How to Waste Less Food

How to Waste Less Food

    Did you know that about one third of all food produced worldwide worth around 1 trillion dollars is lost during food production and consumption? This just shows how much we care about the food we waste.  Most of us might not be doing it on purpose, so here's some tips to waste less food and possibly save some money.

    There are many ways we can save money and waste less food at the same time in our normal household. One of the things we started doing is checking our food storages and making a shopping list.  This is really helpful because you can prevent yourself from buying too much food and you can decide what you want to make for dinner, lunch, and breakfast. Knowing how much you and your family eat,  you should know what to buy and exactly how much of it, like what is usually thrown away won’t be bought and have money wasted on it.

    Knowing where to store your foods is really important because even if they have expiration dates it doesn’t mean that they can't expire or spoil early because of the bad environment they are stored in. This can be helpful in many ways.  It could help you keep the food for longer before it spoils or until you finish it.  Another way this can be helpful is that if can help you remember where you have stored certain types of food. Tip: please don’t just shove everything into your fridge.  It’s so cramped in there that the different ingredients probably don't feel comfortable #FoodHaveFeelingsToo

    Meat is the product that takes the most resources to prepare, transport, and afterwards most of it is wasted.  Each year about 80 kilograms of it is wasted PER PERSON. This just shows you how much we don’t appreciate what we have at our disposal, even though it uses the most resources to be produced but it’s the one that most people eat and take for granted. For this there are many options that can help you save money and waste less meat.  One of them is to purchase and consume less of it and whenever you purchase it try to keep it under a controlled amount, you can get the proteins that your body needs from many other food products such as nuts, peanut butter and most people say that insects are the food of the future, so who knows... maybe in the near future insects will become a delicacy.

    If you have read this far through this blog I would like to thank you for checking out my tips and I hope that this blog has been helpful to you and your family. In conclusion I would like to ask you to put all your new ideas in the comment section and if you have any questions feel free to ask me and I will try to reply.

Works Cited

Gunders, Dana. "Wasted: How America is losing 40% of its food". NRDC.org. Natural Resources Defense Council. 2012. Web. 21 Apr. 2017.

"Reducing Wasted Food at Home". EPA.gov. United States Environmental Protection Agency. 2017. Web. 21 Apr. 2017.

"Waste Not Want Not Blog". Readwritethink.org. IRA/NCTE.     28 Jun. 2012 Web. 21 Apr. 2017.