Using the cooking bag is a resource efficient and environmental friendly way of cooking your food.

For example, boiling a pot of rice for 3 minutes and then placing it in a cooking bag for several hours conserves the heat of the pot and cooks the rice! This is a method of cooking aims to reduce the use of resources like firewood and charcoal, the most common fuel used for cooking in Uganda. Other foods like beans, … , ... , etc, can be cooked in a cooking bag.

JaJa Fact: Cooking bags help Ugandan grannies cook with reduced expenses on resources like firewood and charcoal. The saved money is used to pay for education and healthcare.