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At $4.90 to buy a pizza the ingredients to make one myself would cost me around $5.

The beer is bottom brewed Grolsch made from spring water with no additives at $1.50NZ or $0.80US per 330ml bottle.

I know pizza and beer is a contradiction in the context of this thread, but hey I'm only human and err I sometime do.

I still eat the $6 lunch at the natural therapies school cafeteria around the corner from me...so its not all junk.

The bottles get melted down and the pizza box gets eaten by the worm farm worms. The beer transportation probably used about 2 gallons of diesel to get here from The Netherlands..... And another gallon to be collected and melted down. Very uneconomical to say the least.

I wear a vapour mask with carbon filters when I ride my motorbike to avoid diesel particulates and CO2's etc, even though I'm producing them as I go along....

Collective cooking and eating if within walking distance may be more ecofriendly than home cooking for 1,2 or a few, when you consider oven power, water, heating, lighting and effluent waste.

The time saved means you could plant more than a dozen trees, or replace a car journey with a cycle journey, or many other very worthwhile activities.

Maybe in the future, dwellings my not even have an oven or fridge.

Lately as I find more good places to eat near me, my fridge contents are around 10-15 liters on average....

Being walking distance to the supermarket means I could almost not have a fridge. Often supermarket ingredients are so expensive.... compared with ready to eat options.....

Maybe never cooking at home, only sandwiches, muesli granola, fruit etc and eating out everyday is a better way for everyone and the planet, it may be financially cheaper too. Depending on where you live...


But concerning eating and drinking: my main concern re personal health is food acidity. And trying to introduce a more alkaline, mineral rich diet? Plus of course avoiding chemicals and toxic wastes.

Its hard though when some tasty little morsels are so cheap, but apart from Subway, (which you can receive wrapped only in 1 piece of paper) most other mainstream options are total rubbish, and produce lots of rubbish.