What can YOU do to make Good Food For Glasgow a reality? Take a look at our top tips for individuals.
1) Help make sure everyone has access to fresh, fair, healthy, affordable food:
- Ask your local shop to consider selling more fresh, healthy food
- Choose fresh food wherever possible
- Choose fair trade food wherever possible
- Volunteer for a local community organisation working on food issues
2) Use growing and cooking food to bring your community together:
- Cook from scratch with your friends or neighbours
- Grow your own food – at home in window boxes or pots, in an allotment of community garden
- Find ways to share your skills with food, from recipes to tips on finding great produce
3) Support Glasgow’s local food economy:
- Shop local
- Try out a veg box scheme from a local farm
- Start your own food enterprise or food buying co-op
- Ask your school or employer to serve more good, local food
4) Enjoy and celebrate diverse, tasty and healthy food:
- Share recipes Host a food event
- Talk about good food – to your friends, neighbours and community
5) Make sure your food is good for the environment as well as you:
- Keep a reusable shopping bag handy
- Choose local, seasonal, organic food when you can
- Eat less but better meat and dairy, supporting high animal welfare standards
- Avoid and recycle packaging
- Plan meals and use up leftovers to avoid wasting food
- Recycle food waste that you can’t avoid
Don’t forget to sign up to the Good Food for All Charter to show your support!