Reducing the carbon impact (and cost)
of dishes on your menus...
When looking to reduce the planetary impact of your meals, swapping just a few ingredients can make a big difference, without compromising taste. And they are likely to make better use of your budgets too, as ruminant alternatives are often a more cost-effective version.
All the following recipes are also approved by allmanhall’s Registered Dietitian Tess Warnes, as part of the allmanhall Hero Recipe collection…
Cottage pie:
By removing 50% of the beef and replacing it with lentils, you can lower the impact of your hearty cottage pies by 41% and increase the fibre of the dish too!
What’s more, indicative analysis shows that using lentils instead of beef could achieve a massive 70% cost saving!
Spaghetti Bolognese:
Do the same to a delicious Spaghetti Bolognese and the impact is reduced by 44%. Again, the cost of lentils versus beef could mean a 70% cost saving.
Traditional pie:
What about a pie? By using mushrooms and vegetables instead of meat, the impact can be reduced by a massive 91%! And button mushrooms in place of beef may provide a 40% cost saving.
Tacos:
Using the humble bean and Quorn in your tacos can lower the impact compared to beef by 92%.
Indicative analysis shows that Quorn is on average 10% more cost effective than beef. What’s more, beans are such a super-power from both a nutrition and a soil health perspective. A great example of an ingredient that’s good for people and planet.
Hero Recipes:
Feeling inspired by dishes that are good for people, your purse and the planet? Here’s some more inspiration in the form of allmanhall’s collaborative Hero Dishes! Our gift, to you, as we feel strongly that good food shouldn’t cost the Earth!
