My Desi Green Meals Introductory Video... 🎥🎥
Main Research Question- Here is a slideshow that documents our journey from just being KEEN to becoming truly GREEN...
Some WAYS OF SAVING ENERGY WHILE COOKING AT HOME 👨🍳🏠
1. Proper cookware.
- Use the proper cooking tools for the amount of food you are cooking. Toaster oven, slow cookers, pressure cookers and electric kettles may be a better choice than your oven or stove.
- Flat bottomed cookware allows for more contact with heating elements, which helps to more effectively heat your pan. A warped bottom pot could take 50% more energy to boil water that a flat-bottomed pan.
- Copper bottomed pans are recommended because they heat up faster than regular pans.
2. Clean the glass of the oven.
- Keep your oven door clean so that you should be able to spy on your food without having to open it. This will prevent the loss of heat while cooking.
3. Cook as much as food possible at a time.
- Cook as much food in one go as possible.
EXAMPLE 1 : There is no point having the oven on for an hour to cook two dishes separately when they could go together for just 30 minutes
EXAMPLE 2 : To cook rice and boil potatoes, we can do this in just one pressure cooker than to make use of the pressure cooker twice. This can save time as well as energy.
4. Use lids on pots and pans.
- Covering pots and pans helps to trap heat, so you can cook things quicker or achieve the same level of boiling or frying without having the hob turned up very high. This method can save up to 3% in energy costs per pan.
5. If you are cooking in an oven, keep the oven door closed.
- Every time you open the door of the oven, the oven loses all its heat and so it has to work harder to get back up to the right temperature again.
6. Use Solar Cookers and Solar Ovens.
-These use clean, renewable and readily available solar energy as a fuel. Also, they don't produce any dangerous emissions which pollute local environment and contribute to climate change.
- Use the proper cooking tools for the amount of food you are cooking. Toaster oven, slow cookers, pressure cookers and electric kettles may be a better choice than your oven or stove.
- Flat bottomed cookware allows for more contact with heating elements, which helps to more effectively heat your pan. A warped bottom pot could take 50% more energy to boil water that a flat-bottomed pan.
- Copper bottomed pans are recommended because they heat up faster than regular pans.
2. Clean the glass of the oven.
- Keep your oven door clean so that you should be able to spy on your food without having to open it. This will prevent the loss of heat while cooking.
3. Cook as much as food possible at a time.
- Cook as much food in one go as possible.
EXAMPLE 1 : There is no point having the oven on for an hour to cook two dishes separately when they could go together for just 30 minutes
EXAMPLE 2 : To cook rice and boil potatoes, we can do this in just one pressure cooker than to make use of the pressure cooker twice. This can save time as well as energy.
4. Use lids on pots and pans.
- Covering pots and pans helps to trap heat, so you can cook things quicker or achieve the same level of boiling or frying without having the hob turned up very high. This method can save up to 3% in energy costs per pan.
5. If you are cooking in an oven, keep the oven door closed.
- Every time you open the door of the oven, the oven loses all its heat and so it has to work harder to get back up to the right temperature again.
6. Use Solar Cookers and Solar Ovens.
-These use clean, renewable and readily available solar energy as a fuel. Also, they don't produce any dangerous emissions which pollute local environment and contribute to climate change.
Cooking my own meal felt like
Grown up
Self dependent
Fun making it
Confident when its yum!
😋😋😋
Grown up
Self dependent
Fun making it
Confident when its yum!
😋😋😋
here are a few Green Recipes by shreeya, don't forget to try them! 😋 |
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Presenting some celebs who turned VEGAN to set an example for the society...
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Rohit Sharma:
He is an Indian international cricketer. He is the vice-captain of the Indian national team. He is a right-handed batsman.
He has stated that although he loves non-vegetarian, especially eggs, he has committed to be a vegan.
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Venus Williams:
She is an American professional tennis player. In an interview with Health magazine about the disease and her raw vegan diet, Williams said: "I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and I wanted to maintain my performance on the court. Once I started, I fell in love with the concept of fueling your body in the best way possible."
A Walk through the Nanded City ECO Park with Ritesh...
Excerpts from our conversation with
Dr. Vaishali...
1. Why is eating green healthier?
→ Greener meals are much healthier than our regular meals because they are packed with various vitamins, minerals and fibres but are low in calories. That’s why a diet rich in greens can offer numerous health benefits such as reduced risk of obesity, high BP & mental decline.
2. Is eating green better for the environment?
→ Eating green refers to eating fresher and healthier food while reducing your grocery bills and supporting our farmers. On the other hand, the food which comes from high food chains and/or arrives to your plate after extensive processing tends to require more energy as well as increases its carbon footprint.
3. What are the advantages of having green meals?
→ Greens are incredible for your health than you can even suspect. They optimum your brain function, fight belly bloating, relieve stress, support your gut and bone health just to name a few. Thus, we can say that greens support and improve our immune systems while taking care of the environment.
4. What are some food items that highly contribute to a green meal?
→ Green includes vegetables as well as fruits, some of these which can highly contribute to making our meals greener are celery, bell peppers, green peas, mustard green, cabbage, spinach, watercress, beansprouts, beet green, kiwis, limes, olives, green apples, green tea and many more.
5. What percent of our daily diet should be green?
→ The amount of greens that an average person should consume in his/her daily diet depends on their age, gender, and the physical activities that the person does on a daily basis. The amount of green foodstuffs that a normal person should consume per day may vary between 1 cup to 3 cups i.e., 120 to 400 grams per day.
