just food. eat seasonally.

"With my husband out of the kitchen this week,

I have cooked up bangin' sustainable meals every night!"

This Weeks Meals
Asian Seasonal Broth with tofu wontons*
Pad Thai (the best I've ever made)
Pumpkin & Walnut Ravioli with Beetroot and Pear (made it up!)
Orzo Seasonal Salad* (with Roast chicken wrapped in bacon for my husband)
Lentil Burgers* with pineapple and baby spinach

Inspired by 'The Just Food Festival' hosted by the Justice Project in February of this year, I started a journey to become more sustainable in what I buy, cook and eat. Well, I did have a bit of a head start, I'm already a vegetarian! But I do cook meat for my husband.

Armed with the Oxfam seasonal food guide and seasonalfoodguide.com, I started out by buying in season. So its taken me a few months but I finally found a process that works for me! I plan my meals based around what fruit and vegetables are in season.

Of course it helps when the recipe tells you what season to cook it in! My husband bought me 'The Sustainable Table' Cookbook, which I love!!! Not only does it have interesting articles about the recipe contributors (Including Costa Georgiardis from Costa's Garden Odyseey SBS, key figures in Farmers Markets, Recipe Clubs, Top Restaurants and my favourite Illustrator and Children's Author Graeme Base) but it also has fantastic info about Global Food Security, Organic farming and Sustainable Meat and Fish! *Thanks Sustainable Table!Now, my household is a post-modern one and I am (most of the time!) proud to say my husband does most of the cooking in our house. This can be particularly challenging if I've made a meal plan and he just cooks as he feels. I was reading some tips on meal planning and one said that if you get your kids involved in meal planning they're more likely to eat what you cook. So my logic followed: get your husband involved in the meal planning and he'll end up cooking what you planned him to cook! It's worked so far!