Day off to spend time with Mother and twin sister, interesting being in this situation, much help from fruit towers and increase observation from being on the Livewell plan?
Getting into the muesli breakfast and think that’s helping, Kate does a mean blending job on this. A third of today’s carbon was from drinks, OJ, 2 black coffees & a bottle of fizzy stuff – that’s so unexpected, had I replace the last 3 with lattes it would be worse.
The feasibility of measuring carbon, calories and salt out of the home is not straight forward, salt/fat intake would be virtually impossible to control in processed and out of the home food – this has to be addressed.
Tomorrow will be hard, Mum’s just given me chocolate and I’m on the road all day & in a meeting until really late?
- 220ml fresh OJ (0.2carbon, 104cals, sodium)
- 75g Kate's muesli (0.075 carbon assumed, 347cals based on Jordan’s)
- 100ml semi skimmed milk (carbon 0.12, 50cals, 41mg sodium)
- 1 Costa espresso & 1 from local shop (0.56 carbon, 8cals)
- 1 bite size coffee biscuit (0.012 carbon, 25cals) – it is my birthday
- No shortbread today must kick the habit!
Lunch (1.36carbon, 1050cals, 300sodium, 1 F&V) - Mega jacket potato (350g?), baked beans(50g), cheese/butter (50g) & bacon (25g) & side salad (1carbon, 950cals, 300mg sodium)
- Brewed Dandelion & Burdock (0.36carbon,100cals, o sodium??)
- Loads of Nantwich’s best tap water Supper (0.92carbon, 465cals, 750mg sodium, 4f&V)
- Risotto Veg Pot from nice people at Fruit Towers (0.62carbon, 315cals, 650mg sodium)
- 150ml homemade roasted vegetable soup: (est 0.3carbon, 150 calories, 100mg sodium) (assume 1 portions vegetables)
- Loads of tap water (nil)
The targets:
- Calories 2300 - actual 2049
- Carbon 5kgs - actual 3.247kgs
- Salt 6g (2.4g sodium) - actual sodium 1195mg
- Meat 54g - actual 50 (weekly cumulative 210g)
- Fruit and veg portions 5-8 - actual circa 6.2
- Fish 2 portion per week - actual 0 (weekly cumulative 1 + half oily)
- Cheese and butter below 50g - actual 50 (weekly cumulative 200g)
Notes: to carry forward
- Calories and salt should be compulsory on menus, or a fat and sodium tax imposed?
- Has anyone done any work on mushroom footprints and Check they are counted as vegetables?
- Can I have tomatoes from Israel when I’m trying to avoid air freight and take the ethics high road?
- Only counting OJ as 1 fruit portion: is that correct under Livewell?
- Need to add proxies for non recorded items footprints and should add Otarian’s dishes and comparisons as proxies
- I’m going to have to add black pepper & sea salt at end of week? – plus breath freshener mints.
- I’m assuming potatoes aren’t in the WWF Livewell Fruit & Veg portions, must check, must also check on eggs limit if relevant – propose up to 1 portion per day as per fruit juice, maybe only counting if skim on?.
- The carbon footprint data I’m using often includes preparation and wastage allowances, this I don’t believe was included in the WWF Livewell numbers?
- http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Business-News/Cadbury-furthers-carbon-footprint-debate 49g bar Cadbury Dairy Milk has 169g C02e – need to add this to the database, and decide if it’s better than the ludicrously high DEFRA numbers.
