Every week, I post a picture of the food that has gone bad over the last seven days. Why do I do this? Because in March of 2008, I finally got fed up with the amount of food I was wasting, and I thought that showing my waste to other people would motivate me to use up my food instead of wasting it. Because this often embarrassing practice was so helpful for me, I invited other bloggers to join me in posting their food waste photos, and Food Waste Friday was born.
I often cut oranges up into slices or wedges for us to eat along with our meals, and sometimes, we have a few left over. I meant to throw these into the juicer the next time I made juice, but I waited just a wee bit too long.
So, now they’re turning into dirt in my compost bin.
I do have some cilantro in my fridge that needs to be used ASAP, so I’d better apply some of my own how-to-use-up-cilantro ideas.
Hey, speaking of food waste, Jonathan Bloom just wrote a great article about why it’s particularly important not to waste meat. Go read it!
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Kathy Mitro
Thursday 19th of April 2012
MANDATORY FOOD DONATION LAWS
One in 7 people in the United States are hungry each day.
Hunger is defined as the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food and the exhausted condition that goes with it.
In 1997 The Department of Agriculture estimated that 96.4 billion pounds of the 356 billion pounds of edible food produced was never eaten.
Since 1997 the number of billions of pounds of thrown away food has climbed even higher.
This food is put into landfills where it decomposes producing methane gas, a major source of greenhouse gases.
We can totally eradicate hunger in the United States by redirecting this food into a hungry mouth instead.
A person totally impoverished is a person in crisis.
Humanitarian societies take care of people in crisis regardless of how that crisis came about.
We must feed our impoverished citizens.
We can feed them at no cost.
We must pass laws that mandate edible food be donated to share with the hungry.
This is recycling at it's best.
We have now eradicated hunger and we have saved our environment.
Help us pass these laws.
Petition at Change.org please sign it.
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-president-of-the-united-states-require-all-food-establishments-to-do-food-rescue-each-day
Kathy Mitro kathymitro@yahoo.com
Angela Warren
Saturday 3rd of March 2012
No Waste this week. We saved some grapes that could have been food waste by freezing and eating them. :)
Jen
Saturday 3rd of March 2012
Late getting around to the cleanout today--a couple of cups of an Indonesian rice dish I made last weekend (was planning to have it for dinner tonight but it smelled baaaadddd!) and about a cup of eggplant spread. In my quest away from animal protein and toward a plant-based biet, I tried making eggplant spread to use for lunches. Guess I should have followed a recipe 'cause it was nasty. Ate about half and then gave up. I have some parsely and lettuce on the verge of being compost but still hoping to save them!
Linda
Friday 2nd of March 2012
I had no waste this week but I bought a lot of produce and I'll have to be very mindful of it so I don't loose any.
accountingsofamy
Friday 2nd of March 2012
I'm pretty happy with my food waste since it's only my 2nd week keeping track but your picture reminds me that I have a bunch of clementines I better eat up this week.