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I just caught the tail-end of this story on the TODAY show:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/weekinreview/18martin.html?partner=rssnyt
I know I am preaching to the choir here, but goodness, the amount of food the average family wastes is appalling. We always eat our leftovers - it helps to have my DH around (I call him my human garbage disposal, LOL). Now, occasionally, things go bad, and I have to throw them out, but we really try to avoid this. I just feel it is awful to waste all of the energy that went into making that food.
I worked at an environmental camp one summer where after every meal they scraped what was left on the plates onto a scale. When we got down to under one pound there was a big celebration (the camp had around 100 kids or so). It was a great lesson to teach young minds.
We have friends who absolutely won't eat leftovers. When we are at their parties it pains me to watch them dump perfectly good food into the trash!
Gee - guess I better freeze up those bananas that are going brown...DH is out of town!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/weekinreview/18martin.html?partner=rssnyt
I know I am preaching to the choir here, but goodness, the amount of food the average family wastes is appalling. We always eat our leftovers - it helps to have my DH around (I call him my human garbage disposal, LOL). Now, occasionally, things go bad, and I have to throw them out, but we really try to avoid this. I just feel it is awful to waste all of the energy that went into making that food.
I worked at an environmental camp one summer where after every meal they scraped what was left on the plates onto a scale. When we got down to under one pound there was a big celebration (the camp had around 100 kids or so). It was a great lesson to teach young minds.
We have friends who absolutely won't eat leftovers. When we are at their parties it pains me to watch them dump perfectly good food into the trash!
Gee - guess I better freeze up those bananas that are going brown...DH is out of town!