“Fight Food Waste!”
I love this vintage poster, especially because of the importance of the message!
Dorothy at The New Vintage Kitchen will be sharing great stories about how to reduce food waste, with some great tips and recipes. As she wrote:
“Once a month, we’re going to look at ways to help reduce food waste and keep our planet happier and healthier by using all those scraps that often end up in landfills and contribute to our ever-growing environmental problems. The worldwide statistics are sobering, over a third of everything we produce is tossed out, over a billion tons of edible food, which impacts our environment, our economics, and certainly our health. But we’ve rolled up our sleeves in the past to save these resources, and now’s the time to do so again.“
Here’s just one example:
The Concept Of “Every Inch Edible!”
Dorothy shared this example:
“Have you ever purchased a beautiful bulb of fennel, stems and fronds and all, chopped off and just used the bulb? Often that is exactly how they are sold and we have no choice. But while the stems are a little more tough than the bulb, they are completely edible and if chopped finely, make a great addition to a soup or stew, especially if you are going to puree it. The fronds can be turned into a pesto or used fresh or dried as an herb, and the seeds and pollen we all know are the most flavorful parts of the plant. Every inch of the fennel is edible, and delicious and nutritious as well.“
The New Vintage Kitchen has lots of ways to be smarter about food use – easy and delicious!See much more here:
With so many of our food products at risk of over-harvesting, weather issues and lack of workers to harvest, preventing food waste is more critical than. ever.
We also need to consider changing how we eat:
For example, would you try this dish of…JELLYFISH?
Well, they are sustainable and healthy to eat – it’s all about the preparation! I’ve tried Jellyfish several time and here’s why they are critical to our food future:
Most of the recipes for Jellyfish were Asian-flavored, perhaps due their willingness to try different things…like ramen buns!
Yes, a bun made from ramen noodles and I’ve eaten one and loved it! And it came with “seaweed fries” – and since seaweed is also a sustainable food source, I am using it in more and more recipes!
See that here:
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Thanks so much for reading – bravo to Dorothy for keeping up the “food waste” fight – and if you enjoy this story please share with your friends on social media!
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great idea to post ways to cut down on food waste, it’s so important
We are really focused on food waste in our house. Every daily meal is planned out in advance, and we only buy what we need for each of those. On an average week the only ‘foods’ that might be thrown away would be the hard centres of cabbages, and maybe very thick broccoli stumps. Once our local authority brings in food waste collection for recycling later this year, we should be able to hit ‘zero’.
Best wishes, Pete.
Thanks for sharing that Pete…there are ways to recycle food waste that many don’t know about or don’t bother, but it all helps…our goal is zero waste and your planning is a great example of how to do that!
No waste here…..dogs and poultry see to that!
Yes, that is great! My sister-in-law feeds their two dogs the same food they eat – for the most part – therefore utilizing it all with no waste….so smart!
Thanks my friend! I am committed to the food waste problem and always searching for ways to use those little bits that might end up in the compost. Somewhere along the way, we stopped thinking of food as a precious commodity.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think of ramen to be used as a burger bun, but I shouldn’t be surprised to find it on your post!
I agree that as mass production changed our lives for the better in so many ways, it also created awful waste and indifference…we will continue to see shortages of food around the world and only those cultures that adapt their consumption will be able to overcome it….thanks for sharing some great ways to think differently about our food
You are very welcome! Thanks for helping to spread the word!
The ramen bun and seaweed fries appeal to me, but it’s not the sort of food that I could buy in our local supermarket.