How To Adopt Green Cooking?

Earth Day has come and gone and we have not yet colored our cooking trends green! Green cooking is a new approach to cooking practices that has risen in popularity in the wake of a desperate cry for healthy and earth friendly cooking trends.

The maximum amount of dangerous gases spewed forth from our house is from the kitchen. It is up to us to control the damage caused by our cooking trends. Let me tell you how to adopt green cooking:

Green Cooking Section 1 - What you cook?

* Plan your meals - This avoids wastage and also helps you focus on food that can be prepared easily with less energy wastage. Create weekly menus such that you can reuse leftovers.
* Avoid meat - Unlike chicken, cooking beef uses up a lot of time, water and energy and it produces a considerable amount of methane. Its best to either avoid meat or restrict its usage.
* Buy and use more Raw Food and Farm fresh food in diet
* Don't buy food in containers, try to buy them in bulk and use your own reusable containers
* Choose food that cook faster like lentil as well as those that can be freezed like beans.

Green Cooking Section 2 - How you cook?

* Try and avoid using your oven, and if you really have to use the oven bake multiple dishes. If you can, opt for cooktop cooking or crockpots instead of oven.
* Multitask and use the energy spent during cooking resourcefully. For example when you boil water for pasta, take some water from here to cook another dish.
* Turn the oven off a few minutes before the dish is cooked completely and let the built up heat do the rest of the work

Green Cooking Section 3 - What else can you do?

* Good storage leads to less wastage of food.
* Keep the fridge full, fill up the empty spaces. This will help in reduced usage of fuel and energy.
* Don't leave any electrical appliance in the kitchen plugged in and try and run them after 8 PM.
* Don't keep water running while washing your dishes. Its better to use a dish washer, but always run it after its fully loaded,
* Use Organic cleaning products

These are just few of the tips you can follow as a beginner in green cooking. Do let me know, if you get better ideas to adapt your cooking style to become more earth friendly.