When I first left home to go to university, I couldn’t cook a thing. I literally didn’t know how to cook pasta. That’s a very different story to today, when I know how to make most things from scratch.
Cooking is a skill that I’d recommend to everybody. We eat three meals a day, every day! That doesn’t mean it needs to be complicated, fancy, time-consuming, or expensive. In fact, it generally isn’t.
Before I gave up plastic in 2012, I assumed many things were difficult to make, simply because I always bought them… and so did everybody else. Shopping without packaging made me explore whether I could make these things myself. In most cases, the answer was yes – and very simply.
I encourage everybody to eat more real food. Actual ingredients. Plenty of fruit and vegetables. Whole foods. The recipes I share are simple and easy to replicate, and I’m able to buy the ingredients without packaging (hopefully you can too, although it might depend on where you live).
Today I eat a plant-based diet. That means I prefer to eat fruit, vegetables, grains, nuts and pulses. I’ve been a meat-eater, pescatarian, and a vegetarian. Whilst the recipes I share today are dairy- and egg-free, that wasn’t always the case. Everyone is on their own journey, and you won’t any find judgement here. Just good food ;)
Recipes
These are all the recipes currently available on the blog. If real food, cooking from scratch and plant-based eating is something you’d like to know more about, I’d also recommend you follow along on Instagram as I tend to share food related things far more often than on my website.
- How to Make DIY Coconut Milk from Scratch (A Recipe)
- Plastic-free living: 10 foods I make from scratch
- How to Make DIY Crackers, Zero Baking Skills Required
- Zero Waste Kitchen: A Recipe for (Donât Laugh) Mung Bean Bread
- How to Make DIY Nut Butters + Homemade Nutella (Chocolate Hazelnut Spread)
- DIY Recipe: Spreadable Soft Cashew Cheese
- Recipe: How To Make (Plastic Free + Zero Waste) Seed Crackers
- Fight Food Waste: How to Make Refrigerator Pickles
- Zero Waste Kitchen: DIY Chickpea Falafels Recipe
- Zero Waste Pesto, Four Ways (4 Plant Based Recipes)
- A Beginners Guide to Sauerkraut (+ Fermented Vegetables)
- How to Make (Scrappy) Apple Cider Vinegar from Scratch
- Why and How To Make Nut Milk (It Isnât Just About the Brownies) (although, these chocolate brownies are worth making nut milk for…)
- DIY Sourdough Starter + Zero Waste Crackers
- A Beginnerâs Guide to Aquafaba
- Zero Waste Strawberry Recipes (And None of Them Are Jam)
- Food Waste That You Can âRe-Useâ
- 5 Superfoods You Already Have in the Cupboard
- Recipe: Carrot Pulp Cracker Flatbreads
- A Recipe: Banana Chocolate Surprise Muffins
- Make your own: plastic-free, sugar-free muesli
- Oven-roasted chickpeas â a plastic free alternative to potato chips?
- Forgive me, for I have sinned (plus a recipe for coconut yoghurt) (dairy free)
- Possibly the best raw chocolate brownie ever
- Roasting, Soaking, Sprouting, Activating, or Eating Raw â a guide to eating nuts
- Wakame gomasio: what it is and how to make it
- Experimenting with seed milks
- Awesome rawsome chocolate mousse!
- How to make your own sprouts!
- Plastic-free Sweetcorn
- Raw Chocolate Nut Butter Cups
- Making Almond Butter
- Recipe! Cacao Banana Smoothie
- Homemade hummus and tzatziki
- How toâ¦make cashew nut milk
- How toâ¦make labne (cheese) and Greek-style yoghurt
- Baking Sourdough Bread.
- How toâ¦make your own natural yoghurt
- Green smoothies
Other Thoughts on Real Food
Not recipes, but other tips and thoughts for eating more real food.
- Why I Choose a Plant-Based Diet (but no, Iâm not a vegan)
- How to Eat Clean
- The sustainable, ethical, natural way to eat â the âcleanâ approach
- Do you know whatâs in your food? (And can you trust your supermarket?)
- One reason why I donât shop at Supermarkets
- The irony of the âtreatâ
- Modern Milk
If you’d like to know more about shopping plastic-free, or how to start a zero waste pantry, you might find the Plastic-Free and Zero Waste sections of my website useful. If you have any questions, you’re always welcome to email me at hello@treadingmyownpath.com. My inbox is always open!
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Lindsay Miles is an educator, speaker, author and passionate zero waste/plastic-free living advocate helping others live more meaningful lives with less waste and less stuff. She has been sharing ideas, tips, tricks and strategies on her website Treading My Own Path since 2013. Her first book, Less Stuff, was published in 2019 and her second, The Less Waste No Fuss Kitchen was published in June 2020. Originally from the UK, Lindsay now lives in Perth, Western Australia.
