Reduce your family's food waste
Don't throw your food (or your money) in the trash.
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Thank you for pointing out that we can all be very wasteful and that we can all improve our habits!
But your recommendation to feed bread to birds is way off. First, moldy, spoiled food isn't healthy for anyone. Why risk making anyone sick? Don't feed it to birds or squirrels or kids or dogs or yourself. Compost it! (If you have a lot of very smelly moldy food, you might have to throw it out rather than transform the earthy smell of compost into a pungent pile of yuck.
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This is a fantastic list of suggestions and I'm happy to say that I already do them, but it never hurts to have a refresher course. I was brought up by budget conscious parents whose eyes would pop out of their skulls if my sister and I ever dared to throw something away...that was way before being "green" was a concept. Today, I'm an active member of a green social network and do everything in my power to make the resources I'm fortunate enough to have last as long as possible. Still, I.... More
I brought this up in a post I did at HealthyChild.org and here was the startling statistic I found:
"According to the US Health Department, approximately 25% of food in the US is thrown away - 96.4 billion pounds of food a year. That's about one pound of food, per citizen, per day that ends up lining the trash bins. And that's a study from 1995; many believe the number has perhaps doubled by now. Take only what you'll eat and use your leftovers (try LeftOverChef.com for recipe.... More
