Eat

To privilege a local but diverse food diet, many options are available.

Food Coop

Which Food Coop Is Right for You?

East village – The 4th Food Coop - Working/Non working members.
Park Slope, Brooklyn - Park Slope Food Coop - Working members only.
Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn - Windsor Terrace Food Coop - Working members only but members of any Brooklyn food coop can shop here.
Flatbush, Brooklyn - Flatbush Food Coop - Members/non-members.
Fort Greene, Brooklyn - Greene Hill Food Coop - Working members only.
Bushwick, Brooklyn Bushwick Food Cooperative - Non-members and working members.

Farmers Market

Support local farmers and dig up for some just-picked fresh fruits and vegetables, heritage meats, award-winning farmstead cheeses, Brooklyn honey and many more treasures.

To find a greenmarket near you check the Grow NYC webpage.

Don’t forget to bring your own reusable bag, produce bags and/or containers to carry your precious produce, dairy, meat or fish !

In addition to getting fresh products, you also get the opportunity to meet and support the producers and create a social connection! Your food will only taste better…

Package free stores and bulk section

Williamsburg, Brooklyn - Package Free - This package free store offers the largest choice of items available on the market. Subscriptions available for bigger savings. They also have an outpost in Chelsea Market, Manhattan.
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn - The Fillery - Package free store with a wide variety of food and products for both the house and personal care.
Bushwick, Brooklyn - Precycle - Package free store
Whole Foods and its 13 locations across Brooklyn and Manhattan offer a great and extensive bulk section
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn - Perelandra offers a bulk section
... and more bulk food options in NY state up to date here on Litterless.

Groceries BYO...

Tote bags/Backpack, produce bags, containers
Bring back consigned glass jar (milk, beer, cider bottles etc.)
The best packaging is no packaging. If not available choose cardboard or glass over plastic.

Note that we encourage the boycott of Amazon for both social and environmental reasons.

The journey to a plant-based diet

1. Go Reducetarian

People "committed to eating less meat - red meat, poultry, and seafood - as well as less dairy and fewer eggs, regardless of the degree or motivation. "

2. Go Vegetarian

There are too many positive reasons to become veggie why won't you? What about starting with a flexitarian philosophy and after 3 months becoming a vegetarian?

3. Go Vegan

A transition plan or sign up to vegan22.com
A grocery vegan list
Supplement yourself in B12. Animals are supplemented in B12 nowadays anyways so you are just cutting the middle (innocent) man.
Use Marie Assaker's Google map list to find all the vegan options around you :)

4. Speak up for the animals

Visit the Cube of Truth organized by Anonymous for the Voiceless (in Manhattan: Union Square or Washington Square park every Friday evening).

Food box, CSA & groceries delivery services

No time to go shopping? There are several options available in the New York area:

- Fresh Food Box: service by Grow NYC, in collaboration with local farmers (some products do come in plastic but they try to limit the amount).

- MisFits Market: delivers groceries to your door. Produces are usually organic. Packaging comes in compostable plastic bags and compostable insulation.

- The Wally Shop : zero waste grocery delivery service, using glass containers, reusable produce bags, etc.

- Rustic Roots: local produces delivered to your door.

- CSA (Communauted Supported Agriculture) – some CSAs require financial committment for an entire season, others ask that you volunteer a few hours per months, some deliver to your home, others offer pick-up. There are numerous CSAs in New York City, below are only a few examples :

o Local Roots : pick-up points in Manhattan and Brooklyn, also offer deliveries

o Fishkill Farms : pick-up at the Caroll Gardens Greenmarket

o Central Brooklyn CSA : pick-up in Crown Heights

o West Harlem CSA : partner with an organic farm, pick-up in West Harlem

Plant-based milk

They don’t contain lactose or cholesterol
They’re low in fat
They have a high percentage of mono and polyunsaturated fats, which are great for the heart.
They’re high in vitamin B
They have a good balance between sodium and potassium
They’re perfect for people with slow digestion, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, etc…

Create your own Vegetable Milk, this is soooo easy

Almond Milk
Oat Milk
Walnut
Rice milk
Hemp milk
1. shelled hemp seeds
2. hemp protein powder
3. hemp oil
4. hemp milk

Super grains/Super nutriments

They don’t contain lactose or cholesterol
They’re low in fat
They have a high percentage of mono and polyunsaturated fats, which are great for the heart.
They’re high in vitamin B
They have a good balance between sodium and potassium
They’re perfect for people with slow digestion, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, etc…

Create your own Vegetable Milk, this is soooo easy

Moringa - Nutu
Fonio

Almond and Avocado - Not as healthy and eco friendly as you think

Almond alternative - Sunflower Seed Butter

Sunflower seed butter is often used as a replacement for peanut butter or tree nut butters, especially for people with peanut allergies. Sunflower seed butter contains more monounsaturated fats than almond butter, and it also delivers 3.66 milligrams of vitamin E, which is a little more than one-fifth of the amount adults need daily. Sunflower seed butter doesn't contain as much fiber as almond butter, but it does supply more folate. Sunflower seed butter can replace almond butter on a slice of toast

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