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Environmentally-friendly recipes and tips

Why some foods have the same carbon footprint as 5 miles in an SUV

Reducing the carbon footprint of your food can be simple if you know what to look out for.

How can you tell if your food is produced sustainably?

Is your cooking burning money and energy?

Fight food waste

Flexible recipes

Adapt your favourite dishes to use the best of the seasons in these flexible recipes.

Love your leftovers

Garden glut recipes

You'll look forward to an abundance of summer fruit and veg with these recipes to use them up.

How to cut food waste and save cash

Apps to help you cut food waste

How to make the most of your freezer

Shop smart to avoid £700 of food waste each year

Eat the seasons

Step up your cooking with foraged food

Make the most of apples

Autumnal veggie meals

Pickles and chutneys

Ways to preserve fruit

Autumnal soups

Eat more plants

Plant-based recipes

Maximising your fruit and veg intake is good for the planet and your health.

Vegan barbecue

Vegetarian pasta

Summery vegan recipes

For when it's hot... and for when it's not (but you can dream).

Veggie wraps

Vegetarian recipes and advice

Vegan recipes and advice

Batch cook to fight food waste

The batch-cook base dishes that save you time and money

Family batch cook meal plan

A budget-friendly meal plan for a week’s worth of dinners for four people.

Vegetarian batch cook meal plan

Cheap slow cooker and batch meals for one

Batch cooking recipes

Eco-friendly stories

How to eat sustainably on a budget

Can you really have a plastic-free kitchen?

The simple formula to cut your diet’s carbon footprint

Could eating British make our food supply more secure?

Is the source of 95 percent of our food in trouble?

The farmers who are trying to save the world – and how you can help

Are your favourite foods at risk of extinction?

The one change you should make to cut your food emissions

Should we worry about soy?

Can you eat meat without damaging the environment?

The trend that’s shaking up the food industry

Vegan vs. Flexitarian – which will save the planet?

Are these the worst foods for biodiversity?

What is fair trade and how does it affect your food shop?

What eating British for a week did to my bank balance and sanity

Should I worry about drinking dairy milk?

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