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# How to get started in cooking (healthier): After a meal
- URL: https://tomiescuisine.co.uk/getting-started-cooking-after-meal/
- Published: 2022-04-10T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-10T10:00:02.000Z
- Description: We continue on our getting started series! This time it’s about our daily habits after a meal. Remember, it’s the little things that make a big difference. So, here are 4 of our daily habits to reduce food waste, save water, digest better and relax – the most important one after a long day 😊.
- Author: Hitomi
- Tags: Getting started, Eco-friendly Tips, #post-card-sand

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### Healthier desserts for ordinary days

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/11/df/11dfbd1c-fe62-41b4-867f-0cd991a08e6e/content/images/2022/04/creme-dessert-coco-in-a-icecream-cup-1.jpg)

For dessert, my husband eats yoghurt with dried fruits and berries. I usually go for dark chocolates or seasonal fruit. During winter it’s mostly clementines. Sometimes we have some special dessert depending on my latest “experiment”.

### To help our digestion: Tea

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/11/df/11dfbd1c-fe62-41b4-867f-0cd991a08e6e/content/images/2022/04/tea-and-tea-leaves-1.jpg)

After eating, we have hot drinks for lunch — mostly coffee. For dinner, we drink various teas, such as Japanese green tea, hojicha (roasted green tea), mint tea, rooibos, and some herb teas. We choose whatever we feel like that evening. The only hard rule is when we wake up early the next day, we avoid tea that contains caffeine.

### Reduce water usage by using the dishwasher

![We are keeping them in a jar. It's really handy.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/11/df/11dfbd1c-fe62-41b4-867f-0cd991a08e6e/content/images/2022/04/smol-dishwasher-tablets-1.jpg)

We are keeping them in a jar. It's really handy.

For the washing up, we try to fit (within reason) as much as we can in our dishwasher and wash wooden or fragile utensils by hand. As we [talked about in our previous post](https://tomiescuisine.co.uk/featured/smol-laundry-detergent-review/), we use Smol’s dishwasher tablets and laundry detergent. We remove the grease left on the pan with old newspapers and put it in the general bin.

I have some other dishwashing products that I want to introduce, so I’ll write about these in a different blog post.

[You can read more about dishwasher water usage here.](https://www.which.co.uk/news/2020/09/which-research-reveals-how-little-water-dishwashers-use-compared-to-hand-washing/?ref=tomiescuisine.co.uk)

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### Compost in our garden

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/11/df/11dfbd1c-fe62-41b4-867f-0cd991a08e6e/content/images/2022/04/compost-bin-in-the-garden-1.jpg)

When my mother visited us, she built a compost in our garden. Now we can put food scraps to produce good soil for our garden, and further reduce our food waste. Whatever we can’t put in our home compost — such as bones — goes into the food waste bin. Since we have this compost, we have much less waste in our food waste bin. I will write about our compost in a different article one day. :-)

## Closing words

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