I’m getting packed up to move so been cleaning out my kitchen cubbords. I have a lot of food that is expired, but I would still consider it reasonably good. A lot of canned stuff and pasta-type things. I feel really bad just throwing it all away if it could possibly be used by anyone else. I know that the food banks probably have strict rules about what kind of food that they can take. Do you know if there is anywhere that I can take the food in Seattle, or should I just throw it all away?
Food waste is clearly a point that needs to be conveyed to the people at large in the USA and you have done just that!
I have a “compostor’ for yard waste to which I add foods scraps (veg peelings etc). The instruction advises against adding any “fats”. Leftover foods will be in this category.
However, I hear otherwise as I hear you on the NPR this afternoon….
Can you please clarify on this?
Thanks, Rashmi.
The deal with meats and fats is that you can compost them, but your compost pile needs to be generating quite a bit of heat to do so. Many backyard composting bins don’t get hot enough to process meats and fats, so the instructions will advise against them. You can try it and see how it goes–but if it doesn’t work well, these foods are likely to attract pests.
hey im lance and i wanted to know what i can do to help not have our school food thrown away. It sickens me to see hundredes of food thrown away while its perfectly good. Can anybody helpwith this probelm ???
Me and my fellow friend Lance go to the same school in standish, Michigan and have saw lots of food be thrown away in the past years. Our school provides breakfast and for that we are grateful for that but to see all the food untouched be thrown away, it just doesn’t see fair. People all around the country are starving because of no food to feed them, when we are wasteing food daily. We are local 7th graders and are asking politley for someone to help me figure our a solution to the problem in which needs to be solved.
Howdy Lance and Nolan,
I’m glad you wrote in and that you’re concerned about the problem. I’d love to throw a few ideas your way. Why don’t you email me at the email address above and we can chat.
Thanks much.
Someone should start a “Hold the Garnish” campaign. A significant amount of lettuce and citrus and other vegetables are used just to make food presentations look better. This food is almost never eaten. And often the garnish items come from area’s far away from where the food being sold.
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I’m getting packed up to move so been cleaning out my kitchen cubbords. I have a lot of food that is expired, but I would still consider it reasonably good. A lot of canned stuff and pasta-type things. I feel really bad just throwing it all away if it could possibly be used by anyone else. I know that the food banks probably have strict rules about what kind of food that they can take. Do you know if there is anywhere that I can take the food in Seattle, or should I just throw it all away?
Hmm…Have you considered eating it yourself?
You’ll have a hard time getting a food bank to take items past their best by date. But that doesn’t mean the food is bad. I just happened to come across this article: http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2011/11/12/how-unregulated-unscientific-use-labels-cause-food-waste
Food waste is clearly a point that needs to be conveyed to the people at large in the USA and you have done just that!
I have a “compostor’ for yard waste to which I add foods scraps (veg peelings etc). The instruction advises against adding any “fats”. Leftover foods will be in this category.
However, I hear otherwise as I hear you on the NPR this afternoon….
Can you please clarify on this?
Thanks, Rashmi.
The deal with meats and fats is that you can compost them, but your compost pile needs to be generating quite a bit of heat to do so. Many backyard composting bins don’t get hot enough to process meats and fats, so the instructions will advise against them. You can try it and see how it goes–but if it doesn’t work well, these foods are likely to attract pests.
hey im lance and i wanted to know what i can do to help not have our school food thrown away. It sickens me to see hundredes of food thrown away while its perfectly good. Can anybody helpwith this probelm ???
Me and my fellow friend Lance go to the same school in standish, Michigan and have saw lots of food be thrown away in the past years. Our school provides breakfast and for that we are grateful for that but to see all the food untouched be thrown away, it just doesn’t see fair. People all around the country are starving because of no food to feed them, when we are wasteing food daily. We are local 7th graders and are asking politley for someone to help me figure our a solution to the problem in which needs to be solved.
Howdy Lance and Nolan,
I’m glad you wrote in and that you’re concerned about the problem. I’d love to throw a few ideas your way. Why don’t you email me at the email address above and we can chat.
Thanks much.
Someone should start a “Hold the Garnish” campaign. A significant amount of lettuce and citrus and other vegetables are used just to make food presentations look better. This food is almost never eaten. And often the garnish items come from area’s far away from where the food being sold.