Wasting food

[fire_of_avalon]

Rantz, I'm not even joking whenever I have to throw away some food I picture your face in my mind and how disappointed you'd be in me!

I think I'm quite bad at wasting food. It's something I'm trying much harder not to do, mostly I'm that person that forgets she bought those strawberries until one day she finds them a bit... green in the fridge. It's hard when you buy for one person as you're responsible for eating it all. When I'm at home (parents) though, no food gets wasted because we have 4 rottweilers okay.

I am like this too, because maybe I want strawberries or grapes or something for a couple of days but then I get busy and just eat something at work for a few days BUT EVERYTHING IS NOW ROTTEN BECUASE smurf YOU, MEGAN.

It's really rough with kids because their metabolisms are all over the place. Full-on meals just don't work. So much is wasted. The answer to not wasting food is not to just eat everything (that's an especially terrible thing to teach kids), but to portion less in the first place.

I despise wastefulness (and not just food). I think it's probably somewhere beyond pet peeve level. I'm kind of mean about it sometimes.

Even food that's kind of gone bad (stale cereal, partially rotten bananas, etc.) can be useful. My oldest daughter is super crafty and uses stale cereal, spilled noodles, ruined rice, etc. in her crafts and "experiments."

Fruit & vegetables that have gone bad still make good smoothies.

You should run a help-line for people like me so I can call you when I'm cleaning out the refrigerator once a week and scream at me. Also, brown bananas = the best banana bread in the universe.

as a side note how often would you lot go grocery shopping I try and go once - twice a week and select only what I can eat in the next few days. This pattern allows me to be flexible in what I want because I only have to think of 4 - 5 days food maximum this is a great planner for how much I'll need/what to buy.

This is a great idea, if/when I live closer to town. But I probably would just start eating steak every day.

I worked at the food court in Target for a while and I hated it because every night you had to throw all the food away

EVERY NIGHT, FRESHBAKED COOKIES GOT TRASHED

It was so sad

This bothers me a lot because tons and tons of restaurants do this when all that cooked food could be useful to somebody. It upsets me. Which is why I better eat my goddamn strawberries.