Friday Buffet

By Jonathan | Published: August 15, 2008

Chairman Colonel. photo by Squeaky Marmot (via Creative Commons)Gotta love this well-executed leftovers humor, courtesy of The Onion.

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Welcome news: Due to rising food prices, 62 percent of shoppers at the British chain Sainsbury’s are concerned about wasted food. Even more heartening, about 1/3 of those polled report that they’re doing something about it–by making food stretch over a couple of meals.

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Converted Organics is a Boston-based company that uses microbial (aerobic) digestion to turn food waste into compost it sells. Here’s an interesting interview with their CEO, Ed Gildea.

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Here’s an editorial celebrating the composting success in my neck of the woods and pushing for an expansion into Winston-Salem.

— —photo by Sparky Leigh (via Creative Commons)

Finally, I’m going camping this weekend, so I couldn’t resist passing this along: Proper disposal of food waste is vital for avoiding bears.

(Any article that rhymes ‘bear’ with ‘derrière’ gets my nod of approval.)

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5 Comments

  1. Kristen
    Posted August 15, 2008 at 2:01 pm | Permalink

    LOL at The Onion. For far too long, my fridge has looked like that. I’m happy to report that it’s been in much better shape of late, and I’m going to post about it on my blog shortly.

  2. Jonathan
    Posted August 15, 2008 at 2:04 pm | Permalink

    Glad to hear your fridge is improving. Send over a link, I’d love to see the results.

  3. shorty
    Posted August 15, 2008 at 4:01 pm | Permalink

    Ditty on the Onion article…i shudder when my fridge gets too full…i start to wonder which food will be the next “victim”…

  4. Kristen
    Posted August 16, 2008 at 12:31 pm | Permalink

    Will do…gotta freeze my big packs of chicken leg quarters first, or my picture is not going to be very impressive! lol

  5. Katy Wolk-Stanley
    Posted August 17, 2008 at 12:47 pm | Permalink

    I too got a chuckle from the KFC bucket dilemma. I do have fond childhood memories of chicken from a bucket.

    I’ve issued a “Buy No Food Challenge” for the readers of “The Non-Consumer Advocate.”

    My fridge is way too full, so we’ll see how long I can eat from what I already have.

    -Katy Wolk-Stanley
    “Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”

    http://thenonconsumeradvocate.wordpress.com