Taking your meal to-go has some serious consequences.

Single-use bags, plastic bottles, food containers and food wrappers are the four most widespread items polluting the seas, making up almost half of the human-made waste.

And depressingly, plastic use tripled since the start of the pandemic and takeout waste is at least partly to blame.

At the current rate, online orders are projected to grow tenfold by 2030. UGH.

Nude Foods gives you an alternative: our chef-prepared vegan takeout meals that come in returnable glass jars.

But if you are getting takeout, you can immediately limit your takeout waste by making small changes:

• Request no disposable napkins, plastic utensils, straws and unnecessary condiments
• Opt out of a plastic bag
• Reuse your to-go containers
• Support businesses making eco-friendly choices
  
  

But we don’t like to do things by halves, so here are things you can do to REALLY make a difference:

However hard I explain that I don’t want single use packaging, something plastic always ends up in my order so instead I go to the restaurant, order food “for here” then when it comes I scrape the meal into tupperware and head straight home to share it with my family. 

This obviously works best in more take out style restaurants rather than going somewhere super fancy!

Just Eat In:

Being British, takeout is less of a cultural norm to me. I find the food doesn’t taste as good, I find the ordering process stressful (when I’m hungry I don’t want to have to wait an hour to get the food!) and the packaging piece of it just kills me. Plus you have to clear up afterwards. Honestly, I think it’s easier, more delicious and less wasteful to just cook yourself OR just eat in.

And if you don’t want to cook, we do that for you every single week! Our chef-prepared takeout meals are one of our most-loved items by our customers. They’re healthy, delicious, and go from jar to table in 5 min! We restock every Saturday morning, so come in and stock up for the week!

Eating in gives you a real break. You get your food way quicker. You get quality time with family or friends and when you get home, there’s no mess to clean up or ‘stuff’ to dispose of. Win-win-win!

Order Extra:

Finding the time to cook can be hard so another thing I do is order 2 meals at a restaurant, eat one and put the second into my own container for the next night. That way dinner is sorted and no waste was created. I especially love to do this when I venture to the vegan restaurants in Denver. My faves are Blue Sushi Sake Grill (best vegan sushi in the world!), Watercourse Foods and City o’ City. At City o’ City I order extra ‘Chicken’ and waffles to take home plus their BBQ ‘ribs’.

Food Trucks:

I love going to the Rayback Collective in Boulder especially on vegan food truck night. There’s lots of food choice plus most trucks let me take my own tupperware and they’re happy to put it in there.