HOW CAN WE SAVE  OUR FOOD ?          

When I was in seventh grade, I saw students in the school cafeteria like me, who usually didn’t eat all the food of their lunch, such as soup, green peppers...Nearly half of the food wasn’t eaten. I always wondered where the food went. Was the food eaten by other people or sent to another place? Then I figured out that the food wasn’t eaten by someone else. It was sent to a huge area called landfill with trash to be rotten. Since this area included trash and rotten food it had a very bad scent. I learned also this land caused a lot of damages to the environment such as releasing greenhouse gas called methane.

In that time I thought some ways to avoid these harmful effects of these lands. As these lands are mainly formed from uneaten food, I realized that by preventing food waste we might stop it. Preventing food waste is not as hard as it sounds. There are some easy ways to do it, such as planning the shopping, storing the food correctly, and using the leftovers.

  First of all planning your shopping is very simple. To do this firstly check your kitchen (your fridge, cupboards) to detect what you have. Next, write a shopping list that just includes your needs. While you are doing shopping, don’t forget to look “use by” date. Also, avoid going shopping when you are hungry, tired, lonely, bored or upset because these emotional states lead you to overshop items that you don’t want or need. You should choose loose fruits and vegetables rather than packed ones. These fruits and vegetables are both good for your health and more importantly, you can decide how much food you will buy. Even you can do some research by going to different supermarkets to know the different prices of the same food. In this way, you may also save some money.

       Second of all, after shopping, store the food appropriately or your food will

spoil so quickly. If you have packed food, store it according to the instructions on the package. For fruits and vegetables, you must store them in the fridge. In addition, after using some of the bread, you can store rest of it by freezing, and later you remove it from the fridge and wait at least half an hour to let the bread get to the room temperature or heat in the oven. You can also arrange your fridge to consume food by date, for example, put the old ones in the front and the new ones in the back the same as in the fridge.

        Last of all, you can do a lot of things by using your leftovers. Firstly start to

think that your leftovers are your new ingredients. You can create new meals.

For example; You made pasta more than you consume, and after two days of eating you didn’t want to eat it anymore. Make a pasta salad with corn and pickles, instead of throwing away. If your bread is stale you dip them into eggs and put some tomatoes on it then cook it in the oven. Also, you can make soup from uneaten vegetables. Moreover, even uneaten vegetables and fruits can be converted to compost for your garden and for your houseplants.

       As a result, there are a lot of options to avoid food waste and, by using

these methods you may not only prevent food waste, you may also save money and

consume healthy food as well as preventing the world from exhausting resources. With these methods we might reduce using lands to store food trashes thus we can use those lands and grow flowers, plant trees.

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