Eat to Save the Planet - Over 100 Recipes and Ideas for Eco-Friendly Cooking and Eating

by Annie Bell

Description
'The best possible cookbook you could buy for 2021 and beyond.' - The Bookseller

Simple, tempting, eco-friendly recipes that support the environment and don't make you feel like you're missing out.

If the way we eat globally continues, the world is at risk of failing to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. From extreme weather patterns to wild fires raging in Australia, it's little wonder that more of us than ever are worried about the environmental impact of our food decisions.

Enter award-winning recipe writer for Mail on Sunday's YOU magazine and registered nutritionist, Annie Bell. The easy, family-friendly recipes in Eat to Save the Planet follow recommendations from the Lancet-EAT commissioned Planetary Health Diet, written by an international group of scientists. This flexitarian reference diet is so simple, easily accessible and tempting that you will hardly believe you're helping to save the planet as you eat.

The mainstays of the Planetary Health Diet are plant-based foods, but while these ingredients are central to its recommendations, the diet doesn’t go as far as being vegetarian or vegan. So recipes in the book include modest quantities of seafood and poultry, with a small amount of red meat being optional – making this new approach to eating achievable and realistic for everyone.

Whether it's Spinach, Nut and Goat's Cheese Pie, Aubergine Stuffed with Lamb and Buckwheat, or Speedy Cauliflower, Lentil and Watercress Risotto, these comforting, filling and delicious dishes will quickly become the day-to-day favourites in your kitchen.

Genres: Nonfiction, Cookbooks, Ebooks

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2020

Reviews

[8stitches 9lives · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eat to Save the Planet is an eco-friendly recipe book and 28 day plan based on the Planetary Health Diet, the groundbreaking global scientific study that tackles both our personal health and the health of the planet. Eat to Save the Planet demystifies that science, helping the reader introduce the approach in simple, achievable steps. It features recipes for everyone, whatever their dietary preference or persuasion. It features simple, tempting, eco-friendly, flexitarian recipes that support the environment and don't make you feel like you're missing out.

Written by award-winning food writer Annie Bell, the book is packed with a tonne of delicious and nutritious recipes based on the report’s recommendation of eating more fruits and vegetables, together with modest amounts of meat and dairy, plus whole grains, plant proteins and unsaturated plant oils. The 28 day meal-plan and accessible food shopping and storage tips that address food waste, will help the whole family adopt a healthy and genuinely sustainable approach to eating.

This is a thought-provoking book exploring food from a wholly different angle to other recipe books. We should all be thinking more about food waste and sustainability and in this reliable and superbly researched guide it couldn't be any easier to implement the easily understandable steps set out within these pages. I mean, what could be better than knowing you're eating healthily and contributing to saving our planet too, killing two birds with one stone? Highly recommended.

[GONZA · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very interesting, also because it provides a flex diet and is not, as is usual with books that, in addition to recipes, aim to 'save the planet', only for vegetarians/vegans. Unfortunately, and this is a big drama for me, there are no photos of the recipes.

Molto interessante, anche perché prevede una dieta flex e non é, come al solito capita con i libri che, oltre alle ricette, hanno lo scopo di "salvare il pianeta", soltanto a vegetariani/vegani. Purtroppo peró, e questo per me é un grosso dramma, non ci sono le foto delle ricette.

[Lex · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this a really accessible read, with a common sense writing style that didn't over-explain the issues. There are tips that can help you get started straight away, and simple recipes that sound delicious.

[Lucy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I expected to really like this - it sounded like it was perfect for me. I'm a bit obsessed with trying not to waste food and to make the most of everything, so I was thinking it would be great. I ended up really disliking it because of the author's tone. I kept putting it down and not wanting to pick it back up. I found some of the writing here came across as really smug and preachy, not something I'm interested in, and not something that I think will persuade many people to eat a more planet friendly meal! The last straw for me was when she said that she could eat a spelt risotto rather than a rice one without feeling guilty - I think the idea that anyone should feel guilty about eating food is just wrong.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the copy of this.

[cailleach · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had a technical glitch downloading this book and only managed to get 3% of it. I got the forewrod and a front listing of sections and recipe titles. I therefore couldn't try any. The Foreword didn't impress me, it was rambling discussion about confusion people feel baout recycling the right things, if their efforts at producing less waste have any effect etc. but none of it was backed up with research or science. It felt like the author was just discoursing in conversation and not really selling the premise of the book of "eat to save the planet."

[Zee Monodee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book, with a good message & overall good intentions.
However, how really sustainable is it? For the planet, it is, yes, but for the consumer and their pocket/wallet? Rice is a 'no' while spelt is a resounding 'yes' - but spelt is often 2-3-4 times more expensive than rice, yields less when prepared, and is not easily available not just worldwide but say big city v/s the country
I do applaud the intentions, but it's more to be lauded as 'a' possible way to go in the big scheme of things

[Georgi_Lvs_Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eat to save the planet is a great book to get if you are trying to be more eco friendly or want to eat more healthy foods.

It is filled with a number of recipes and is suitable for vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian or flexitarian eaters.

You are given tips on reducing food waste and how to prepare/store foods.

At the end of the book you are given a 4 week meal plan.

Very interesting read.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gorgeous illustrations . Loved the way they were sprinkled across the pages