More fallout from Monday’s topic of energy lost in food waste. In her Discover blog, Sheril Kirshenbaum asks ‘how do we change attitudes and behavior on waste?’ Well, I hope it starts with a book.

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Not that you’d ever think of wasting peanut butter, but just in case…here are 10 other uses for it.
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Nutritionists [...]

Huge news from Arkansas–Walmart just announced it would donate a whopping $2 billion in food and cash to help the hungry.
That total includes $1.75 billion of in-kind food donations that presumably are slightly blemished items and foods nearing or at their sell-by date.
Given the retailer’s size–4,300 U.S. outlets (including Sam’s Clubs)–when Walmart acts, it’s on [...]

I just heard a figure on NPR that blew my mind–roughly 80 percent of Haiti’s GDP is foreign aid. And that was before the quake. If there was ever a place that really didn’t need a natural disaster, Haiti is it.
After combing through my archives, I found a few examples of Haitian misery–again, before yesterday’s major earthquake. [...]

In the Credit Where Credit Is Due department: kudos to Subaru of America for their automotive donation to the Food Bank of South Jersey (FBSJ). The Pennsauken-based food distribution agency will use the 2009 Tribeca to make smaller deliveries that don’t require a truck.
And that’s not all the Cherry Hill, N.J.-based car maker is doing. [...]

This past Friday, the CBS Evening News ran a piece about food recovery. Those of you who know what food recovery/rescue is, won’t be enthralled, but it’s neat nonetheless to see a network tackle the issue. (Yes, even though networks’ allure has declined a bit in recent years.)

I was happy to see Hidden Harvest get [...]

It’s not new, but I enjoyed this whimsical little video that I unearthed while doing some research. In the same vein as Replate, FoodBox was conceived by some Parsons students as a way to get our leftovers to the hungry. Empathy and idealism over health regulations. Behold:

I get a kick out of the tin foil [...]

I’ve written about vacation rental food waste recovery (mouthful!) before, but here’s a recent news report on it (with video). This is one of my favorite ideas, as it allows families who’ve rented homes for a beach getaway to donate their vacation groceries before they leave town.
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Atta boy, Texas!
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From a review of Grandma’s Country Pies and [...]

Here’s an interesting piece on waste in the National School Lunch Program. I’ve discussed school food waste before, but I find all stories on the topic fascinating.
The attention grabber is that tax payer dollars are being thrown out. Does that make it worse than when kids throw out their parents’ (also tax payers) money by tossing their veggies and [...]

Starting last week, Binghamton has a new, ahem, venue for preparing and serving free lunches: a dumpster.
No, it’s doesn’t involve dumpster diving. Nor does it even resemble a dumpster. To be more descriptive, it’s a converted, nicely-appointed dumpster with recycled kitchen equipment. Waste Management cleaned up the bin (it was apparently sitting unused) and installed the used cooking gear.
Every Friday this summer, [...]

…Sold!
I didn’t know that food auctions existed before reading this line in Barbara Ehrenreich’s recent op-ed:
The rural poor are turning increasingly to “food auctions,” which offer items that may be past their sell-by dates.
Auctions sell food from supermarket chains’ warehouses, some of which may have damaged packaging or old dates. Yet, those running the auctions all claim that the [...]