THE KITCHEN ACTIVIST

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary September marks the beginning of Hispanic, LatinX Heritage Month. Each year Americans observe this time from September 15th to October 15th, to celebrate the histories, cultures, and contributions of Americans whose ancestry comes from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.  In this podcast episode, I celebrate the contributions of farm worker...

Send us Fan Mail Is your refrigerator bursting to the brim with sauces and condiments, crowding out your other food? What if I told you at least half of them don't belong in your refrigerator?  The refrigerator is the best place to minimize food waste, as 43% of all food loss happens in home kitchens. The best way to free-up space in the fridge is with this handy guide on what really needs to...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary This episode is the first in a series of Q & A with myself and my team member extraordinaire, Alana. These questions were chosen from those sent in by listeners. If you have a question you'd like answered in a future episode, email info@eatlesswater.com. Your questions are answered in the last episode of every month. Contact for Alana www.instagram.com/the...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Imagine you just went shopping at the grocery store or farmer's market. You bought enough food to fill three shopping bags. You place the shopping bags in the grocery cart. You walk toward your car and on the way take one of those bags, the one that has the most perishable things, and throw it into the trash can. This is not too far from the truth. The only th...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary How many eggs do you think the average American eats? The answer might surprise you. It's 250 eggs per year. If you calculate 250 eggs per year and multiply by the average water footprint of one egg, which is 23 gallons of water the total is 5,750 gallons of water per year per person.   The largest share of water to produce eggs flows to the fields of grain. ...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Over the weekend, I celebrated my birthday with friends on the beach. It's become my standard celebration. Each year I make the main dish, the entree, and it changes from year to year, depending on my mood  or what I've been cooking lately. This time it was empanadas. As I rolled the dough into circles, and filled each with savory ingredients, the morning...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary The following news article came up in my newsfeed  Steep Water Cuts Are Coming For the Southwest As Colorado River Shrinks and Lake Mead's Level Plummets . I think it’s safe to say you have seen a similar article in recent days. And like me, you are concerned. So, what does that have to do with farm-to-table restaurants? And I'd say it has everything to d...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary This episode honors the memory of Supervisor Carmen Ramirez, friend, activist, and mentor. She died over the weekend tragically and suddenly. In this episode, I share parts of the blueprint she left for us to follow to turn our hope for better communities into action. Articles LA Times Article ABC NEWS KEYT NEWS Links and resources: Download FREE the TEN TIPS to EA...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary In this episode, I build our shared vocabulary of sustainable food and explain the term holistic managed .  Language is power. And when we know the terminology we can partner with techniques to grow-wellbeing simply by reaching for these food ingredients when we see them at the market or start asking for them.  Having an understanding of the agricultural methods th...

Send us Fan Mail Links and resources: Download FREE the TEN TIPS to EAT LESS WATER SUMMER PARTY PLANNING GUIDE for all the tips, steps, and info on how to celebrate like a kitchen activist with your friends and family. Find gifts designed to serve well-being at the Eat Less Water Shop. Get a copy of the EAT LESS WATER book Celebrate   summer with DRY FARM WINE. They curate delicious, low-sugar, or...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Now imagine you are at the grocery store in the milk section. You have many choices from organic to non-organic, and non-dairy alternatives. Which do you reach for?  Whether you are drinking milk from dairy cows or the dairy alternative, like soy, almond, or oat, the action tip for today’s episode is to reach for the organic option always. Even better, reach for th...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Last week I introduced the concept of meal planning. In that episode, I said, Some of you already have a meal planning, practice, which is great. And some of you don't have a meal planning practice. Once you start meal planning, you're going to wonder what took you so long.   But what does it take to build a new habit?  At its essence, activism is getting...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary: According to government stats, we eat a lot of bread, about 55 loaves of bread a year per person. In the average lifetime, those loaves of bread add up to about 87,000 slices in a lifetime. How much water are we eating in all those loaves?  If the water footprint of bread, that is how much water it takes to grow the grain to make one slice is 11 gallons and we mul...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary: During the first 8-weeks of the HOW to EAT LESS WATER podcast I’ve shared many simple ideas to turn our shared hope for a cleaner more sustainable environment into action . But the foundation of all the action steps offered thus far is MEAL PLANNING. This one action step in many ways is the container or storage bin where all the action tips are organized. In the b...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Recently I sent my teenage son, Joaquin to pick up flour tortillas for dinner. He handed me the package and said without prompting, this is the only brand that didn’t have palm oil. It has become second nature to look for this ingredient for all of us in the family. But it hasn’t always been the case. I didn’t connect the dots between palm oil, and global water sys...

