How much food do we
actually eat compared to how much gets
thrown away a lot of food ends up in the
garbage instead of our bellies so get
ready because here are the top 10 food
waste facts that will blow your mind
root vegetables are getting tossed think
about all of the root vegetables you
throw out imagine faces on them watch
them cry and weep in the garbage or
compost because you were not able to
consume them thereby failing to help
them complete their food destiny oh the
calamity wait is that too dramatic are
we mourning root veggies too much
perhaps we are but that is just because
they are apparently one of the most
wasted foods how unfortunate for them
but who would have thought like it could
have been Tomatoes it could have been
milk it could have been bananas that
brown quickly and all the people who
don't know that you can use them to bake
end up just tossing them but nope it's
the root vegetables things like carrots
and turnips that gets thrown out the
most apparently I hate vegetables it is
hard to know for certain what has
actually thrown out the most especially
if we take into consideration that when
you throw things into the garbage you
are not documenting it and providing
some survey company with your answers
you do it in private and that's that yet
somehow it has come to light that root
vegetables are ending up trashed more
than the other things we consume to fix
this the number one thing to do with
your root vegetables is to just bake
them right up and all this other stuff
and you bake them or whatever you could
even roast them or barbeque them even
seasoned them however you like you may
find a new penchant for these little
suckers and then they won't end up in
the garbage after all if you're going to
waste it compost it compost is awesome
by composting the food we don't eat we
help to enrich soil which you can
totally use in your gardens if you are
lucky enough to have one composting is
also amazing because it reduces the
amount
of stuff that piles into landfills and
in turn it even helps to diminish the
amount of methane emitted from said
landfills compost is the eco and
relatively guilt-free way to deal with
food waste now the tricky thing is can
you compost finest smelling compost this
side of the Mississippi not all cities
are compost friendly which is a big
bummer if you do not have a compost bin
or a system set up in your borough then
look online maybe just maybe there is
something there for you
cities are getting their compost game on
slowly but surely so you never know what
will be coming to you shortly
compost is a great answer to the food
waste problem that is actually so easy
to do if there is a system in place to
support it
if you have your own wooded area with
soil then hey just do it yourself
finally compost just be sure not to
attract all of the animals you are not
dr. Dolittle you don't want all the
animals showing up at your door just
because you started composting or maybe
you do if you have a secret wish to be
like dr. Dolittle then hey no one can
stop you live your best life who let dr.
Dolittle in big refrigerators could be
to blame do you have a monster
refrigerator at home is it always full
of good stuff do you like to keep it
stocked if you do do you also notice
that on those days that you clean the
fridge you also have to throw things out
if you don't then you may deserve a
standing ovation or something because
the rumor is that people who own big
refrigerators end up throwing out more
food than those with smaller
refrigerators the size matters no this
simply has to do with the fact that
people actually forget what they bought
and therefore they do not eat it and it
spoils bigger may not be better in this
case when you think about food waste
that being said you could also just get
your head in the game and know what you
have right after all who is at fault the
big fridge or the person who owns the
big fridge this is your fault
now let's turn to all the small fridge
owners
you also forget stuff in your
refrigerators you shouldn't write but
maybe you do everyone can forget what
they have and that's just normal but it
is still good to be aware of this big
fridge and food waste rumor heck it is
good to know about it if you are a small
fridge owner basically we want to work
harder to keep in mind the food we have
on hand meal planning can reduce food
waste meal planning you may already be
doing this or you may know some person
who already does this you may have your
opinions or fears or concerns about it
you have desire to do it but you never
got the chance
wherever you fall on the topic what
matters is that meal planning seems to
be where it is at let's all get our
planners out and plan that sucker here's
the plan amigo meal planning is a
helpful way to reduce food waste because
you literally will only be buying things
from the grocery store that you need
this is a crazy effective way to help
your pocketbook and the amount with
which you waste food it's a win-win-win
so take out those cookbooks browse the
web pull up the Pinterest board get to
planning you may find you love it oh so
much and waste oh so less packaging food
can prolong its lifespan these days we
have been so anti plastic right like so
anti plastic that our brains explode and
our eyes pop out of our head if we see
let's say a cucumber wrapped in plastic
we think nope we will purchase the
cucumber not wrapped in plastic because
we want to do our part for the
environment one little gesture at a time
the thing is that you may forget about
that cucumber you may have a plan to eat
it in a few days you may be waiting for
the right moment then you go to get the
non plastic wrapped cucumber in your
fridge and it's already soft and
starting to rot so you throw it away you
can't wait food
cue the sad music please now there is a
theory that the cucumber that you left
behind because you were trying to save
