Fflur Collier

This challenge has been inspiring to participate in and has certainly showed me how I can improve reducing my carbon, waste and pollution output in a whole range of ways. I feel like I need to do much more planning with my family to meet a full 3 weeks of vegetarian dinners, but we have found some vegetarian and vegan family favourite meals, I have been more diligent with composting, and tracking my food waste has been a real eye opener. This challenge has coincided with the plastic bag ban about to be brought for all shops in our state, and it’s great to feel that momentum is building with more and more people I know trying to reduce single use plastic consumption on top of the plastic bag ban. I am keen to take on another DrawDown EcoChallenge and maybe recruit a team from my workmates and other friends and family. Thanks Heidi and Team Climate KISS

My husband made a delicious vegan sweet potato Succotash from the Vegan on the Cheap cookbook I bought years ago. It’s a new favourite and we have had it for dinner a couple of nights and its my lunch today. I put off making alot of recipes from the book previously because it has stuff we’ve never used before or which is harder to source, especially for making sriram like nutritional yeast and viral wheat gluten. I bought a tofu satay Bahn mi for lunch yesterday too so I had 3 vegetarian meals yesterday. Now I’m dreaming of vegetable green Thai curry

Also I have been saving the aluminium foil from Easter eggs to keep the foil together as one big lump - it’s more likely to be separated at the recycling plant that way

I have been diligent in making sure I compost food waste this week. Including making the extra effort to take my Apple core to the worm food bin at work which is in a different room.  I do need to remember to leave our cloth and mesh produce bags in the car so if either my husband or I do an impromptu shop we don’t bring home plastic bags. Also I need to take my huge stash of soft plastic bags to the RED recycle bin - our closest bin is at one shop outside Coles and I forget to put the stash in the car too

Well unfortunately I didn’t sit down to meal plan ahead of this Monday with my husband and so I have only had 1 vegetarian meals instead of 2 out of 3, both yesterday and today. Got to finish off the meals that we have cooked. Yesterday at lunch I stopped at a bakery lightheaded at 3pm, and they had no vego options so I got a meat pie. Planning on making a big batch of lentil and bean chilli tomorrow

I spent my lunch hour discussing this challenge with a coworker and discussing what we already do and how we can improve our carbon drawdown