seasonal fruits and vegetables. When buying them, we accept their small aesthetic defects, because they are perfectly edible. They provide our body with all the nutritional benefits we need at this time of year. In addition to encouraging short circuits, you protect the environment. When we consume products out of season, we import these products from the other side of the world, which are transported by plane or boat. They are chemically coated and over-packaged so that they can be stored for as long as possible.

All in the kitchen

When you cook, you know exactly what you're putting in your dishes. In addition to saving money, you reduce your waste and avoid swallowing the dozens of additives present in ready meals. Make your menus in advance, this way, you do your shopping without buying too much and wasting too much. If cooking is more of a constraint than anything else for you, you can adopt the Batch cooking technique. It consists of preparing all the menus for the week in a single cooking session.

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