If you’re planning to enjoy the sunshine this weekend with a barbecue, see Eleanor O’Leary’s swaps for serving up a BBQ feast with a conscience.
It’s the last Bank Holiday in the UK before Christmas (sad times) but it’s set to be a scorcher (good times), so wheel out the BBQ, get the playlist ready, and invite your nearest and dearest over for an afternoon of feasting and fun.
Here are our tips for making your last-minute bank holiday BBQ as delicious and sustainable as possible:
Swap Regular Ketchup for Ketchup Made From Food Waste
No BBQ is complete without the ultimate ketchup, and conscious condiments creator Rubies In The Rubble believes it has cracked the perfect sustainable sauce. Made using tomatoes and rescued pears for sweetness, its ketchup is 100% natural and has 50% less refined sugar than the leading ketchup brands. Furthermore, for every 100kg of product sold, Rubies saves 45.kg of pears – the equivalent of 17.5kg of CO2E.
Swap Supermarket Veggies for Wonky Veg
There’s nothing better than using locally-sourced local, seasonal veg for the ultimate BBQ skewers, and August gives us an abundance of tasty treats as we wind down the summer days. If you can’t get down to your local farmers’ market, wonky-veg warrior OddBox works directly with farmers and growers to take their seasonal surplus produce and deliver them straight to your door. By working directly with local suppliers, Oddbox are helping fight food waste, supporting local growers, and with up to 10% of their produce donated to local charities, they’re doing their bit to combat food poverty too.