Full Description
A food-choice toolkit and recipe book perfect for fans of the Low Tox Life podcast, Cornersmith, Anna Jones, War on Waste, Matthew Evans.
What are the best foods to put in your shopping basket for your health and for the planet? Is it necessary to cut out meat, almonds and go organic? Who can afford it anyway?
Bestselling author of Low Tox Life and 'ultimate gentle activist' Alexx Stuart clears a path through the rules so stridently laid down by proponents of particular diets. She turns the tables on a supermarket system that is geared strongly against our health and the environment, and points to the how rather than the what. Because questioning how your food is grown is the key to unlocking dependence on a broken food system and to finding easy and delicious answers to that daily conundrum: what's for dinner?
Low Tox Life Food is packed with inspiration and stories from regenerative farmers, checklists for what to ask about the produce you buy, ways to afford better choices, as well as 80 of Alexx's most requested recipes for budget-friendly, easily adaptable meals without waste.
If you want to feel more certain and more hopeful about the future of food and our planet, this book is for you.
Contents
1: How did we get here?
How I got here 14
The global picture 20
The dirty world of produce politics 25
What's bad for us is bad for the planet 28
Our job as caring human beings 36
How this book works 38
2: What's best for our planet?
A way forward for us all 42
A little history 45
The organic pioneers 46
Demonise processed foods, not farmers 52
What is regenerative agriculture? 58
An in-depth look at regenerative agriculture 64
Your practical guide to composting and worm farms 90
3: Change starts with us
It's action time! 104
Get your real food here 116
Your practical guide to sourcing real food 122
How to get the most out of every last bit of produce 134
Inspo lists for eliminating food waste 148
Inspo lists for reducing food packaging 160
And now it's time for recipes 163
4: Let's cook!
Cook to change the world! 166
Meet your flavour makers 175
Choose your own adventure for any ingredient 195
Feasts of well-farmed plenty 219
Conclusion 286
Notes 288
Further information 292
The thankyous 294
Index 296
