Mushroom Basil Marinara

Recipe Type: Large Recipe (see Recipes Page)

This recipe is a Zero Waste reinvention of the Basil Marinara Pasta Sauce recipe previously posted on this site. If you don’t want to invest two hours into the prep and cooking for this recipe, see the original recipe – plus mushrooms – to replicate, though I promise you this one is amazing!

A Perspective on the 5 R’s

The Refuse, Reuse and Rot steps of zero waste are actually pretty easy to take on and implement in your home early on in your zero waste venture:

• Refuse is a mindset that can start instantly (rejecting plastic grocery bags, receipts, avoid unnecessary printing at work, etc.);
• Reuse comes easily just with buying a few things to get you started and going from there (reusable grocery bags, lunch bags, food storage, etc.);
• Rot only requires that you buy the essentials for compost and just get started (post coming soon with details – but we do Bokashi composting).

An Effort to Minimize and Eliminate

It really is true that we hold on to things we don’t use, and I recommend using this observation as a starting point for your zero waste endeavor.

Dan has been bugging me for as long as we’ve lived together to get rid of stuff. His motivations are having less to move every time we find a new apartment (our current is our 4th in three years), but I had always seen it that we were buying the ‘essentials’ rather than adding more junk to the mix.