Sunny Monday, a day working from my garden!
Simple food day, Kate at work and desire to be outside, everything went well, maybe have to think about eating more fresh produce on a simple day?
Off to Mum’s tomorrow after meeting an old friend for coffee, looking forward to hearing how his bread delivery & box scheme businesses are going. Need to think about my Livewell plan while I‘m away?
Fresh baked wholemeal bread on the menu and starting to have some ideas aout how to translate carbon footprint calculations into something people may be able to implement. Good chat with the hero’s at WWF today to clear up some assumptions, particularly around oils and fats, eggs and potatoes. Most important thing being to keep on targets set, and will discuss further including potatoes in fruit and vegetables.
It;s taking me around 1-2 hours each day just to record and calculate everything, so must find a way of making this minutes.
- 220ml fresh OJ (0.2carbon, 104cals, sodium)
- 75g Kate's muesli (347cals based on Jordan’s) (0.075 carbon assumed)
- 100ml semi skimmed milk (50cals, 41mg sodium) (carbon 0.12)
- 2 Beechwood Deli espressos (0.56 carbon, 8cals) No shortbread today must kick that habit!
Lunch (1.758carbon, 890cals, 530sodium, 2F&V) - 6ml oilseed rape OSR oil (carbon 0.012, cals 54)
- 125g shiitake mushrooms from Lancashire (0.125carbon, 70cals)
- 100g toast (0.075carbon, 259 cal, 530mg sodium)
- 40g of mixed Tring salad, from organic plot in Tring (0.046carbon, 7 cals)
- Loads of Tring’s best tap water
- Numerous (4) posh tonic waters with ice & slice (est 1.5carbon, 500cals?)
- Supper (0.6375carbon, 430cals, 853sodium, 2f&V)
- 300ml homemade roasted vegetable soup: 7 veg + homemade chicken stock (est 0.6carbon, 300 calories, 200mg sodium- based on vegetable ingredients & other data sources) (assume 2 portions vegetables)
- 1g salt (0.0001carbon, 0cals, 1000mg 388mg sodium)
- Loads of tap water (nil)
- 50g bread (0.0375carbon,130cals, 265mg sodium)
The targets:
Calories 2300 - actual 1829
Carbon 5kgs - actual 3.391kgs CO2e kgs
Salt 6g (2.4g sodium) - actual sodium 1528mg
Meat 54g - actual 0 (weekly cumulative 160g)
Fruit and veg portions 5-8 - actual 5.2
Fish 2 portion per week - actual 0 (weekly cumulative 1 + half oily)
Cheese and butter below 50g - actual 0 (weekly cumulative 100g)
