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What do you do if you want to eat more sustainably and want to eat together, but your partner, roommate, or friends aren’t as enthusiastic?

Now that we are heading towards the winter, the amount of fresh vegetables to choose from decreases. If you would eat 100% seasonal and local fresh vegetables, your options will become quite limited. But, luckily we’ve can turn fresh vegetables into canned or frozen products. But, isn’t this worse for the climate than fresh vegetables?

Time for concern no. 3: iron. Once I’ve started to eat less meat and dairy, people would ask me about protein and two other nutrients in particular: B12 and iron. They’re instantly worried that you wouldn’t get enough of them. But is the concern justified? Let’s discover.

Maybe you’ve been eating more vegetables and less meat, but what’s next in eating more sustainably? I still visit the same good old supermarket, but should I consider alternatives? Let’s explore the effect of different choices.

“But what about B12?” Once I’ve started to eat less meat and dairy people would ask me about nutrients. I got asked about protein, iron and B12 most often. They’re instantly worried that you wouldn’t get enough of them. But should they be? Let’s discover.

While deciding WHAT you eat makes a bigger difference in a sustainable diet than HOW that food is exactly produced, it can give us inspiration and can be a step for everyone who has already found a new balance on their plates.

Eating more fruits and vegetables is an important part of eating more sustainably. But if you do that, should you be worried about consuming pesticides? What do we know about the health effects of pesticides? Learn more and find your way of going about it.

‘But fish are also animals, right?’ If we want to eat more sustainably, it’s often about eating less meat and animal products. So what about fish?

Butter has a much higher carbon footprint than margarine. But what if margarine is made from palm oil. And what about the health impacts of margarine?

People have looked surprised when I said that if I would eat meat, I would eat wild meat. I have been a vegetarian for many years, so it’s a hypothetical question for me. However, to me it feels more natural than keeping animals on farms. But does that mean, it’s also more sustainable?