waste less food

This should be relatively easy to do, as the main reason that food gets wasted in our house is because one of us decides we can’t be bothered to cook, and we end up having a take-out instead. As we’re not having another take-out this year, that should mean that we waste less food. Therefore my aim is not to waste any food for the rest of this year.

This weekend I got so excited at the thought of cooking my own meals that I spent way too much money on groceries, and when Monday came around and I was at school all day for 3 days, I wasn’t home to eat the food and it’s starting to go bad. Note to self: When shopping, only shop for 2 days!

I vouch to waste less food. Mike always moans every week at how much fridge food we throw away each week.

We don’t eat a massive amount of fresh food as it wastes, but I often throw away the salad draws, milk and fruit.

I’m getting a little better. I don’t buy as much food anymore, and when I shop, I try to think realistically about when I’ll eat it, and try to eat things that will go bad sooner first. At times, though, I won’t “feel like” eating what’s in the fridge and prepare something else, then the fridge stuff does go bad. Need to work on that.

I don’t think I buy too much food, but sometimes I find it very hard to eat anything, the food goes bad, I have to throw it out.. blah blah.

Right now there’s just a cucumber, couple of long drinks and one beer in our fridge. I plan to keep the fridge fairly empty, that way I won’t waste that much food, right?

Pack your lunch! Every day! No reason to have good food sitting at home getting bad while you spend more money on lunch out! Tsk tsk…

It breaks my heart when I don’t eat something soon enough and it goes bad, so I have to throw it out. I need to work on making more shopping trips for less food (if I want it to be fresh, anyway). There really is no need to make big shopping trips like my parents used to do back in the day because there is only one of me, and grocery stores are conveniently right on the way home.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/08/food.ethicalliving

• Shop daily for perishables
• Meal-plan for the week
• Grow your own herbs and salad
• Know how much a portion is so you don’t overcook
• Bulk-cook meals (e.g. cook tomato sauce and stock and freeze them in old plastic milk cartons)
• Use left-overs in packed lunches
• Bake your own bread

Plugs for:
http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/ (lots of advice)
http://www.4theegg.com/ (to keep your veg fresher longer)

‘Stop wasting food’, urges Brown
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7492573.stm

Half a can of garbanzos, some green onions and a couple odd mushrooms and broccoli bits that I was saving for I have no idea what.

I’m trying to get out of that hoarding mentality and use things up, especially things that go bad. No use saving fresh produce for a rainy day, its meant to be eaten.