Don't Waste Food, 457°

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Do your best to plan meals, and not let food go to waste. It has taken significant amounts of energy to grow & produce the food that we eat from farming, to transportation, to processing, and cooking, and refrigeration. It is important that we think of our meals & the food in our fridge as energy.

13 comments about this action

Alison Kroulek

Now that I'm working from home, hopefully I'll stop buying food to cook and being too tired to cook it!

in June

Jeremy Williams

In the UK we throw away a third of the food we buy, which is crazy for so many reasons - landfill, rising food prices, and carbon emissions can all be mitigated by throwing away less food!

in June

Dnyanesh G.

This is easy to do

in June

Charles M.

If you can, get chickens. They convert scraps into eggs.

last month

Patricia T.

We freeze "free flow" so that we only defrost what we need. Scraps go to the dog or to the chickens.

last month

Vinod Kumar Kashyap

yeh!! Dont waste
If you have extra food give it to some road side children

last month

Dean D.

Add to your compost!

last month

Dean D.

Add to your compost!

last month

Lisa S.

Any food scraps end up feeding the tiger worms, which produce the wonderful vermicast that my veggies love to grow in !

last month

Jenny R.

Since I've started planning our meals for the week ahead, we don't have any fruit and veges left over that have gone off and have to be thrown out by the end of the week. I look at each recipe and only add the exact amount to the shopping list, e.g. 3 carrots, whereas before I would buy a whole bag. It's saved both money and wasted food.

this month

Binary Blonde

Leftovers are delish for lunch the next day! And anything that you need to throw out is perfect for a compost heap.

this month

Matthew W.

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Marcel Dubois

I regard the sell by date as a guideline and test the food before I decide what to do, if spoilt, there is no choice but most of the time it's still good. I think it's more a liability issue for manufacturers.
Secondly, especially with meat products (I am sorry to say that I just like meat) but also with fruit and vegetables, I waste not because I think the animal didn't die for me to throw it's proteins away. Every bit should go to use to complete the circle.

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