One Meal a Day (OMAD) Community Challenge

One Meal A Day (OMAD) Community Challenge has begun along the Wasatch Back! This initiative stems from a movement founded by Suzy Amis Cameron, OMD for the Planet. EATS takes Suzy’s work further by factoring in the effects composting and food waste have as well as supporting local producers which furthers the climate benefits. 

Making just one daily meal plant-based can have both tangible and far-reaching effects: 

• The greenhouse gas impact of a single 8 oz glass of milk is the same as driving 1.2 miles. Changing the milk in a bowl of cereal to plant-based milk would save the CO₂ equivalent of 329 miles of driving. 
  • Factoring in that milk is still encouraged by the American Academy of Pediatrics if 5,000 children in Summit County make this swap, this amounts to the CO₂ equivalent of driving at least 1,645,000 miles a year or 904 metric tons of CO₂!
• If a mere 50 families along the Wasatch Back replace one meal a week from chicken to brown lentils, for example, our community will save 4.67 metric tons of CO₂ annually. If 100 families took this challenge those savings would be 9.34 metric tons of CO₂.
• By choosing to purchase fewer animal products and eat more plant-based meals, lots of packaging is cut out of your shopping cart. Think about purchasing a shopping cart full of produce vs a shopping cart full of milk, yogurt, meat, and eggs. Imagine what a difference it could make if most of the food we consumed and the byproducts of it could be composted instead of thrown away. 

OMAD Community Survey

If you’re able, please take a couple of minutes to fill out our One Meal a Day Community Challenge Survey, which measures food consumption and disposal habits along the Wasatch Back. The survey is 100% anonymous and the data will be used to help EATS Park City better serve our community. As an expression of our thanks, you may enter a drawing for a $25 gift card to a local restaurant at the end of the survey. Thank you from all of us at EATS!

Take the OMAD Community Challenge

The OMAD Community Challenge is open to every member of our community! Here’s how you can participate: 

• Join us for a free cooking class or a webinar!
  • Learn to Make Pirohy with Lenka
  • Plant-Based Eating Webinar
• Read EATS’ email newsletter.
  • Register here to receive EATS newsletters straight to your email!
• Find three new plant-based recipes A DAY on EATS’ recipe page.
• Attend a participating local restaurant to try their plant-based goodies:
  • five5eeds
  • Twisted Fern