Don't waste food!

I agree you should only consume the amount of food that your body actually requires . Over eating causes serious health problems as where wasting food causes wealth problems . The key here is balance . Balance your diet , less wasted food , giving you enough money to donate £2-3 per month on helping people less fortunate . Without charity and good will people will continue to starve and die of Malnutrition ......its a balance people . Also a guilty consciounce knowing that you have the power to save a life .

Correct my friend. Specially at parties, people would pile lots of foods on their plates and ending up not wanting the taste of some foods and would finish with lots of uneaten foods on their plates. I make it a point, when i am in a party, to just get some small amounts of each food, and taste them one by one when i am already in my seat. Only when i have tasted a food to be delicious would i go back to get some more. That way, i finish every morsel of food in my plate.

I also think that we should not try to waste food and lots of people die of hungry and because they have nothing to eat. I think we should try to take less food when we are not hungry and try not to make any left overs. I think it is a good practice to take only what you need.

haha, yeah! It's good not to waste food because money is not easy to come by. People who waste food as those who has never been situations where they cant even afford to eat single meal Since young, my parents has always taught me not to waste food and i'm still doing it till now. No matter how much food i have on my plate, i will be sure to finish them all regardless of how full or bloated i'm :D As such, my appetite grew as years go by and yet i'm still of average build. I guess eating a lot really does help in keeping my weight in check.. lol

I think it's good that you think that way. I have heard some people lecture about not wasting food, and by that they mean finish what is on your plate, no matter how much is there. Consuming less means there is more for others in theory, although it unfortunately doesn't always get passed on to those in need. However, I think leftovers are fine because by storing and eating your leftovers, you keep from making more food that could be given to others. Either way, it's shameful to waste food when others could use it.

People are quite wasteful these days due to the abundance of food. I agree that there are starving people out there but the government isn't interested in the people but what's on the people's land. I really hate the people who put on facebook like to save a starving kid in Africa and I tell them to get off and actually help them by going to Africa and giving them food.

Hi cearn, It is true many people are dying due to hungry; it is also true that many are wasting lot of food. A hungry person knows the value of food. I always telling my kids not to waste the food, I provide them with little quantity and if they need more I can give again, in this way I try my best to avoid wastage of food. I shocked to listen from my friend, she knows somebody who worked as a cook in a rich family. This family never allows the workers to eat from there. Once they finish their work and should leave the place, even if left over foods are there, they won’t provide this food to workers. (To my utter shock that left over food is going to the dustbin in the next day) Cameras are everywhere in the kitchen to find out the activities of every worker. I can’t understand the mentality of such rich people.

I do not like waste food. If I take the food into my dish, i will eat them up unless they are bad to health. My grandma suffer from hunger when she was still young, so she taught us not waste any food in our life. And we all follow her teaching. But many people here, even from poor families, waste food all the day. In their eyes, wasting food is the way to show their richness and high social status. I do not think so. I do not think a person can get other's respect from that kind of behavior.

I try not to waste any food, and growing up we were told not to waste food, to think of the poor people around the world who would love to have the food we are able to eat. Suffice it to say, growing up anything left on the plate was to be left for or later or offered to others. If the others didn't eat it we were to leave it for later.

Yeah, I also hate those people who waste the precious food. I used to ask one of those people why they waste the food which could be used to save many poor people. He told me that they paid their own money for the food so that they could deal with it as their wishes. In my view, it's true that they pay for the food, but they should not forget that a lot of resources are consumed to produce the food and such resources belong to each human beings. A person should consume the food moderately.

i cearn25 i my self do not like to waste some food because i know that there are many people who are not eating , i have my cousin who doesn't like to eat to much my auntie cook food for him but my cousin will not eat all when im observing some psyche patient in the hospital i realize that they need some food because of the side effects of the medicine and also some places in manila many kids doesn't eat... i tried to tell my cousin that never ever waste some food but still he do it... so difficult to tell to a child not to waste food.

Wasting foods is strictly prohibited.We should just eat foods that we can cause too many out there are hungry and have no food at all.We have to be more conscious enough of giving importance to every food that we have.

That is very very very right...you know what I do the same everytime there will be family gathering if there are leftovers I always always make sure that either I gave it to street children or what or if it cannot be eaten anymore I gave it to those who have dogs or the people who collects leftover food for their pigs...It is not only because there are alot of people which are very hungry but also I always make sure to get the value of my money hhehehe food is not ask from the market you always NEED to pay for it so if you PAID for it I believe we need to maximize what we can get from it just that.

I agree. I always try not to waste food. One thing that really irritates me is when a restaurant/bakery/deli will throw away extra food at the end of the day. There are so many hungry people out there in the world that wouldn't mind eating food that was left over from a buffet, for instance. One restaurant I worked for had a buffet every day at lunch. Even if there was still enough to feed an army afterward, they'd just throw it away. What made it even worse is that there was a soup kitchen just a few blocks away. If it were up to me, I'd take all of the leftovers to the soup kitchen. Help people who are in need, since it would've been lost profit anyway. Ugh, it just makes me so mad.

I feel the same like you. I will not order many food since I know I can't finish them. It will be a waste. I will pack the leftovers and bring it home. I will feel guilty to waste the food as actually there are many people are still starving in the world. We are just lucky people. We shall cherish it. I love China

Yes, if only for the fact that many people are not eating well, and yet we are eating very well should make us give more value the consistent supply of food we have each day. Let's avoid wasting food. If possible leftovers should be avoid and if could not avoided they shouldn't be thrown away. There are ways to keep it from spoiling and we can also recycle left over food for the next meal.

Yes, we should practice the habit and be thankful too that we are not one of those people who have no food to eat. Also taking things only if we thought is enough for us and sharing what is in excess is a good attitude too.

Thanks for sharing such topics and i think we should really pay attention to the food that had already been wasted.It's really bad doign that cause there are still who can't afford for that.Just make our own efforts.

you have started a wonderful discussion. It is really awful to see people and small children in African continents and many other parts of the world suffering a lot because of starvation. They dont have food for even a single time in a day. We are arranging a grand party or we are having grand wedding and wasting tons and tons of foods just like that. No one is feeling for This awful situation. We should not waste food and we should try to give food for people who are starting.

I never left any food on the plate. My mother always told me there are so many people out there that have no food to eat. They are eating from garbage and people left over from the restaurant. The best way if you can't eat all your food is give it to someone else. Even what I don't want to eat perhaps will be one of the most expensive food for those who have no money to eat.