Food waste

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  • tsmom1128
    tsmom1128 Posts: 151 Member

    If I am overindulging at a restaurant, i wont want the same meal again before it goes bad so I might as well let the restaurant discard. I also rarely eat leftovers so I attempt to only cook the portion size we will consume at that sitting.
    i see what youre saying, though i dont necessarily agree with it. i grew up eating leftovers from the night before for lunch pretty much every day so its kind of second nature to me

    Nothing goes unused! Still do this today, and so don't my kids.
  • emmanap91
    emmanap91 Posts: 300 Member
    Bf and I each got 10 wings at the pub last night. I ate 6 of mine, he ate 8 of his.

    Now we have 6 wings in the fridge for him to eat for dinner tonight. I'll also cut up some vegetables for both of us and have some tuna or eggs for myself.

    I love having the other half of my meal from a restaurant the next day, and if I'm worried it's too many calories for a second meal in as many days or if I just don't want it the next day, my boyfriend will gladly eat it. He will eat anything, plus he isn't counting calories.

    EDIT: typo
  • cheripugh1
    cheripugh1 Posts: 357 Member
    A 1/3 of the way down I knew you were a student and this is a nice report. I bet you could get at least a 90 on it! We are all here because of what we eat or don't eat, most to lose wt. from overeating... you start out with when you start your diet... HELLO we bought that stuff before the journey and it is old evils, so yes donate what can be, give away what someone wants and throw the rest away...

    TRUST me it costs MUCH more to address the health issues of an obese person that what is thrown away in food. I do my best to use what I don't eat but some things just go in the garbage, lets face it does it really matter if I put it in the garbage or in my toilet after saving a great deal on my body which is killing me? IF I leave it in the store, then no sale, which means no support for those putting it together in the first place. So I bought it, I have done my part to support others what I do with it after that point is my choice!
  • amblight
    amblight Posts: 350 Member
    OP, could you cite your source for the "40% food waste"?

    If accurate it's shocking!

    http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-ip.pdf

    And many more - 40% is about what it is in all industrilized countries.
  • amblight
    amblight Posts: 350 Member
    I'm rather appaled that some of you think it's the choice between obesity and wasting food, when in fact there seems to be the oppesite correlation.

    Both of these problems are caused by oversupply of 'fast/easy/cheap' (even though both problems are expensive), and not planning/thinking your food choices through.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member

    And lastly, give away food! I'm a student, so I can always find other people at college who appriciate any sort of ingredient. You can also give to homeless shelters. Or, cook something that is easy to give away - I've just made cookies out of some ingredients I needed to rid from the kitchen, and they are very easy to get people to eat for me :)

    What do YOU do to prevent food waste? :)

    Totally this!^

    Now that school is out food pantries across the U.S. have much higher demand. Kids who were getting free lunches now eat at home.
  • amywise10
    amywise10 Posts: 33 Member
    We bought a large composter from Lowe's for around $30, which we keep in our backyard. Any plant food scraps are put in the composter to be used later for a vegetable garden. Not much else gets wasted.
  • BigT555
    BigT555 Posts: 2,067 Member
    I'm rather appaled that some of you think it's the choice between obesity and wasting food, when in fact there seems to be the oppesite correlation.

    Both of these problems are caused by oversupply of 'fast/easy/cheap' (even though both problems are expensive), and not planning/thinking your food choices through.
    agreed.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    What do YOU do to prevent food waste? :)

    Grow as much of my own as possible, so less farm to table waste. Compost kitchen and garden waste, so what is "wasted" gets used for next seasons crops.

    Oh, and I have leftovers for lunch almost everyday. But, honestly, it's more because it's the easiest and tastiest option, more than any thought of waste.

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