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8 Reasons to Be Cautiously Optimistic about the Environment in 2021

Posted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021by The Zero-Waste Chef

Despite the fact that although 2020 has ended and the chaos has not, we have reason to be more optimistic about the environment in 2021.

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Avoid Shopping a Bit Longer During Covid

Posted on October 28, 2020October 28, 2020by The Zero-Waste Chef

Food shopping during Covid is stressful. These ideas will help you avoid the store for a bit longer between shopping trips.

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What to Eat During a Heat Wave or Power Outage

Posted on August 19, 2020November 2, 2020by The Zero-Waste Chef

Record heat and rolling blackouts. The show (or dinner) must still go on. These ideas will satisfy your appetite without heating up the kitchen.

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THREE copies up for grabs of the book “Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters”...
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One person can make a difference! In July 2011, Rebecca Prince-Ruiz (founder of @plasticfreejuly) challenged herself to go plastic free for the whole month. Starting with a small group of people in Western Australia, the Plastic Free July movement has grown to an estimated 326 million strong community across 177 countries, empowering people to reduce single-use plastic consumption and create a cleaner future.
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From the book description: “This book explores how one of the world’s leading environmental campaigns took off and shares lessons from its success. From narrating marine-debris research expeditions to tracking what actually happens to our waste to sharing insights from behavioral research, it speaks to the massive scale of the plastic waste problem and how we can tackle it together. Interweaving interviews from participants, activists, and experts, Plastic Free tells the inspiring story of how ordinary people have created change in their homes, communities, workplaces, schools, businesses, and beyond.”
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TO ENTER:
1. Like and comment on this post and tell us about one single use plastic item you are choosing to refuse.
2. Follow @plasticfreejuly
3. Follow @zerowastechef
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Conditions: This giveaway is open internationally and prizes will be shipped to all countries excluding Australia and New Zealand. There are 3 books in total to be given away. Entry closes on Saturday, February 27th at 11:59pm PST. I will randomly choose the winners and notify them by DM. This giveaway is in no way administered, sponsored or endorsed by Instagram.

This weekend’s shopping includes a smallish farm

This weekend’s shopping includes a smallish farmers’ market haul on a new-to-me background. Total cost of the background: $0.
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On Saturday, I “shopped” at something like a moving sale or estate sale where everything was free. A friend of a friend left town just as the lockdowns began last year and hasn’t been back since. She has decided to stay on the East Coast and from there is co-ordinating the move of her belongings from here on the West Coast. She’s leaving behind loads of stuff, a lot of which would go to landfill. So, on the weekend, several of us descended upon her home—masked and socially distanced—and cleared out boxes and boxes of useful stuff. I’ve posted just some of the things I grabbed.
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I’ve wanted a table to put in the window for taking pictures and voila! (The burlap sac came from a local café that roasts its own beans and tosses these bags out.) We had no glasses; now we do (not shown: half a dozen more that I need to wash still). The little teabag rest is smaller than the ramekin I’ve been using (and it frees up a ramekin). My oven mitts are shot and this pair still has the tag on them. Charlotte needed a desk lamp; one magically appeared. Finally, I grabbed this never used, unopened Blu-ray player to post in my Buy Nothing Group (we don’t own a TV). Several people asked for this right away and I need to randomly pick a recipient today.
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I say this all the time on here but when I need or want something, if I’m patient, it eventually shows up. I can’t tell you how often this happens.
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I hope everyone’s week is off to a good start.

I haven’t made kimchi for about four months. I s

More book news! Canadian retailer @Indigo has sele

This is what sustainable soda packaging looks like

Incredibly delicious homemade pappardelle pasta .

I hope you find these conversions helpful. Please

I hope you find these conversions helpful. Please note: I’ve rounded a bit on the conversions from US to metric, so you’ll notice some slight inconsistency as the measurements scale up (I rounded 1.892 liters to 1.9, for example).
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Also please note: Fluid ounces differ greatly from dry ounces! Fluid ounces measure ingredients by VOLUME and dry ounces measure ingredients by WEIGHT.
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1 tsp = 5 ml
1 tbsp = 3 tsp = 15 ml
1/8 cup = 2 tbsp = 30 ml
1/4 cup = 4 tbsp = 60 ml
1/3 cup = 5 tbsp + 1 tsp = 80ml
1 cup = 8 fl oz = 237 ml
1 pint = 2 cups = 16 fl oz = 473 ml
1 quart = 2 pints = 4 cups = 946 ml
1/2 gallon = 2 quarts = 8 cups = 1.9 liters
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Fluid ounces fl oz (volume)
1/2 oz = 1 tbsp = 15 ml
1 oz = 2 tbsp = 30 ml
2 oz = 4 tbsp = 60 ml
8 oz = 1 cup = 237 ml
16 oz = 2 cups = 473 ml
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Dry ounces (weight)
1 oz = 28 g
2 oz = 56 g
4 oz = 1/4 pound = 113 g
8 oz = 1/2 pound = 227 g
16 oz = 1 pound = 454 g

Happy National Pizza Day! . To mark the occasion,

Don’t have a rolling pin? A wine bottle or even

Don’t have a rolling pin? A wine bottle or even a jar does the trick.
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The marketing industry has trained us to buy products that will supposedly solve all of life’s problems. But with a little creativity and resourcefulness, we can often find more sustainable and less expensive solutions to our predicaments than new goods.
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So here is a challenge: The next time a kitchen gadget breaks or your jeans tear or you run out of the goop you like to put in your hair, before searching for a product to buy, see if you can come up with a different solution, using the resources you already own.
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A friend’s husband once told me that when he was a broke student, he stayed with friends for a night in a hotel in Las Vegas on his way home from a camping trip. After promptly losing his last $20 in the casino, he returned to the room hungry. He still had some food left from camping, including tortillas and cheese, so he (carefully) made a quesadilla in the hotel room with the iron and ironing board, using the iron’s steam setting to soften his tortillas. I aspire to that type of MacGyver-esque thinking.
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What problem have you solved lately with a bit of creativity?

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