Tools for Cooking Green Recipes

Video Transcript

"Okay let's start with the tools for going green in the kitchen. They emphasize the basic founding structure of going green which is reduce, reuse and recycle so our first tool is a recycling bin. Every house should have one. You can make it as easy as just buying another trash can but using it for recycling. That is what I do. You could save your bags from Macy's and just throw your recyclables in there or you could get really fancy and get one of those especially divided ones and you could put your glass in one and plastic in the other, your aluminum. Whatever you want to do, just recycle. The good thing is that in California we get a rebate every time we recycle. So those five cents, ten cents really starts to add up. Something that is fun to do is take that money and save it like a special little piggy bank and after a while, it starts to add up. You can go buy something special or donate it to an organization. Okay the second tool for going green in the kitchen is a reusable grocery bag. These are excellent. You can actually get these just about anywhere now a days; Whole Food, Ralph's, even CVS or Target and IKEA make these use great ones that you can use for countless purposes. But they are not that expensive and the good thing is every time you use one, the store gives you a rebate on your purchase. So between five and ten cents, so in the end it pays for itself. So the money I've spent, not a big deal. The other thing is they are really spacious and I find they hold a lot more than your typical grocery bag and it makes it easier to carry. Now the thing is when someone does the paper or plastic question, the truth is it's a lose, lose. I have a couple of interesting facts about that. It says that American's consume more than 10 billion paper bags each year and some 14 million trees are cut down annually for paper bag production. So paper, not the right choice. Then you always thought, better to change to plastic. Okay rule wide an estimated 4 billion plastic bags end up as litter each year and if you tied those ends, tied those bags end to end, it would circle the globe sixty three times; not a good choice. Go with these. They are reusable grocery bags. They are such a simple easy easy change and it saves you money, saves you time and saves you effort. It's a win win. Okay my third and final tool for going green in the kitchen is a membership card. Now I love going to the warehouse as the big warehouse's for bulk shopping. It turns out it is also equal friendly. When you are buying bulk, you are cutting down on the packaging waste. So when you are buying a giant container of whatever, it is less waste than buying ten little mini container's and throwing away each one. Second of all, it is going to reduce the number of trips that you have to take to and from the store. You know if you get one giant package of I don't know, toilet paper, you don't have to go back and forth ten different times and keep on replenishing your supply. You just keep it in your garage and go get it when you need it. No one needs more trips to the grocery store and nobody needs to spend more money on gas. It is too expensive as it is. So warehouse shopping, win win, you go friendly."