感恩节快到了。一个与你爱的人分享食物、快乐和感恩的时刻。不幸的是,我们和家人一起庆祝富足的热情常常导致大量的食物浪费。
In the United States, we generate an extra 5 million tons of household waste each year between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, including three times as much food waste as at other times of the year. When our total food waste adds up to 34 million tons each year, that equals a lot of food.
With millions of people, mainly children and the elderly, going to bed hungry every night, this type of waste is insensitive and wrong. To help make people aware of this problem, the Worldwatch Institute recently publisheda list of simple stepswe all can take to help make this season less wasteful and more plentiful.
Here are our Top 5 favorites:
1. Plan your menu and exactly how much food you’ll need.TheLove Food Hate Wasteorganization, which focuses on sharing convenient tips for reducing food waste, provides a handy “Perfect portions” planner to calculate meal sizes for parties as well as everyday meals.
2. Encourage self-service.允许客人自己选择他们想要吃什么,吃多少。这有助于使食物感觉更熟悉,也减少了客人盘子里多余的食物。此外,使用较小的餐具或盘子等简单的技巧可以鼓励小份量,减少盘子上的剩余量。
3. Store leftovers safely.妥善储存我们的剩菜,可以安全地保存它们,以备日后食用。美国农业部建议热的食物放置不超过两个小时。将剩菜储存在更小的、单独大小的容器中,使它们更方便地作为一顿快餐,而不是被忽略,最终浪费掉。
4.Compost food scraps.Instead of throwing out the vegetable peels, eggshells, and other food scraps from making your meal, consider adding them to a compost pile.Individual composting systemscan be relatively easy and inexpensive to make, and provide quality inputs for garden soils. In 2010, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to pass legislation encouraging city-wide composting, and similar broader-scale food composting approaches have been spreading since.
5. Donate excess.Food banks and shelters gladly welcome donations of canned and dried foods, especially during the holiday season and colder months. The charity group Feeding America partners with over 200 local food banks across the United States, supplying food to more than 37 million people each year. To find a food bank near you, visit the organization’sFood Bank Locator.
How to you reduce food waste during the holidays? Share your ideas in a comment!
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