The kitchen is the heart of the home, they say. So why do we cook, eat and use things that are bad for our health and the environment every day? These things should disappear from your kitchen. But better leave your computer so you can always connect to Vave login.
OUR LIST
1. Salad In Plastic
Banish them from your kitchen: Bagged salad
Fresh, seasonal salad doesn’t need plastic. Get rid of it: Ready-made salad not only causes unnecessary plastic waste, the packaging also creates an excellent breeding ground for mold and germs.
In with it: The alternative is very simple: buy unpackaged seasonal salad, for example at the weekly market or organic food store. Washing and chopping takes no more than 5 minutes.
Tip: On Utopia.de you can find lots of recipes for different types of salad – from rocket to lamb’s lettuce. Here are 9 tips for the ultimate salad: recipes, dressings, ingredients
2. Coffee Capsules
Banish them from your kitchen: Capsule coffee. Get rid of them: Overpriced coffee, environmentally harmful aluminum and lots of unnecessary waste – capsule coffee is perhaps the best example of how we let the industry seduce us into buying nonsensical products.
In with it: For anyone who already owns a capsule machine, there is a money-saving and environmentally friendly solution: capsules that you can refill again and again with fair trade organic coffee. And for everyone else: Here we show you how to make real coffee – without waste, fair and much cheaper: Slow coffee: these are the best ways to make really good coffee.
3. Sugary Breakfast Cereals
Instead of unhealthy breakfast cereals: fresh muesli. Out with it: Chocolate muesli, cornflakes and honey pops are not a good start to the day. Many breakfast cereals contain far too much sugar, are high in calories and don’t fill you up for long.
Get rid of them: Organic muesli made from wholegrain flakes, for example with fresh seasonal fruit and a few nuts or seeds, is healthier.
4. Affordable Meat
Banish it from your kitchen: Cheap meat. Get rid of it: Many people like to eat a lot of meat for little money. This is only possible because most animals live in cruel conditions – caged in confined spaces, bred to grotesque body proportions, treated with antibiotics and fed with soy from South America. Anyone who buys conventional supermarket meat is actively helping to finance the suffering of these animals.
Get on with it: If you care about animal suffering, you should act accordingly and preferably not eat meat at all.
5. Food Supplements
Banish them from your kitchen: Food supplements
A balanced diet provides you with better nutrients than dietary supplements. Get rid of them: Unless you have a medically diagnosed deficiency, there is no really sensible reason to take food supplements (exception: vitamin B12 for vegans). Almost all of these supplements are superfluous. Whether vitamin supplements, minerals or preparations to strengthen the immune system – the manufacturers often cannot prove their effectiveness and some products may even be harmful according to various tests.
A balanced diet is still the best way to provide you with all the nutrients you need.
