Tip from the Creation Care Ministry

We can all do our part to save the planet one meal at a time. How? By eating less meat.
“No politician wants to be the one to break the news that sooner than later, for the health of the planet, most of us are going to have to learn to eat a whole lot less meat,” writes food editor, Bee Wilson in How to Make a Nation of Meat Eaters Crave the Humble Bean, an essay that ran in The New York Times August 12 as part of What to Eat on a Burning Planet, a series exploring bold ideas to secure our food supply.
Wilson’s smart and hopeful piece concludes, “If anyone tells you Americans will never enjoy beans as much as they do meat, think of just a few of the once little-known foods, from pesto to tofu and gochujang, that have been welcomed gratefully onto American tables in recent decades. The more new plant foods a person learns to enjoy, the less room there is on the plate for hamburgers.”
Merry Wheaton, a member of All Saints’ Creation Care Ministry, suggests this refreshing salad for lunch or dinner, “because it’s just too blasted hot to cook!”
Toss together watermelon, strawberries, feta cheese, olives, and spearmint. For more protein, add a scoop of cottage cheese on the side or take 5 minutes to toast some sliced or slivered almonds in a skillet and sprinkle them on top. Yummy without any dressing but also good with a touch of Brianna’s Rich Poppyseed Dressing or your dressing of choice.Do you have a plant-based recipe you’d like to share with the parish? Make it, take your own photo and send to Merry Wheaton, [email protected]