Eat Your Leftovers

5:14 pm - April 3, 2008

Even though most of our parents diligently drove home the virtues of clearing our plates and eating our vegetables (all of them), compostable waste such as yard trimmings and food scraps still make up 23 percent of the U.S. solid waste stream. Meanwhile, huge plots of land and countless resources are devoted to producing the ingredients that go into our various meals and snacks. For example, we've got 255 million chickens busy providing for our nation's annual demand for eggs, and a geographic area the size of Wyoming growing our wheat. With that in mind, wasting food is about more than just wasting money—it's also about wasting all the land resources that produce it. That doesn't mean you should keep eating when you're already full. Just save the leftovers and have them later. After all, nothing is better than a cold slice of pizza in the morning.

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leftover stew
posted by lynette355 on 2008-04-06 18:41:02

Place a large covered bowl in your freezer. After a meal take you bits and pieces of meat, vegtables and pasta and place in bowl. Do daily til bowl is full. Now defrost and place in stew pot. Add stock and cook. Will not take long as all food was cooked to begin with. Makes good stew and all from that bit you did not have enough to do with. Do same with smaller bowl with fruits and you can make smoothies too.

Better: Eat less meat and save even more resources
posted by garyloewenthal on 2008-04-17 01:36:08

A meatless meal uses far fewer resources (land, oil, water) than a meat-based one. Demand for meast is also a major cause of deforestation and water pollution.

Note that the vast majority of those 255 million laying hens are not "busy." They're confined in heinously small battery cages in which they barely have enough room to stand. They have nothing to do; no decisions to make; no opportunity to use their bodies or minds. In the wild, they'd be exploring their environment, dust-bathing, and sun-bathing. In battery cage facilities, they waste away in darkness, breathing ammonia fumes, standing on wire grates, until they're grabbed from their cages, trucked to the slaighterhouse, and killed at 18 months old.

Consider veganism: it's the ultra-green, non-violent diet.

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