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title: "Food Like at Mom's House: Your Shortcut to Sustainable Living"
description: A humble reflection on how cooking the way your mother and grandmother did is the simplest path to sustainable living. Reduce food waste, save money, slow do...
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-05-31T22:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-10-28T21:45:35.280Z
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There is a word we use now that your mother never needed. Sustainable. We put it on packaging. We build brands around it. We attend talks about it, buy books about it, follow people who have made a career of explaining it. We treat sustainability as though it were a new invention, a modern aspiration, something that requires education, intention and a certain income bracket to achieve.

Your mother just called it Tuesday.

She bought what was in season because it was cheaper. She used the entire chicken because throwing away food was unthinkable. She made soup from bones, bread from yesterday's flour, and dinner from whatever was left in the fridge on a Thursday evening when the week's shopping had run thin. She did not call it zero waste. She called it common sense. She did not call it mindful eating. She called it sitting down together.

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