Breaking Food Waste Norms

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Leisure, Parenting, Kids & Family, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Reducing food waste doesn't always jive with societal norms. That's because keeping perfectly edible food out of landfills might mean being the weirdo who boxes their wedding entree. Or asking (gasp!) to take home extra pizza from a child's birthday party. On today's show: A conversation with journalist Rachael Jackson about how to value food more than we value fitting in. Here's a preview: [7:45] Is composting the solution to food waste? (Answer: No.) [10:00] 5 ways to shamelessly break social norms around food and waste [23:00] Brown avocados, wet spinach, and more: Can we eat or should we toss? Resources mentioned: EPA Wasted Food Scale Project Drawdown ReFED Avocado library I Bought It, Now What Ebooks for reducing food waste This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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1:06.8	Well, hello my friends and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 437 of Sustainable Minimalists. This is a show about
1:11.6	intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living. On today's show, we're discussing the food waste problem. Now, before we get into it, I would love it if you thought about your kitchen and I would love it if
1:24.3	specifically you think about how much edible food you throw out every week so this
1:31.5	could be the food that's left over on your child's plate, your child's full,
1:36.0	so we throw out that little bit here, that little bit there. This is also the food that nobody wants, you didn't get to eat it in time. Edible food not
1:46.0	banana peals, edible food. If you had to measure how much food you'd think your
1:51.0	household throws out every week in cups.
1:55.0	How many cups would that be?
1:56.7	Take a minute, get your answer,
1:58.4	and then let me tell you that the latest research
2:01.8	into food waste finds that the average United States household throws out
2:08.0	6.2 cups of edible food every single week. 6.2 cups. Now food waste is a problem not only
2:18.1	because when we throw out edible food we're also essentially throwing our hard-earned money out the window. Food's expensive and we pay for that
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