Sustainable Kitchen & Food
Storing vegetables without plastic: what kept longest in our fridge
We tracked eleven vegetables across four storage methods for six weeks. Damp cloth won more often than we expected.
18 August 2026 · 7 min
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Sustainable Kitchen & Food
How to shop, store and cook so that less food ends up in the bin — and meals still taste like something you want to eat.
The kitchen is where most households lose the most: food, packaging, energy. It is also the easiest place to see progress within a week. Here you'll find storage methods we've measured, seasonal cooking that works around what is actually available, and honest notes on which appliances earn their electricity.
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Sustainable Kitchen & Food
Cooking from the back of the fridge: a method, not a miracle
A simple weekly rhythm that turned our food waste from three bags a month into roughly half of one.
19 July 2026 · 5 min
Sustainable Kitchen & Food
Plant-Forward Meal Prep for People Who Hate Meal Prep
Standard meal-prep advice assumes you enjoy Sunday cooking marathons. This is the version for people who don't.
11 May 2026 · 6 min
Sustainable Kitchen & Food
Seasonal Eating: A Month-by-Month Guide We Actually Follow
Seasonal eating charts online are often generic. We built ours around what's actually cheap and abundant locally, month by month.
4 May 2026 · 9 min
Sustainable Kitchen & Food
Batch Cooking Without the Freezer Turning Into a Landfill
Batch cooking is supposed to reduce waste. Ours was quietly creating a freezer full of forgotten containers until we fixed the system.
27 April 2026 · 6 min
Sustainable Kitchen & Food
Building a Bulk Pantry: What We Buy Loose and What We Don't
Buying everything in bulk isn't automatically better. We worked out which staples are worth it and which aren't.
20 April 2026 · 7 min
Sustainable Kitchen & Food
Easy Fermentation for Beginners: Three Recipes That Didn't Fail
Fermentation guides make it sound simple until your first batch grows mould. These three recipes worked on the first try.
13 April 2026 · 8 min
Sustainable Kitchen & Food
Sustainable Meal Planning on a Fixed Weekly Budget
Sustainable eating is often framed as expensive. On a genuinely fixed weekly food budget, here's what actually worked.
6 April 2026 · 7 min
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