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Tips for a more sustainable diet 

  • Eat more fruit, vegetables, beans, and pulses  
  • Limit red meat consumption to no more than 70g (cooked) per person per day – find out what kind of foods 70g of red meat looks like 
  • Eat what is in season  
  • Buy local produce 
  • Where possible, grow your own food
  • Cut down on plastic packaging  
  • Reduce your food waste at home (About 70% of food is wasted in the home, try these tips from Love Food Hate Waste) 
  • Make responsible seafood choices (search for labels such as MSC and ASC)  
  • Cut down on processed foods high in fat, sugar, and salt (HFSS foods) 
  • If you choose to use organic, plant–based products such as oat, soya, or rice milks and yogurts – make sure they are fortified with added calcium and iodine 
Find an allotment in North SomersetContact your local town or parish council to enquire about their allotment provision. Contact details and interactive maps are available on this webpage. Follow link toFind an allotment in North Somerset
Eat the SeasonsUK seasonal food information, tips and recipe ideas, updated every weekFollow link toEat the Seasons
Love Food Hate WasteHelpful tips on how to reduce food waste.Follow link toLove Food Hate Waste
Sustainable Diets ToolkitOne Blue Dot is the British Dietetics Association's (BDA) Environmentally Sustainable Diet Project, created to help make our Sustainable Diets Policy a reality. To find more information and easy food swaps for environmentally sustainable diets, check out the toolkit.Follow link toSustainable Diets Toolkit
The Royal Horticultural SocietyFind out how to grow some of your own fruit and veg this year. This can help you cut food miles for at least part of the year. Apples, strawberries, raspberries, lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes and spinach can be easily grown in the UK. Follow link toThe Royal Horticultural Society
Meat Free MondaysFind out how you can get involved with the Meat Free Monday campaign. The campaign encourages people to help slow climate change, conserve precious natural resources and improve their health by having at least one plant-based day each week.Follow link toMeat Free Mondays
The Planetary Health Diet – BBCBBC Good Food offer a range of health benefit guides and information on the green diet, flexitarian diet and plant-based diets. Check out their sustainability hub page for tips on everything from reducing food waste and composting to recycling plastic.Follow link toThe Planetary Health Diet – BBC
Eat WellFood WasteNorth Somerset council collects food waste weekly from every household, except flats or groups of properties with communal recycling areas. Find out more about 'Food Waste'Save Food Waste to favourites
Eat WellSurplus FoodInformation and links to organisations that support the redistribution of surplus food to make sure it does not go to…Find out more about 'Surplus Food'Save Surplus Food to favourites
Local FoodFood in the CommunityCommunity fridges and food clubs that share free or heavily discounted food that would have otherwise gone to waste.Find out more about 'Food in the Community'Save Food in the Community to favourites

Further reading

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