the environment keeps longer than the
one that was not wrapped in plastic
further wasting that cucumber is worse
than not wasting the cucumber and
recycling the plastic get it so
basically what we need to be doing is
assessing which is worse food that is
wrapped there by propagating the use of
plastics or potentially wasting food
which is obviously bad there is no right
answer here but it is something to think
about
healthier diets can lead to more food
waste if you eat a lot of fresh produce
then you know that it does not last
forever the more fresh food you buy the
more likely you are to have to throw
things out just because you bought fresh
food and that's the way it goes but
maybe that is OK fresh food is so good
for you
eating what is in season rocks it is
what we should all be doing isn't it Ron
would you like some salad since I am NOT
a rabbit no I do not we cannot all
survive on canned spinach like Popeye
though that really would be great
because surely we would have very little
food waste in that case canned food is
where it's at when we think about
wanting to reduce food waste like the
food in cans lasts for a long time but
we may not always want canned food
shucks if only we could be like Popeye
at the end of the day we may have to
accept that being healthy eaters comes
at some kind of a cost we can't all be
saved we can do our best to eat what we
purchase
not purchase too much but if something
goes bad then compost it not much you
can do about rotten food food waste in
the US is on the rise so apparently food
waste in America is up by 50 percent
since the 1980s that's wild
this is not all of the consumers fault
either well don't blame me companies
seem to be churning out more food than
consumers can handle then consumers over
buy and then they also end up throwing
things away and it is a vicious cycle
some people have come up with great
plans to reduce their own food waste and
you can do it too if you want some
people stick their grocery bill to the
fridge and then cross out what they
consume this way you do not only see how
much food you end up throwing away but
how much money to talk about finding a
way to save farms waste too when we
think about food waste sometimes we
think about our own habits or even the
habits of the grocery stores we buy from
or the restaurants we eat at but rarely
do we think about the local farms
Farms are lovely places we enjoy going
to the markets and buying food locally
we enjoy the quality the farms provide
us with and usually the lack of
pesticides on the products that being
said many farms have tons of food waste
just like the rest of us farmers are not
always able to sell all of their food at
markets furthermore when they sell to
big grocery chains who then resell the
food to you sometimes their products are
not up to muster and the grocery stores
turned them down reject reject what how
can that be
well it's true if a crop is not up to
par with the quality of food the grocery
store holds itself too then it will not
buy the food from the farmer and the
farmer is stuck with a whole crop of
food that they have to use up in some
way or just get rid of so basically we
are all in it together one big team
battling this food waste problem no one
is excluded Farms waste - even though
they try not to they're just like gas
expiration dates are mostly scams an
expiration date is not the be-all
end-all of information on the food you
have purchased oftentimes we throw out
food that is still perfectly fine for
consumption and that is all because of
the silly date stamped on the container
or carton no no no it's just a date we
throw food away because we trust in the
best before dates we trust them because
somehow we think a grocery store would
never lie to us right well they may not
be actually lying they may be covering
up their little butts from being sued
for saying a product was good when it
could have potentially gone bad and they
could also be trying to get you to throw
out a product so you'll come in and buy
more they are not lying with these
expiration dates they are just not
giving you all of the information it is
also on us somehow for assuming these
dates were written in stone when they
simply aren't the expiration dates may
be a good guide a helpful nod to what we
could pay attention to however they are
not absolute use your judgement you've
got this you know when something
deserves to stay and something deserves
to go you're gonna go that's what you're
gonna do we don't need a silly haphazard
stamp or label to tell you otherwise
stand your ground and judge judge that
food judge it like Judge Judy would want
you to don't let the stores always do
that judging for you we waste so much
fresh water we are all culpable of using
too much water now this does not mean
you should not have had that second
glass of water at dinner or that you
should not have used water to wash your
face before bed what it means is that we
let the water run when it doesn't need
to be come on the water is not Forrest
Gump
we don't want the water to run water run
we want to save it and use it when we
need it just because we have what seems
to be a limitless amount of water in
North
does not mean we do I don't want any
water there are some super easy ways to
reduce the amount of water that you
waste and they are really not that hard
to get right like don't let the shower
run for 10 minutes before getting in it
or don't let the water run when you are
doing the dishes and whatever you do
just please turn off the tap when you
brush your teeth if you think about it
this is all easy you could ace this test
that is if you were being tested and a
score was being tallied and this world
was like the one they show in the good
place so hey try to earn some points and
turn off your taps when you don't need
the water who cares no one's watching
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