Living a healthy lifestyle

Sustainable and delicious

The Sustainable Food Initiative was launched by three Bühler employees as part of Generation Bühler (Gen B) to promote sustainable food as a lifestyle choice and supporting you on the journey. By delivering healthy and sustainable recipes, they want to make it as easy as possible for you to explore new options.

Gen B / Bianca Richle, June 1, 2021

To tackle the climate crisis, to save our natural forests and wildlife, and to promote healthy living, a switch to a more plant-based nutrition is needed. According to the World Wildlife Fund's “Appetite for Destruction Report”, if everyone reduced the amount of animal products that they ate to a sustainable level, “the total agricultural land required would decline by 13% – an area 1.5 times the size of the European Union.”

It is facts like these that led Gen B to introduce the sustainable food initiative at Bühler. The three Gen B members Giulia Manzolini, Kaye Mathies and Max Vögtli are running the initiative in their free time as part of their engagement for Gen B.

So, what do they suggest us to do?

“Eat mainly plants, choose sustainable sources and try something different,” says the Sustainable Food Initiative.

How can we do it?

Here are some tips on how to find new versions of your favorite dishes:

Substitute meat products with pulses and experiment with them! Your lentil bolognese will surprise you!
Make it cheesy by using nuts or nutritional yeast. Yes, it really makes your food creamy!
Bake your cake with some local flax-egg (made with flaxseeds). Your gut will thank you for the extra fiber!

The first sustainable recipe brought to you by the Sustainable Food Initiative and Mosaic Online is:

Tuna salad sandwich with a sustainable twist!

What do tuna and chickpeas have in common? They can both be made into quick and tasty salad sandwiches! The chickpea salad sandwich puts a sustainable twist on the classic American tuna salad sandwich by switching tuna with chickpeas and mayo with hummus.

Chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans, are, along with lentils, a member of the legume family. A cup of chickpeas provides almost 1/3 of an adult’s daily protein needs. Fun fact – chickpeas do not get their name from their shape (they look like the heads of little chicks) but from the Latin word ‘cicer’.

Chickpea Salad Sandwich

Recipe courtesy of The Simple Veganista

Time: 10 mins

Servings: 3

CO2e per Serving: 200 g

Ingredients

1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
Juice of ½ lemon
4-5 tablespoons hummus
2 small stalks celery, chopped

½ small red onion, chopped
½ teaspoon garlic powder
Salt & pepper to taste

Instructions

Mash chickpeas: Drain and rinse chickpeas, place in medium size bowl and roughly mash about ¾ of the chickpeas with the back of a fork or potato masher, until the desired consistency is reached.
Create salad: Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well, adding any extra ingredients you like.

Ways to serve:

On bread of choice
With your favorited crackers

The people behind the initiative

Giulia Manzolini

Project Manager CO2 Quantification

“I am part of the Sustainable Food Initiative because I passionately believe that a plant-based diet is not only improving your own health, but by helping the planet it will also improve the quality of everyone's life. That's why I want to enable people to make more conscious choices. Ready to join us in this yummy journey?”

Max Vögtli

Operational Excellence

“I am involved in this initiative due to one day truly realising the impact of food on our planet. I believe that being informed on what we eat and making choices based on that information is one of the biggest ways we can each make an individual contribution to fighting the climate crisis. Ready to do your part?”

Kaye Mathies

Intern CO2 Quantification

“I am part of the Sustainable Food Initiative because a plant-based diet is the perfect recipe for a more sustainable lifestyle – what else gets you to think about the environment three times a day?”

Meatless Monday: Ready for more?

Meatless Monday is a series which introduces healthy, sustainable, and – most importantly – delicious recipes to Bühler employees every week via B-World. Follow the Gen B page to keep up to date.

Generation B

Generation B (Gen B) stands for “Be the change”: Generation B is a global movement of passionate employees within Bühler. Every Bühler employee can be part of Gen B. The goal of Gen B is to build an attractive and diverse workplace with a culture of trust. Gen B wants to enable colleagues to take ownership of global problems through their initiatives for long-term change and thus wants to shape the future of our company.

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Sustainable and delicious

So, what do they suggest us to do?

How can we do it?

Tuna salad sandwich with a sustainable twist!

Chickpea Salad Sandwich