Green Food Breakouts
How to slow down
Want to be a “slow foodie”? Here are a few ways to start:
• Avoid foods with long lists of ingredients you can’t identify and can’t pronounce.
• Shop at local farmers’ markets.
• Cook at least one regular meal at home with your family. Try eating together, without a television on.
• Be knowledgeable about where food comes from and how it was produced.
• Examine supermarket produce. If you have a choice between asparagus that was grown in your home state versus asparagus flown in from halfway across the world, choose local.
• Visit a local farm and see how cheese is made, find out where your eggs come from, or how artichokes grow.
Examples: Slow food around the world
• Slow Food USA has a Slow Food in Schools program with hands-on activities such as cooking classes, farm tours and schoolyard gardens.
• After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the Renewing America’s Food Traditions project gave out 2,500 packets of seeds to grow fruits and vegetables native to the region to farmers who lost their own stocks during the floods.
