How do you typically dispose of food scraps?
By Shavkat
@Shavkat (140118)
Philippines
December 9, 2023 9:22pm CST
Recently, I have started to reduce food waste at home. The food scraps are being planted, like the bases of cabbages, carrots, eggplants, etc. This morning, I was so glad to see my tomatoes growing fast. In time, I can harvest them fresh. Since I am not good at planting seeds, I tried to learn the DIYs to grow them. In this way, I don't need to buy fresh vegetables in the public market. Thus, I can reduce my food expenses.
Are you reducing food waste in your home in any way?
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@Shavkat (140118)
• Philippines
11 Dec 23
I am not an expert, either. All I did was dry the seeds first and plant them in the soil. For the eggplant, it is still in progress. I just cut the base and scratched the surface with the sliced onion. Then, I soaked it in water with salt. I am waiting for roots to pop out of them.
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@GardenGerty (160949)
• United States
11 Dec 23
Right now we just try to eat what we have. It is clever of you to propagate your produce. I hope it all goes great and you have abundant crops.
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@popciclecold (39510)
• United States
11 Dec 23
@Shavkat Now that's a good idea.
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@popciclecold (39510)
• United States
10 Dec 23
That's a good idea, I need to look into that myself. Food is so expensive.
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
10 Dec 23
I don't keep track of how much food we house of 5 waste or don't waste. We try to eat as many as possible of our left over before they go bad. Gluten-free food tends to go back a lot quicker then none gluten free good but that isn't the case all of the time.
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
11 Dec 23
@Shavkat try to eat them certainly does help
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@Shavkat (140118)
• Philippines
12 Dec 23
@ShyBear88 It is like my old man used to say: "There are a lot of people who are not eating, so we need to consume everything instead of wasting them."
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@yanzalong (18987)
• Indonesia
10 Dec 23
Everyday we get rid of food waste. The truck comes past our house and they collect the food waste.
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@Shavkat (140118)
• Philippines
12 Dec 23
@allknowing Is it allowed to burn something in the yard there like dry leaves? It so forbidden here now.
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@RasmaSandra (80736)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 Dec 23
I have no place to plant anything, Whatever scraps I have I throw away,
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@Deepizzaguy (104150)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
10 Dec 23
My relatives and myself use food scraps to feed a stray dog outside every night.
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@BearArtistLady (6036)
• United States
13 Dec 23
I break out my crock pot and use my meat scraps, veggie bits, and onions and garlic to simmer down for soup. Then I throw in noodles, and I can have soup for several days. What I don't eat right away is put into a zip loc bag and put flat in the freezer and saved for another couple meals later. I love homemade soup in the wintertime, and if the neighbors get a good whiff and make comment, they usually walk off with a container of soup to enjoy. Any of the meat that isn't useable in the soup gets cut up and I give it to the outside cat in her meals.
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@TraveOnWorld (854)
• Georgia
11 Dec 23
I don't have a garden space and until I can find someone with a few chickens close by, we generally throw out whatever I cannot use for fresh vegetable stock. If I had a dehydrator again, we would dry and make vegetable stock powder from scraps as well. We try to use as much as possible of whatever we buy.
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