Be #PalmOilFree for a week!

So has anyone seen “Before the Flood” with our main man Leonard Di Caprio? Well it really made me think twice about what we are doing to this planet. I’ve been really trying to be eco friendly – re-usable shopping bag CHECK, as little plastic as possible CHECK palm oil free? LETS DO IT.

Haven’t got enough time to watch a whole documentary? – have a watch of this vid:

Palm oil: what you need to know https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/faqs-palm-oil-answered/

The harvesting of palm oil is one of the biggest killers of the rain-forest and….the habitat of the orangutans!!! So…how can we stop it? We can make wise and careful choices about where we shop, what we eat and what we products we use? I’ve completed a week, palm oil free (food only this time), to show you that it can be done. I challenge you all to do the same! Let me know how you get on!!!!

This is what I ate for a week to avoid palm oil, it can provide a bit of inspiration for you!

Watch out because sometimes its under a different name – I’ve tried wherever possible to follow this list but they don’t half make it tricky (so many words for palm oil!!!!) : https://www.ran.org/the-understory/palm_oil_s_dirty_secret_the_many_ingredient_names_for_palm_oil/

Day 1 (aka saving the orangutans).

Breakfast: Banana (I know I was running late and its a Monday!)

Lunch: Sainsburys Free From Seeded Bread and Aldi prawn cocktail mix.

Dinner: Homemade chilli.

Snack: Pom Bears

Day 2 (sustaining some rainforests)

Breakfast: Banana and onken vanilla yoghurt

Lunch: Sainsburys Free From Seeded Bread and Aldi prawn cocktail mix.

Dinner: Chicken, aunt bessie chips and fried courgette and mushroom (a quick dinner before I run to tap dance).

Day 3 (stopping deforestation)

Breakfast: Sainsbury’s honey hoops with milk.

Lunch: Beef and apple chutney sandwich (I used Aldi chutney)

Dinner: Made without wheat Marks and Spencer Prosciutto an Ricotta Cappelletti

(I originally wanted to have a naughty day and eat my Tesco Katsu curry – but wait….palm oil!)

Day 4 (reducing the palm oil effect)

Breakfast: Onken yoghurt and flaxseeds with raspberries.

Lunch: Parma ham and buffalo mozzarella sandwich

Dinner: Made without wheat Marks and Spencer Prosciutto an Ricotta Cappelletti (the other half of yesterdays)

Day 5 (seeing the orangutans swinging from their trees)

Breakfast: Potato waffles and eggs.

Lunch: Watch out! I tried to get my treat day sandwich out – and so much palm oil! Marks and Spencer sandwiches were particularly bad! So….Tilda mexican rice it is ( store these in my drawer for occasions like this)

Dinner: Mamma flora pasta and pesto (Marks and Spencer green pesto).