Section 02: Food

Section 2 Table of Contents

02011 Food First — Why food is such a great place to start and the consequences of doing so.

02021 Household and Community Food Security — Ten principles on which to build a food system that cares for people, cares for the planet, and has a care for the future.

02031 Foodshed — Studying the geographies of your personal and community food system.

02041 Food justice — Justice for farmers, farm workers, customers, and all Creation. A definition of distributive justice and why it is important.

02051 Invisible structures and food — The invisible structures governing and regulating your food system are as critical as weather, soil, and fertility.

02061 Food system inventory — What can you know about your personal and community food system?

02061.1 Food System Inventory spreadsheet — A way to record your observations. Download at http://www.ipermie.net/.

02071 Food without land — 11 ways to produce food in cities even if you don't own any land. Part 1 of this important discussion.

02081 Permacultured kitchen — Applying permaculture principles to household and community food systems.

02091 Food Security for College Students — Moving your institution towards a more holistic food system.

02101 Menu planning — The most basic act of household and community food security is to prepare meals from basic ingredients. The role of menu planning in household frugality, nutrition, and food security.

02111 Casino shopping — Learning how to shop at a supermarket is a critical urban food skill

02121 Frugal shopping — 15 shopping rules that will save you money.

02131 Bread — This is a great place to start making improvements in your household food system.

02141 Baking station — Mise in place for baking.

02151 Kitchen zones — Using this evaluation technique to create a kitchen that works for you and your household.

02161 Recipe conversion — Expanding recipes for quantity cooking.

02171 Food frugality — Seven principles to help keep the cost of your food affordable.

02181 Learning to cook — Why you need to do this and the most basic steps in that direction.

02191 Stock — A rich and nutritious stock is the basis for tasty and healthy soups, stews, gravies, and sauces.

02201 Gravy — Gravy is one of the founding blocks of civilization. Learn how to make it the way grandma did.

02211 Casseroles — Applying the "theory of casseroles" to make tasty low-cost meals.

02221 Fun foods and snacks — Supermarket junk food wastes money. Make your own tasty and more healthy treats.

02231 Cooking vegetables — A survey of the methods.

02241 Portable foods — Options available for food on the go that don't involve transnational food corporations.

02251 Food safety — Why it is important and what to watch out for. The problem of food-borne bacteria.

02251.1 Kitchen Sanitation — Download PDF from http://www.ipermie.net.

02261 Meats — A survey of more sustainable meat options.

02271 Kitchen records — Keeping track of what you eat, where you get it, and what it costs. Why this is helpful.

02281 Home Food Preservation — A survey of the popular methods.

02291 Home Food Storage — Store what you eat and eat what you store. Why keeping some of your household savings in food is essential.

02301 Design a Fermentation Station — More mise en place! What's that you say?

02311 Basic nutrition readings — USDA, Weston Price, Vegan, and Vegetarian options.

02321 Edible Landscaping — How to do it in the city.

02331 Food equipment — Useful for preparing, preserving and processing.

02341 Design a storage solution for your lifestyle food system — Food and cooking involve stuff. What to do with your food stuff when you are not cooking or eating.

02351 Kitchen skills — A list of the basics and more advanced areas.

02361 Compost — Because a rind is a terrible thing to waste.

02371 How to grow some of your own food — Part 2 of growing food in the city. Here is where you find the container gardening information.

02381 Avoiding Food Pollution — Discusses the prevalence of pesticide and herbicide residues on commercial produce. Provides lists of vegetables classified by extent of residues. Vegetables you should always eat organic.

02391 How to start a local food cooperative — Lessons learned from the real-life story of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative.

02401 Food Stamp Challenge — Our real-life experience keeping food purchases to a food stamp budget.

02411 Food Stamp Challenge Spreadsheet — Data from our experience (download at http://www.ipermie.net/).

02421 Design a college food system — What would your college food system look like if it were designed in accordance with permaculture principles?

02431 Design a personal food system — What does your personal food system look liked designed via permaculture principles?

02441 Natural Lawn Care — Maintaining your lawn as if you cared for people, cared for the planet, and cared for the future.

02451 Food Design Issues — Finding beneficial connections among the six design challenges of this section.

02461 Additional Resources for Food

Note about recipes: This book originates in the United States, and as the author and recipe compiler, my only cooking experience is with U.S. non-metric measurements. Those using metric measurements can consult US to Metric (and Metric to US) Conversions — http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/cooking