Comments on: Mental Mission: Food Waste

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:48:20 +0000

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

By: Mona S Casselman

Mona S Casselman — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:07:52 +0000

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!

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:50:45 +0000

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).