Learn Sustainable Home Cooking!

Reasons Why You Should Learn Sustainable Home Cooking!

There are many reasons why you should start cooking with sustainable, local foods- here are just a few…

1-      It’s healthier & safer- When you cook yourself you know what is going into your meal and body. You do not have to worry about what a restaurant or mass producer put into your meat or meal. Locally grown food is fresher which means it is more nutritious. Once you get the product in your kitchen you are in complete control in what goes into the rest of your meal and how you prepare it. You can roast vegetables to preserve vitamins and keep the peel on fruits to add even more vitamin. You can avoid adding preservations, artificial flavoring, and texturizers.  Also you’re able to regulate how much salt, pepper, and sugar go into you cooking. YOU ARE IN CONTROL!

2-      Tastes the way you want- Doing your own cooking allows you to customize the flavor to suit your family, friends and own taste preference. You can add more spice to your cookies, add less butter to your potatoes etc. It is a nice perk to make your food taste the way you want rather than going to a restaurant and having it the way the cook prepares it.  You are able to experiment as much or as little as you would like. Once you start cooking with fresh local food you will realize that your meals taste better and satisfy your taste buds more than processed foods.

3-      Gets your children & friend involved- Start by bringing your son/daughter, grandkid, nephew/niece to the local farmers market to help pick out some products they want to eat and cook with. Children love to help cook in the kitchen so get them in there with you…start off with a new recipe, clean the produce and mix the ingredients.  Having them take part in the choosing, cooking and eating of local food will teach them that this is a practice they should take part in on a daily basis. This is also a great way to get friends involved- have a local food cooking party. All choose a local product and find a recipe to use the product in. The all get together and share your products and new recipes with! It’s a great way to learn new recipes and local products.