Blog — ZERO FOOD WASTE

Food waste and food safety are always primary concerns, and now more than ever, the spread of COVID-19 makes clean cooking and preparation practices essential to safeguarding good health. To help streamline the process and provide added peace of mind, Chef Mareya Ibrahim – America’s “Fit Foodie” – offers her top 8 zero-waste kitchen safety tips ahead of September, which is National Food Safety Awareness Month. She also talks about it in depth on episode 64 of her podcast, Recipes For Your Best Life. Link to the full episode below.     LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE ON APPLE PODCASTS...

My mama always said, clean your plate, there are hungry people in the world! But when it comes to food waste, there are so many additional associated issues, from the environmental impact to wasted resources and the cost of waste disposal. If you were to peek into a landfill, you'd find almost 40% of it from fresh food, which lends to harmful greenhouse gas emissions that damage our ozone. We can do a lot to make a big impact on the environment and our wallets with every bite. I'll go over 8 great tips you can use to help cut...

By Chef Mareya, The Fit Foodie Founder, Eat Cleaner   It’s a slippery slope. Whenever I talk food to people and ooze about the delicious, artisan quality of a product, they’re in. The minute I start talking about how we are integrally responsible for the impact our dietary decisions have on the environment, I start to lose people like ripe avocados. Seems like being a foodie and being ecologically fit do not necessarily intersect on the culinary highway.   According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a Swiss authority on food biodiversity, we need to start giving more...