I like the idea of a compost bench, but not the price tag.
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It’s always nice to hear about food waste from our friends down under. Then again…I think I disagree with
every opinion in this post, written by an American ex-pat living in Australia, on doggie bags (except the ridiculousness of U.S. portion sizes).
Really?? It’s “disgusting” to transfer your leftovers from plate to take-home container?
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In the last year, British quasi-governmental agency WRAP funded curbside food waste collection programs in 19 communities. They just released a report on the programs.
Overall, everything went well. Yet, in a sign of how hard it is to break habits, only 5 percent of participants said they think more about what food they purchase as a result of the food waste collection.
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In growing sustainable or “real” food, there are many hurdles, real and imagined. Here’s an interesting refutation of the barriers to real food…with waste discussed briefly.
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I just wish we’d have them over here! ell, In europe they don’t really give out that much food, so usually there is not so much left, but still, I’d like to take it home. You can ask for it in Chinese restaurants , here in France, but if you ask for it in other restaurants, aie! they’ll take you as some kind of begger….
But I paid for it, though, and they’ll just throw it away. I remember when I lived in the states for a while, how happy I was in the evening, to warm up my left ov meal from the restaurant, and its even tasted better, warmed up!
My heavens! If that blog writer is grossed out by hearing people taking their leftovers home, I can only imagine how often she is grossed out by other things!
I go out to eat VERY rarely, and when I do, I rarely manage to finish all my food. I take it home in a doggie bag and eat it for lunch the next day, with nary a health problem.
Esther, that’s too bad about the social derision of leftovers. I’m fascinated (and dismayed) by this phenomenon. Maybe that attitude is a throw back to the days before refrigerators. Or just a general looking down the nose towards frugality and pragmatism.
On the food safety concern with leftovers–I could understand if you go out to a movie after dinner, but really…is the food going to go “bad” while you have dessert? And if this were the case, wouldn’t half of all restaurant diners get sick every night?
I recognize that I’m a bit foolhardy with food at times. Tuesday, I ate two slices of pizza that my wife had mistakenly left out overnight–oops!–and am none the worse for it.
By that blogger’s logic, we shouldn’t put dinner on the table. We should dish out individual plates and then put the rest in the fridge immediately. Or maybe just throw the rest away…
So I did a little Googling today because someone asked me a question about N.W.A., and the first thing I thought of, oddly, was listening to MC Ren in Lodge 9.
Isn’t it amazing that the human race survived before there was refrigeration?