Ainara Fresneda

Three ways to reduce food waste at your home.

Did you know that 88 millions tons of food per year are wasted in the whole world?
We should not throw away that much amount of food. So, if you want to start reducing food
waste at your home you can follow these three easy and fast steps; plan your shopping

list, freeze the food and serve small amounts of food.

Firstly, you should plan your shopping list. Planning
is important because when you

plan your list, you will buy the food you need so you
will not throw away food that you buy but you forget
you have it because you didn’t
need it. Also, you will buy food that you like
and that you will eat so you will not throw it away.
So, by planning it, this will not happen
because everything will be more organized.

Secondly, you should freeze the food you

buy but you do not feel like eating it in that moment.
Once you buy it, you put it in the freezer
until you feel like eating it and you take it out of the freeze.

Anyways, you should not forget you have it in the freezer

because if not it will expired and not be good anymore.

So, as I said before, if you plan your shopping
list, as someday you will need the food, even
if you put it on the freeze, you will
know it is there and you will not forget

it is there.

Thirdly, you should serve small amounts of food to the people who are eating. So,
just in case, to not waste food, you serve only a little and after if you still being
hungry, you serve more until you are full. So, in this case you will not throw
away anything. Also, when you do not eat something, the food that is left on
the plate, we could just use them to cook something new. Make sure that next
time you will not buy too much of what you didn't eat last time.

As a conclusion, this is a very important topic because it is a thing that we do
everyday and we should not do it so that is why we have to learn how to not
do it that much. Basically, just by following these easy steps, food waste can
be reduced and it could be able to reach to more people. There are lots of ways
to reduce it but from my point of view, these three points are the easiest way to
start and to stop throwing away that much quantity of food so we could see that
all together can make a better world without wasting that amount of food.

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European Commission. ‘Food Waste’. EC.Europe.eu. European Union.
2016. Web. 1 Mar 2019.

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Web. 1 Mar. 2019.

Lyons, Kate. ‘Cutting Food Waste by a Quarter’. The guardian.com.
The guardian news and media limited. 12 Aug. 2015. Web. 1 Mar. 2019.