I bet you’ve already toured your house (or plan to tonight while brushing your teeth) to seek out triclosan in products. This week you can start to take steps to root it out…
…and hopefully you have mental power for one little thoughtful task.
Your mental mission this week is to become conscious of the food that you and your family throw out in the trash.
Keep a mental list of categories.
Don’t do anything with it yet. Seriously. Just take notice.
Next week I’ll give you some ideas on how to reduce what you feed your garbage can and enhance your cooking with some yummy recipes.
By the way, if you haven’t gotten around to reading my essay on Conscious Thought, please check it out. The peanut on the floor awaits you.
I don’t know exactly where you’re going with this, but … I have been forced to be overly conscious about what food I throw out in the trash, because here in Toronto, we have a compost bin as well as a recycling bin and the regular trash. The city only picks up trash every OTHER Friday, but compost and recycling EVERY Friday. I admit that many times, it is just easier to scrape the entire plate into the trash rather than separate the food/compostable from the non, but I promise to be more vigilant! (P.S. Garbage Disposals, or Garborators, as Canadians call them, are frowned upon and, in some communities, illegal).
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It will be fun to see what you do with this! I grew up in a house where food was never wasted so it is not too hard for me to handle this one. Refrigerator soup or refrigerator stir fry are primary recipients of leftovers that survive plain, old eating the next day for lunch. Leftover oatmeal or other cooked grains can go into breads or applesauce cake. Bread heels can be toasted for croutons or to make seasoned bread crumbs. Etc, etc…Chicken food and then composting for whatever is inedible…
I love your stuff!
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Katie Reply:
December 22nd, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Mona,
Welcome aboard! This is an old mission, so the Monday Mission that accompanies it is here: http://www.kitchenstewardship.com/2009/03/02/monday-mission-throw-away-less-food/
Thanks! Katie
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