Oh what a waste!!!!!

HI ruby, I am sad but I need to throw some of our veggies since it's been a while in the fridge! We tried to avoid doing it thinking there are million of people all over the world who are not even eating, and here we are wasting some. ANyway, lesson for my husband and I to be more careful about buying stuff which is enough for us..

Yes, I've throwed out today some bread and an old cheese. I hate doing this, couse everytime I am remebering myself that somewhere people are dieing becouse of hunger and I am just trowing food away. I feel just guilty about it. Cheers and happy myloting.

Being in the centre of hunger striken countries, I have learned how not to waste food. Here in Kenya we buy things that are mostly needed and make sure we use them all up. If I see that I have something in the fridge and it might end up in the bin, I pack it well and give it to the street families as I walk past them to the office. Even when we buy lunch and you see its going to be too much for us we give part of it to the needy people in the street and they really appreciate it by the shining smile on their faces.

During the holidays my daughter works for a catering company. On Saturday she worked at a jazz festival. Afterwards she brought home a pack of six bread rolls and two iceberg lettuces. Rolls go quickly here, lettuce not so fast. Iceberg lettuce barely at all as they are the most tasteless things on earth. We will eat one I am sure, the other will go on the compost heap. They also cooked a whole hog. Wonder what happened to that, there was quite a lot left over apparently. We try to have only enough food for a couple of days in the house. But even then we can be wasteful. At least fruit and veg can be composted and meat turned to stock. But there's a limit to how much stock you can use at one time. As a nation we ned to get a grip Ruby.

Nope, I have totally changed the way I do things with regards to shopping. I now only by what I need day by day. Not only am I saving a lot of money a week, but I am cutting down on the amount of waste that gets thrown in the bin. I had that much junk left in the cupboards that had gone out of date years ago, that I filled a whole bin with it all. It is just daft what we waste. Now if I buy a jar of sauce like a curry sauce I make sure I use it all on meals even if it means we eat curry all week!

I hate to waste food, but I must admit that there is occasionally some small thing or two that gets tossed into the garbage when I go through the refrigerator. I don't do it often, though, and I cringe when I have to do it. I live as cheaply as possible and need every penny to get by, so when I hear of people being wasteful like that it makes me very sad. There are a lot of people that could benefit greatly from what others throw away.

oh is it so? peoplemshould now rethink before wasting. food is raelly a crisis worldwide. in this rate it will be hard.I also think news came that USA also waste food.

I also see a lot of wastage of food. Eery time I see my fridge my mind gets sick of seeing food items sleeping there for days. Mine is a big united family of four small families, so I can understand it upto an extent. But I think in small families these things can be controlled easily. But in India, we dont have tradition to throwing old food in bins, rather we offer it to cows.

I think it is obscene that so much food that is wasted. I have read that most families throw out one third of the food they buy. I bet some of these people complain about being poor too! It breaks my heart to see people piling up food in their trolleys knowing that so much will be wasted. I never throw any food out because I don't buy more than I need and I never keep it long enough for it to go off. Saying that I probably eat too much, but my money is limited so I don't buy unneccesary food. I also think it's bad that so much food gets thrown out because of its sell-by date. I recently read a report by a journalist who lived on food which had passed its sell-by date. He did this for one week and suffered no ill effects at all.

Ruby..I am sorry to say i didn't use all my milk up and it went past the expiring date so did send that down the drain..it was about 1/4 of it..otherwise i am pretty good about not wasting.

Theres nothing much in my fridge here today its the day before im due to go to town,so its Mother hubards cupboard here im afraid,even the mouse is hungry.

It is not just us that waste food but the supermarkets restrants throw away loads of food rather than give it to people for free? It doesnt make sense does it? My dogs eat all the waste we have but that is very little.

Oh no such a waste of food! Food should never be wasted i believe and what i am thought after my marriage. In my house our in-laws came from very poor background, and they know the value of even one morsel of rice. They know what is poverty and hunger , though they have soo much now, they don't dare to waste food. Even if something is stored in fridge for two or three days and not spoiled, they only eat we don't throw food, until unless spoiled. Its really bad to waste food when so many people are in misery.

Wasting anything is an evil,and someone told me if I did so I would be punished when I was a child. 'Who wastes time is the murderer who kills yourself',it makes sense to everyone.Actually wasting food is a big issue,if somebody don't agree with it,you may calculate how much food would be lost everyday,and you'll get a surprise at last,wow that's too much formerlly. so do not waste anything again,the world's limited resource is cutting down year by year with the pollution being more and more,how terrible it would be,can you image it? In a word,let us save our energy resources immediately.

no I do not throw food away as I do not make more than enough for myself and any leftovers get used the following day as I a m on a fixed income and have to live within my means. I cook for one so no big problem. just careful shopping' and careful cooking.

I agree that the wastage in our world is one of the saddest things,all those that are starving .But what I can never understand is at the end of the day the supermarkets are allowed to chuck all of the food that is nearing its date and damaged boxes etc out,and sling it into a skip,why in gods name doesnt someone change it round and let the stuff all go to good use.