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Eat and Buy Sustainable Food

Information on where to find, buy and enjoy local food to help you reduce your carbon footprint

For You

We have lots of help to keep you and your family on track with healthy eating.  Eating fresh fruit and vegetables, wholegrains and good quality meat and fish provide the necessary nutrients that your body needs to create new cells, clean toxins, and to just function every day!  Eating healthily can help prevent future diseases, give you more energy and help you be more alert.

Eatwell guide
The Eatwell Guide helps us eat a healthy
balanced diet and shows the proportions of
the food and drinks that make up a healthy diet. 

For the environment

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If you manage to eat great, local, fresh, sustainable, fair trade and organic food whenever you can, you will not only be doing your bit for your own health and wellbeing, but you will be supporting the local economy, helping to provide good and stable jobs for workers around the world, giving farm animals a better life and going easy on our fragile planet.   30% of greenhouse emissions in the UK are from our food systems but if we eat locally produced food we can help to cut these emissions.  For every £1 invested in local food between £6 and £8 stays in the local economy in the form of improved social and economic outcomes, including health and wellbeing, training and skills.

Be part of the future food vision for Edinburgh:

Here’s what you can do to make “Good Food choices” and be part of the movement for change

Help make sure everyone has access to fresh, fair, healthy, affordable food

Ask your local shop to consider selling more fresh, local, healthy food

Choose fresh food wherever possible

Choose fair trade food wherever possible

Volunteer for a local community organisation working on food issues

Use growing and cooking food to bring your community together:

Cook from scratch with your friends or neighbours

Grow your own food – at home in window boxes or pots, in an allotment of community garden

Find ways to share your skills with food, from recipes to tips on finding great produce

If you cook too much, share with your neighbours 

Enjoy and celebrate diverse, tasty and healthy food

Share recipes and host a food event

Talk about good food – to your friends, neighbours and community

Support our local food economy:

Shop local

Try out a veg box scheme from a local farm

Start your own food enterprise or food buying co-op

Ask your school or employer to serve good, local food

Make sure your food is good for the planet as well as you

Keep a reusable shopping bag handy

Choose local, seasonal, organic food when you can

Eat less but better quality meat and dairy, supporting high animal welfare standards

Avoid and recycle packaging

Plan meals and use up leftovers to avoid wasting food

Recycle food waste that you can’t avoid or compost

Shopping for Sustainable Food

Markets and Farm Shops

  • Craigie’s Farm Shop
  • Edinburgh Farmers Market
  • Grassmarket, Leith, Stockbridge Markets

Vegetable and Food Box Deliveries

  • East Coat Organics
  • Edinburgh Community Food
  • Whitmuir Organics

Refill Shops, plastic free outlets, community shops and co-ops

There is an increasing demand from consumers for producers and food distributors to reduce the amount of “single use plastics” in food packaging. Refill shops and some of the national chains offer an alternative, providing you with the option to purchase loose food and other household products free of packaging. You will find dried goods that you purchase and take home in your own container, unpackaged fruit and vegetables and milk in glass bottles. Local and ethically sourced products are also part of the product range stocked in refill shops.

Local outlets include:

  • Dig In Bruntsfield
  • Eco Larder
  • Real Foods – Tollcross and Broughton Street
  • The New Leaf Co-op – Marchmont
  • The Refillery – Corstorphine and Newington
  • Weigh to Go – Leith

Resources

Community Food and Health Scotland has a wide range of resources for individuals, groups and communities. The work aligns with the national food and health policy to ensure that everyone in Scotland has access to a healthy diet. A useful resource if  you are wanting to set up a new food project, research a policy area or find funding.

Food for Life Scotland is about transforming our food culture and making it easier for local authorities to get fresh, local, sustainable food onto school dinner plates. The nationwide Soil Association programme is funded by Scottish Government and includes recipes and resources  on growing and seasonal food.

Get involved!

There are lots of ways you can help Edinburgh reach its sustainable food goals and build a better city for future generations.

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