Laura Raccio
It’s already August. Lots of sunny days, the end of the school year and it’s holiday time for most of you we hope. July was a very social month for the LiveWell team! We hosted our first-ever Twitter chat in conjunction with the release of a unique shopping guide to a healthy, sustainable life.
A guide to a healthy, sustainable life
We have produced a wallet-size foldable shopping guide based on the LiveWell six messages to adopt a healthy, low-carbon diet. We hope you will be inspired in your consumption choices by the LiveWell principles! Click here to have a look at our LiveWell shopping guide.
#LWchats14
We hosted our first ever LiveWell Twitter chat on July 30 – A guide to a healthy sustainable life: How to adopt the LiveWell diet in six steps. It was a great success and exceeded our expectations: a varied range of people interested in sustainable consumption joined the conversation, sharing their ideas, insights and generating a very tasty debate. Tesco, Euro Commerce, FCRN, Eating Better, Nestlé, Food Ethics Council and the Soil Association to name a few. Follow #LWchats14 to discover when the next LiveWell chats will take place.
July was also quite an active month for food bloggers around the world. So relax and have a bite of today’s Special! My plate consists in a fine selection of the freshest and yummiest food blogs from July. Help yourself!
And, please do not forget to follow us on Twitter @LiveWellFood if you have an appetite for change!
Laura Raccio
Social Media and Communication Support Officer – LiveWell for LIFE
The latest French fashion: Eating ugly fruits and veggies
Published: Grist, 29 July
Lorena Galliot, a green-at-heart French journalist based in New York City, leads us through a very interesting food waste campaign promoted by French retailer Intermarché: ‘Inglorious fruits and vegetables’.
Poultry scandal is one more reason for food retailers to sell sustainable meat
Published in Guardian sustainable business food blog, 24 July
As once again the quality and safety of meat makes headlines, Sue Dibb, coordinator of Eating Better, makes us reflect on how modifying eating patterns has become a priority nobody can ignore. Sue analyses the challenges, opportunities and current trends of healthy sustainable diets in the UK.
Want to eat a healthy and sustainable diet? Ask Laura
Published in Zero Carbon Britain, 18 July
Kit Jones, Media Officer at the Centre for Alternative Technologies, launches the Centre’s innovative web tool designed for helping people making heathier and more sustainable food choices. The tool shows what are the nutritional qualities and deficits of a specific food, and defines what impact it has on the global environment in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.
Published: Sustainable food trust, 18 July
Food blogger Ellie Athanasis introduces us to Food is for Eating, an interactive website that tells the story of the time, land, water and energy that goes into producing our food… and how it ends up being wasted on a large scale.
Summer crunch salad with creamy caesar dressing
Published: The clever carrot, 28 July
And finally a culinary blog to celebrate summer, eating more plants and a great way to have a #MeatlessMonday served on your table.
