Green your Thanksgiving

Some of the Turkey lovers may suggest of having a green theme and dressing the Turkey with lettuce or spinach but not giving up on the delicious Turkey at all. After all it’s a day of celebration. And how can you kick away the winter blues without a treat of Turkey! Still there will be so many ways with which you can set into the green theme.

Americans cook and Eat more than 45 million turkeys on Thanksgiving. This Thanksgiving, have mercy on Turkey!

• Vegetarians and Vegans can just stick to being so. They can invite friends and family over a nice Vegetarian meal. Alternately they can choose to carry their own Vegetarian platter with a little extra for others to dig in the party. Who knows some point in time their taste buds want to really switch.
• One can go lean on Turkey by not making it as the main course and have other sumptuous Vegetarian options.
• If you are the host, do a head count to make optimal amount of meal. Lots of Cooking will consume or gas or electricity and Food can also go waste.
• Going organic is one way of buying less (as it would be expensive) and also being human to turkey farms.
• For decoration, put simplicity at its best while give your Consumer soul some rest. Keep the Turkey significance alive and just use it symbolically in your decorations. What could be the best craft assignment on a holiday for your kids or friends by drawing or making Turkey from pieces of waste papers! Alternately clay or even your common flour dough can be fun to mould.
• Did you hear about the bio-diesel fuel produced from Turkey fat! If not, just check out with the people in Plano Texas who donated it to the Bio-diesel plants in Texas.
  
• How about some candle light dinner while you can switch off some lights in the house.
• Invite neighbors or visit them. Share rides if going for long distance.
• For a small get together, washing dishes after the meals shall not be a problem. Your family or friends may also help you doing the dishes if you decide to do them manually. You save energy and water many times if you skip the dishwasher.
• Just in case if you are thinking of using disposables, you can do away with using convenient plastics and paper. Instead you can go for organic biodegradable plates.
• Suggest use of hand wash and hand towels instead of paper napkins.
• Do not forget to thank your Mother Nature this Thanksgiving and do whatever bit you can do to Conserve resources and minimize carbon footprints.