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Taking your dinner parties outside means you get to enjoy those long summer days rather than being cramped in the kitchen. And like they do on Supper Club, make sure to thank Mother Earth for all these beautiful summer days by keeping your grill-out parties as eco-friendly as possible.
Pass on the bottled water. The U.S. sends two million tons of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottled water packaging to the landfill each year. This huge waste can easily be avoided by drinking filtered tap water like reverse osmosis filtered water. Reverse osmosis removes all toxins, contaminates, impurities, and chemicals from your water. It is often much cleaner than bottled water.
Choose free range. Don't grill with anything less than the best. Choose the highest quality meat and poultry that you can get your hands on. It's better for your guests and much easier on the environment. Free range cattle and chickens feed on locally grown grains without herbicides, pesticides, or chemicals. They also do their own fertilizing. The picture is much bleaker for mass produced chickens and cattle. Their feed is shipped to them from distant fields. The feed is harvested from crops that are treated with fossil fuel based fertilizers and sprayed with pesticides. The crops are planted, tilled, and harvested with heavy equipment. Then the feed is shipped to feed manufacturers and then to the animals. Avoid all those extra steps and all those fossil fuels just by buying free range meat and poultry.
Dine on eco-friendly patio furniture. Polywood patio furniture is 100 percent post-consumer waste, comprised of specially processed recycled plastic soda bottles and milk jugs once destined for the landfill. Try this alternative to plastic or wood patio furniture.
Clean the grill naturally. There's no need to use harsh chemicals to clean off your grill once you're done using it. Who wants to eat off a grill when it was cleaned with toxin laced chemicals? Scrape the grill while it's still hot so it's clean for the next use. Before you grill the next time clean the grate with baking soda and a wire brush.
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