Have yourself a merry
Livewell Christmas

Worried about the impact indulging on Christmas food might have on your health and the environment? Well, if you follow WWF’s simple Livewell eating principles, you needn’t worry any longer.

Our Livewell Christmas menu and top tips offer you a great way to enjoy a traditional Christmas – including roast turkey, roast potatoes and trimmings, and a lovely Christmas pudding for afters, of course – which is good for people and the planet.

Follow our top tips for a Livewell Christmas:

1) Eat more fruit and vegetables
Seasonal fruit and veg help you achieve the true Christmas taste – but we don’t have to only eat Brussels sprouts and white cabbage! Lots of vegetables are in storage at this time of year, so we can feast on onion, squash, beetroot and red cabbage, to name just a few.

Visit Eat Seasonably for more information about what’s in season now.

2) Waste less food
We buy, eat and waste more food at Christmas than any other time of the year. It’s predicted that Brits will spend £33 billion on festive food this Christmas, an amazing 3.8% increase from last year.

As a result, we eat our way through an average of 6,000 calories on Christmas Day – well above the recommended 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men. Moreover, last year we wasted a staggering 230,000 tonnes of this festive food.

For information on how to reduce the amount of food you waste, visit Wrap.

3) Eat less meat
About 10 million turkeys are eaten at Christmas each year in the UK.

There are ways to reduce the amount of meat you buy and waste you produce; use your leftovers to make other festive dishes – from turkey and cranberry pies to turkey and parsnip curry – or stock.

Visit Wrap for more information on how to support the ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ campaign.

4) Eat less highly-processed food
Cook from scratch – it’s the best way to fill the house with traditional Christmas smells.

5) Eat certified food
Ensure all your meat and eggs meet RSPCA Freedom Food standards and that your Christmas salmon bears the MSC logo.