River Cottage Cookbook Giveaway!
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is well known for his series of River Cottage cookbooks. Hugh lives with his family on River Cottage Farm in Devon, England and writes cookbooks that are part manifesto for eating a health-conscious and environmentally sound diet, and part tribute to gourmet cuisine. His recipes are written utilizing all of the delicacies found in and around his local area. His most recent book, River Cottage Every Day, focuses on simple, every day recipes he cooks for his family. In keeping with the cause he uses only fresh ingredients in the hopes that he can encourage people to move away from industrialized processed foods to more sustainable local cuisine.
We are pleased to be giving away one copy of River Cottage Every Day to a lucky Babble reader. This is the perfect book for anyone looking for new recipes for feeding their family. In it you’ll find everything from breakfast ideas for kids, lunch ideas for adults and a bunch of suggestions for ways you can reduce waste and eat a sustainable diet over the course of your lifetime. To enter to win the River Cottage Every Day cookbook:
1. Leave comment sharing how you reduce waste in your household and keep your diet focused on local, fresh ingredients.
2. The contest will run from March 27th at 10:26 ET through April 2nd at 11:59pm.
3. The winner will be selected by Random.org
4. If the winner does not accept his/her prize within 48 hours it will be given to someone else.
I belong to a local CSA farm so keep gas waste to a minimum since the food is not transported except the 5 miles by me to my home. In contrast, my trip to a grocery store is about 30 miles and the foods there have travelled hundreds or even thousands of miles. The vegetables from the farm are freshly picked that morning and are super fresh.
We signed up for a CSA share this year that will start in June. And we are very diligent with our recycling at home.
We recycle all paper products and try to eat all fruit & vegetables in season. We also enjoy shopping at the local fruit stand each week.
I make one trip to either the farmer’s market or supermarket to find what is fresh that week and plan the family’s meals around those ingredients for the week.
We also use reusable bags/baskets/ lunch containers etc to limit our waste. And I make my infant daughters baby food from home as well.
I have a 2-pronged approach to clean, environmentally friendly local eating – 1) I always shop the bulk foods aisle at my local co-op (using my own, re-usable containers) for grains, beans, spices, flour, etc. 2) I purchase fruits and veggies at the farmers market and grow my own herbs. Also, we ALWAYS recycle and compost, which brings the amount of trash we throw down to basically nothing.
I keep my diet focused on local, fresh ingredients and reduce waste in my household.
We have a compost pile, grow our own little veggie garden and pick our own and shop at local farm stands through the growing season here.
My needs that can’t be met by my own Vegetable garden are bought @ my local Farmer’s Market. My husband takes lunch to work (consisting of our left overs from the dinner the night before, limiting our waste) We recycle any and everything that our cities recycling program will allow, from news paper to plastics, and even Christmas Trees (they mulch them) This growing season (our first in our new home) we are building a compost bin to further reduce the waste, The Mister is considering our options for Rain Barrels also! It was the way I was raised and I’m hoping that the same will hold true for my son when he has his family!
We started composting!
We try to eat local as much as possible, have a garden, and love to scavenge in the woods for berries and mushrooms. The kids are turning into little gourmets. We try to rduce our waste by composting and sending the kids to school with there bento’s, and recycling.
We recycle all we can from glass to paper to plastics. I have a composting bin and we have land for a garden and there is a pond on the land and It is the water supply for the garden. We walk when possible and only shop when we have too. I have gone paperless on bills and statements. We recycle scrap paper from school and mail. We even recycle printer paper and use the other side of all paper in the printer.
Farmers market
My cousin grows a big garden to share with the family (us included). My Mom, daughter and I can, preserve and freeze some of those wonderful goodies for the times we can’t get fresh and of course share them with the cousin. I also try to use canvas shopping bags and recycle when possible.
Where I live its not always easy to buy fresh local produce other than at the local supermarket but when I do shop I always buy british. When I buy fruit and vegetables I only buy what I need for myself and husband so we don’t waste. We recycle everything we have a wormery which we use for fertiliser and compost in our garden and we try to grow some vegetables. We buy things that do not have alot of packaging and items within the household we take to cancer research or st luke’s hospice. any wood items such as furniture my husband will use in his workshop to dismantle and make other things from. We don’t buy magazines or newspapers we go online. We have always cooked from scratch, we tend to my lots of cookery books as myself and my husband love to cook and bake – My husband makes our bread, we grow our own herbs and use for saucers and marinades. We go to carboot sales and fairs to sell unwanted items. Basically we try to make most things ourselves without buying them.
We recycle and purchase from the local Co-op when we financially are able. Farmers Market starts up again in a couple weeks!
I have my own garden and shop at our local farm markets for any other produce that we need. I compost my kitchen & garden waste. I can & freeze from the farmers markets so that we have produce for the winter. We do not buy individual drinks or bottled water, we fill our own reusable container. We recycle all other products that we can. We refurbish household items rather than buy new. I hold hazardous waste until hazardous waste day in our community…no batteries or spray cans in your recycle or garbage
I walk or bicycle everywhere that I can. 
I live in a co-op with 11 people, we share vegetarian and mostly vegan food, recycle, will sign up to a CSA and are starting a garden.
Rather than plan meals for the week and then go to the market to buy the ingredients, I go shopping first and purchase what is fresh and local, and then plan my meals around those ingredients.
I also have a reusable plastic water container that I use every day, rather than buy disposable plastic ones that accumulate and create extra waste.
We recycle paper, glass, plastic. Farmers’ Market as much as we can for local produce.
We use cloth bags to shop at local farmer’s market, it is also about 2 miles from my home. So that saves a lot of gas. Mostly, we walk or bicycle to our nearby stores. We have decided to support our local farmers and eat seasonal produces. Offlate I have been blogging about my shopping experiences in my food blog.
We buy only what we need, make our own bread and yogurt, use leftover chicken/beef/turkey bones for stock (incorporating collected veg scraps), use a Brita filter instead of buying bottled water, and we always use cloth bags to tote our groceries home — hopefully from the farmers market!
Cheers,
*Heather*
Belong to local CSA program,compost,recycle anything and everything,walk /bike wearever possible,recycle rain water for our garden and landscaping