Tweeting Your Way to Local and Organic Food in LA

With the absurd amount of taco trucks, Los Angeles has created its own mobile food industry. Offering cheap food almost anywhere, taco trucks have served our late night munchies well. Recently, with customers following the Koji Korean BBQ truck like groupies on twitter crack, a new market of alternative mobile food is being created. Along with this increase in alternative taco trucks, there has also been the introduction of sustainable mobile food providers through out the greater Los Angeles area. These eateries are making me wonder, should we tweet to our next free range beef burrito?

Let’s take a look at the sustainable food trucks showing up around LA:


Let’s Be Frank: It’s goal: to change the world one hot dog at a time. It’s method: Selling only locally raised grass fed beef hot dogs and sausages. Follow Let’s Be Frank on twitter @letsbefrank

Green Truck on the Go: Serves organic/local food, uses compostable to go plates/cups/utensils and uses vegetable oil as fuel. These Green trucks have been showing up in New York and Los Angeles. Follow Green Truck at @green truck

Border Grill: Brought to you by the founders of Sustainable eatery Border Grill and Ciudad, this taco truck serves sustainable Mexican cuisine. follow them on the twitter @bordergrill.

Cool Haus: Can’t hear the music of the ice cream truck? Look no farther! Cool Haus offers handmade ice cream sandwiches with locally and organically sourced ingredients. Follow Cool Haus @COOLHAUS

Sprinkles Mobile: Your favorite cupcake is on the go and green friendly! The mobile truck offers Sprinkles’ famous cupcakes with packaging and wrappers made from recyclable material and donates leftovers to food banks each day. twitter @ http://twitter.com/sprinklesmobile.

Divine Nourishment: Committed to minimizing use of plastic bags and prepackaged foods, using all organic ingredients, buying local produce and using biodiesel to fuel the vehicles, this truck provides tasty and sustainable food on the go. twitter @organicgoodness

Are these trucks truly sustainable as they drive around Los Angeles selling to an upper class taco truck customer? Some use bio fuel while others simply commit to reducing waste, but all of these trucks are spreading the word about the importance of sustainable food practices and representing the growing demand for healthy food choices in Los Angeles. Though these gourmet trucks may in the future compete with current taco trucks for customers, it seems more likely that a new market of mobile food is about to develop with the inclusion of sustainable eateries. Will we see Leo’s offer a free range chicken quesadilla in the future? Only time will tell. Until then, tweet your heart out and enjoy some environmentally friendly food on the go.