→ Greener meals are much healthier than our regular meals because they are packed with various vitamins, minerals and fibres but are low in calories. That’s why a diet rich in greens can offer numerous health benefits such as reduced risk of obesity, high BP & mental decline.
2. Is eating green better for the environment?
→ Eating green refers to eating fresher and healthier food while reducing your grocery bills and supporting our farmers. On the other hand, the food which comes from high food chains and/or arrives to your plate after extensive processing tends to require more energy as well as increases its carbon footprint.
3. What are the advantages of having green meals?
→ Greens are incredible for your health than you can even suspect. They optimum your brain function, fight belly bloating, relieve stress, support your gut and bone health just to name a few. Thus, we can say that greens support and improve our immune systems while taking care of the environment.
4. What are some food items that highly contribute to a green meal?
→ Green includes vegetables as well as fruits, some of these which can highly contribute to making our meals greener are celery, bell peppers, green peas, mustard green, cabbage, spinach, watercress, beansprouts, beet green, kiwis, limes, olives, green apples, green tea and many more.
5. What percent of our daily diet should be green?
→ The amount of greens that an average person should consume in his/her daily diet depends on their age, gender, and the physical activities that the person does on a daily basis. The amount of green foodstuffs that a normal person should consume per day may vary between 1 cup to 3 cups i.e., 120 to 400 grams per day.
"Our Research Report " 📚💻
*Main Question:
How can we make our meals GREENER?
*Process:
-We, the team members of team My Green Meals (Local), have performed various research activities to get to know more about:
"How can we make our meals GREENER?"
-Under this we tracked and made a note of what each team member ate on a daily basis in a week's time.
-After tabulating the data we were shocked to know that each one of us was releasing carbon emissions in literal Kilos!
-After this, it was decided that each member would alter their daily diet to make it as green as possible and try to consume it for at least a day every week.
-We observed that their was an overall 31.5% decrease in our daily carbon emissions!
-We also interviewed Dr. Vaishali Gomsale, an expert dietician and nutritionist. Our interaction with her gave us a lot of beneficial info about why to eat green and how it benefits our health and the environment as well.
-Our Team co-editor, Shreeya also tried reinventing some tasty and healthy GREEN DISHES.
-The interactions with the students of Baken Park Lyceum via the video conferences was quite informative and fun as we came to know more about how the people of the Netherlands deal with such issues of environmental concern.
-The virtual walk through the Nanded City ECO Park, with Ritesh, our team videographer was quite pleasant and breath-taking. And it also promoted the idea that, all people should try to stay close to nature.
*The results of our data gathering:
◾Survey conducted:
-Food consumed by all the group members and its carbon emission.
◾Data collected:
- Carbon emission before the consumption of green meal -----
GROUP MEMBER 1 = 1275 gm
GROUP MEMBER 2 = 1510 gm
GROUP MEMBER 3 = 1160 gm
GROUP MEMBER 4 = 2800 gm
GROUP MEMBER 5 = 2990 gm
TOTAL CARBON EMISSION = 9735 gm
- Carbon emission after the consumption of green meal ------
GROUP MEMBER 1 = 1188 gm
GROUP MEMBER 2 = 1230 gm
GROUP MEMBER 3 = 840 gm
GROUP MEMBER 4 = 2450 gm
GROUP MEMBER 5 = 965 gm
TOTAL CARBON EMISSION= 6673 gm
◾Results:
There has been a difference of 3062 gm in the carbon emission before and after switching to green meals.
Therefore, approximately 612.4 gm of carbon emission was reduced by each member of the group- My Green Meals(Local).
3062 gm of carbon is almost equal to 2 days of carbon emission of a single person. Thus, a vast difference has been observed before and after switching to green meal.
*The tangible outcomes of the collaboration with the students from the Netherlands:
- We, the students of Pawar Public School, Nanded City have recently begun collaborating with the students of the school Baken Park, Lyceum, Netherlands.
- This collaboration has given all the pupils an opportunity to interact with each other on a virtual platform.
- The main topic for the session was ‘Go Green'. Issues like air and water pollution, waste management, global warming and how to make our meals greener were brought up and discussed elaborately.
- The discussion with the ‘Green Meals’ group was particularly enriching. An interesting similarity in the dishes of most world cuisines is, the common consumption of vegetables along with some form of bread. The students from each school revealed what they ate daily, and shared ideas about how they planned to make their meals greener.
- Research regarding healthy and delicious recipes was also spoken about at length.
- This enthusiastic exchange of ideas and opinions has resulted in numerous tangible outcomes:
- It was a true learning experience, where everyone came to know about the collaborating country, its policies that maintain the sanctity of its ecology, and the protection of its environment.
- It threw light on authorizing the implementation of said policies during the ongoing pandemic.
- Students were allowed to express their opinions and ask questions. Different ways to reduce the collective carbon footprint were discussed, and methods to incorporate greener food into the staple diet were suggested.
Virtual interaction with the students of Baken Park Lyceum...
our Question for the netherlands
Suppose a few guests are going to visit you for dinner. What special meal would you prepare for them, keeping in mind its Carbon emissions while still making it enjoyable?
We can make our meals GREENER by small steps like replacing your food ingredients with GREENER ingredients which are healthy and do not harm environment in any possible ways. For example, instead of having deep fried unhealthy snacks like chips, fitters etc. We can have a bowl of fruits which is extremely nutritious and it also reduces the carbon emission. In conclusion keeping our meals green is very important to keep our selves healthy and to reduce the carbon emission level in our environment because;
"A healthy outside starts from the inside."
-Robert Urich