After we had to record what we ate and what we wasted for about a week I have become more aware of my food waste and I must say while I intend to be very good I subconsciously forget about food I put away and when I discover it it has spoiled. This article gives Tammara Soma, organizer of an upcoming food symposium at the University of Toronto, her tips for cutting down on the amount of food we trash without eating it all. The first thing she suggests is becoming food friends with your freezer, if there is ever a time when we make too much food we need to simply put it I the freezer and use it at a later date. Second she says a huge reason for waste is due to the portion sizes, many of us make or take more food than we will actually eat and it ends up becoming waste. Third she suggests placing the food which is older at the forefront of our shelves and refrigerators and use this when we plan out our meals. Fourth we need to get used to trying new things and experiment with food that may seem to ripe. Lastly we need to take the aesthetics out of eating; if an apple is bruised it is still just as good as one that is not. I think this article is good because the list of suggestions of what we can do as consumers isn’t outrageous and is completely doable.
http://www.thestar.com/life/food_wine/2014/11/24/five_ways_to_reduce_your_food_waste.html
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I think she provides great suggestions in help reducing food waste, which is a growing problem. I think a possible addition to her list could be about expiry dates- almost everything can be safely consumed well after it’s expiration date, and manufacturers set these dates largely because they want people to throw out the product and buy another one, so they can make more of a profit.