Comments on: Dish Wish: Don’t Fill It

by: What we aren’t eating matters too « Susan M | Yoga everything

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:54:47 +0000

[…] 3, 2008 · No Comments Here is a web site you MUST know about if you’re evolving your personal ecologyconsciousness. Falling into the Food Not Bombs category, Wasted Food is a mind blowing compilation about eating habits. To be precise, it’s about what we’re NOT eating, what we’re throwing away. […]

by: Ron

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:30:53 +0000

Excellent site, added to favorites!!

by: Danielle

Tue, 20 May 2008 20:50:33 +0000

In my household the food waste does not come from what goes on our plates being uneaten because we almost always clean our plates.

There is food waste in leftovers that to into the fridge but do not get eaten and produce that we purchase but do no eat before it goes bad. Also sometimes a cooking, canning or sausage making batch is bad and those are ruined as well. Also with our garden there is not always time to pick and process the items at the same time. In between the picking and the processing we lose some.

In the summer we compost fruits, vegetables and rinds but avoid anything with meat and butter in it.

by: Jonathan

Mon, 19 May 2008 13:14:38 +0000

Betsy, welcome aboard! I’ll look forward to hearing about the ~~Home Ec~~ Family and Consumer Science teaching is going. It’d be really interesting to hear what today’s kids think about food waste.

Great plan, Donna–today’s salad plates are the size of yesterday’s dinner plates. And I think you’re onto something with the appetizers. They’re always the best menu items, especially with Chinese food.

by: donna

Sun, 18 May 2008 15:44:55 +0000

We’ve eaten for years now at home on salad plates instead of dinner plates. When we go out to eat we can never finish a meal, and often order just appetizers….

by: Betsy

Sun, 18 May 2008 12:33:37 +0000

Thanks to the NY Times, I just discovered your blog. I am not a blog-reading person, but yours is great and I will continue to read it. Food waste and overconsumption is such an epidemic in this country. I’m a former magazine food editor studying to become a Family and Consumer Science teacher (a subject that use to be called home ec.), and food and its environmental impact are important issues to me. As an educator, I hope to bring these issues to middle schoolers to help them see that they can make a difference in their future.