Send us Fan Mail Eat Less Water Opportunity COOK WITH ME. Join me for a virtual live pizza party.  l will talk about how I choose ingredients to save water, offer batch cooking ideas, recipes, shopping list, with plant-based pizza topping ideas. I will provide you will a invitation template so you can invite friends over to join you. Here is a link to learn more . Episode Summary Eating and shoppi...

Send us Fan Mail Eat Less Water Opportunity COOK WITH ME. Join me for a virtual live pizza party.  l will talk about how I choose ingredients to save water, offer batch cooking ideas, recipes, shopping list, with plant-based pizza topping ideas. I will provide you will a invitation template so you can invite friends over to join you. Here is a link to learn more .  Episode Summary Coffee is such a...

Send us Fan Mail Eat Less Water Opportunity COOK WITH ME. Join me for a virtual live pizza party.  l will talk about how I choose ingredients to save water, offer batch cooking ideas, recipes, shopping list, with plant-based pizza topping ideas. I will provide you will a invitation template so you can invite friends over to join you. Here is a link to learn more .  Episode Summary The refined and...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Tomorrow is world chocolate day, July 7th. I don’t need much reason to celebrate chocolate I always have bars of chocolate in my pantry ready for an afternoon nibble. When my kids, who are now teenagers,  were babies, I held their tiny hands within mine and rubbed them together like they held the wooden handle of a molinillo, a chocolate whisk. We sang the same Spa...

Send us Fan Mail Eat Less Water Opportunity COOK WITH ME. Join me for a virtual live pizza party.  l will talk about how I choose ingredients to save water, offer batch cooking ideas, recipes, shopping list, with plant-based pizza topping ideas. I will provide you will a invitation template so you can invite friends over to join you. Here is a link to learn more . Episode Summary You are either li...

Send us Fan Mail Eat Less Water Opportunity COOK WITH ME. Join me for a virtual live pizza party.  l will talk about how I choose ingredients to save water, offer batch cooking ideas, recipes, shopping list, with plant-based pizza topping ideas. I will provide you will a invitation template so you can invite friends over to join you. Here is a link to learn more . Episode Summary This episode may...

Send us Fan Mail Many of us are setting out on road trips this summer. I’m getting ready for my own. I will travel 900 miles stretching from where I sit now in Oxnard, California to Santa Fe New Mexico. It takes about 15 hours and three meals to get there.  The roads that lead us from here to there regardless of where are dotted with fast food joints. They serve food that is not the best for water...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode get ready to plan your next summer gathering or party Eat Less Water style. I will introduce the first tip from the FREE 14-page Eat Less Water Summer Party Planning Guide: Plan your Menu and Incorporate more Plant-Based Dishes.  Writing a menu plan for parties both large and small is something you likely do already. But what makes it an eat less water menu plan di...

Send us Fan Mail Eat Less Water Opportunity COOK WITH ME. Join me for a virtual live pizza party.  l will talk about how I choose ingredients to save water, offer batch cooking ideas, recipes, shopping list, with plant-based pizza topping ideas. I will provide you will a invitation template so you can invite friends over to join you. Here is a link to learn more . EPISODE SUMMARY Drops of water sa...

Send us Fan Mail Consider this one glass of white wine is equivalent to 29 gallons of water. And one glass of red wine is 32 gallons of water.    If you look at the entire wine region area in the U S wine grapes sipped a little over 1 trillion gallons of water from wells and rivers in one year alone.   Climate change is going to increase the need for irrigation. We're already beginning to see...