Bittman explains that compared to technological fixes, eating less meat is easy:

[W]e can begin eating less meat tomorrow. That’s something any of us can do, with no technological advances. If personal choice enacted on a large scale could literally save the world, maybe we have to talk about it that way. We could be heroes, like Bruce Willis in “Armageddon,” only maybe the sacrifice is on a more modest and easier scale.

One easy way to reduce meat consumption is to choose simple and tasty plant-based meals such as PB&J sandwiches, tofu stir-fries, and homemade veggie burgers.

The full article is here.

“Yes, nuts are packed with calories, but they are also packed with nutrition.  And they fill you up, thereby ‘crowding out’ room in your belly for high-calorie, nutrient-poor foods.  A body of research shows that eating nuts in moderation actually helps you lose weight…They also appear to boost our metabolism, meaning when we eat nuts we burn more of our own fat to compensate.”

Though technically a legume rather than a nut, from a dietary standpoint peanuts fall into this same group: they’re nutrient-dense and filling.

Although it’s possible to have too much of a good thing (and really, any healthy food eventually has upper limits), a PB&J sandwich, almonds with your green beans, or walnuts in your salad each each day is not only eco-friendly but waistline-friendly.

The cookies went quickly. And nobody (except us) knew they were vegan, until we told them. We also passed out the PB&J Campaign brochure, which lets people know how they can save resources by choosing simple plant-based meals such as PB&J sandwiches.

In case you’re curious…an online search for “vegan peanut butter cookies recipe” yields enough recipes for a lifetime, and lots of interesting and tasty-looking variations.

Shout-out and great job!

At each store, we gave away PB&J mini-sandwiches (artfully cut into triangles) as well as coupons, squeeze packs of peanut butter, and the PB&J Campaign brochure , which touts the resource savings of simple plant-based meals such as PB&J. Major thank-you to Peanut Butter & Co. for their generous donation of peanut butter and coupons.

The customers at both stores were quite receptive. It’s great to find out that your favorite sandwich is also earth-friendly. Many shoppers took the brochures and some asked environmental or health questions about peanut butter.

We may be doing similar events for Earth Day later in the month.

If you or your group would like to do this type of PB&J outreach, we can probably help with supplies. Contact us and/or check out our newly-revised Event Toolkit.

Meanwhile, at the Texas VegFest, which drew 3500 people and had an impressive list of speakers and vendors, one of the festival organizers gave out hard-copy “Take the PB&J Pledge” forms as well as free peanut butter samples (thanks again to Peanut Butter & Co.). The crowd was very receptive here, too. We’ll have more details about this event soon…

Update: Peanut Butter & Co. will be giving away peanut butter squeeze packs and coupons to festival-goers who fill out the PB&J Pledge.

Soon, we’ll have an option on the web site to make it easy to access the hard-copy pledge form. For now, if you’d like to present the form at a festival, feed-in, or any other occasion, you can download it from the above link, or we can mail you a bunch of copies; email us at pbj@pbjcampaign.org if interested.

We’ll have more news about the PB&J pledge in the not-too-distant future.

We’re very appreciative of the staffs at both Whole Foods, which have been very supportive of the upcoming events.

If you’re in either of these neighborhoods, stop by, say hello, and have some PB&J on us!

There are a couple (or more) other activities in the works for the big day. We’ll have more details on everything soon.

Easy on the earth and your budget

The judges liked its succinctness and simplicity. (The submitter of the slogan wishes to remain anonymous.)

Honorable mention goes to this one:

PB&J: A Plant-Based Journey to Save the Earth, One Meal at a Time!

]]> http://pbjcampaign.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=824 1 http://pbjcampaign.org/blog/?p=816 http://pbjcampaign.org/blog/?p=816#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:01:51 +0000 pbjcampaign http://pbjcampaign.org/blog/?p=816 We just created a new PB&J Campaign shirt logo, and we’re looking for a slogan for the back of the shirt.

Do you have an idea for a catchy slogan that sums up the PB&J sandwich, preferably with a reference to its low environmental footprint? If so, send it to pbj@pbjcampaign.org.

If you come up with the winning slogan, in addition to getting a free tee shirt, you’ll experience the pride of seeing your creativity in use far and wide.

Unfortunately, the deadline is tight. We’d like to start printing the shirts next week, so entries have to be received by the end of the day on Sunday, March 4. As long as it’s March 4 (or earlier) anywhere on earth when your submission shows up in our inbox, it’s valid.

In other news, we’re working on a couple of events for National PB&J Day in the Washington, DC area. More on that and other National PB&J Day activities in subsequent posts…