Creation Care: Green Xmas Ideas

For Greener Festive Eating, have you considered?

Searching for sustainability certifications for the food and drink you’re serving this festive season?   

Checking your palm oil is RSPO-certified? This means it has been sourced from sustainably managed palm farms.   

Are you serving fish? Could you look for the MSC-certified logo? This indicates that the seafood is sustainably caught, and the ASC-certified logo for farmed seafood.   

Serving tea, coffee, chocolate, and sweets? Could you look for Soil Association Organic or Fair Trade certifications? These certifications mean that the items have been grown sustainably and help ensure farmers are paid fairly.   

Could you try the Impact Score app? This can help you find sustainable products to shop for in UK supermarkets. 

...that “packaged in the UK” is not the same as “produced in the UK”?

Buying seasonal veg? We invite you to consider the traditional UK-grown winter root vegetables, such as potatoes, parsnips, carrots, beetroots, cabbage, squash, broccoli, and cauliflower.   

Buying seasonal fruit? Could you stick to UK produce, such as apples and pears?

Supporting the UK farmers? We can reduce the emissions associated with transporting food to the UK by air. Buying fruits and vegetables that have been shipped to the UK by boat? Such as bananas and clementines?

Having a look through Riverford Organics’ online “handy guides” to see what fruits and vegetables are in season every week of the year. 

Using frozen, jarred, or canned vegetables and fruits? This allows you to enjoy more exotic fruits and vegetables out of season, with a smaller environmental footprint.


Dorset Council have a page on Facebook and X with lots more eco tips and info - if you have a social media account just search for them.