Are You Gonna Eat That?

Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study — and it happens at the supermarket, in restaurants and cafeterias and in your very own kitchen.
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The problem  isn’t unique to the United States.

In England, a recent study revealed that Britons toss away a third of the food they purchase, including more than four million whole apples, 1.2 million sausages and 2.8 million tomatoes. In Sweden, families with small children threw out about a quarter of the food they bought, a recent study there found.
— New York Times

As a member of the Clean Plate Club and the Great Auckland Post-Humeric Compost Society, my motto is, if it doesn't stink, it won't hurt you. And if it does, compost it.

Comments

[serns]

My lunch group spent a good part of a lunch hour discussing which end is best for opening a banana, stem end or other end. Middle is also an option, esp if it's not too ripe (that was discovered in post-lunch research). You kind of snap it apart, for that, starting with (I forget which) a frown face or smiley face.