Category Archives: Household

Friday Buffet

The food waste book market is ‘hotting up.’ A book called Waste is now out in the UK. I’m excited about it and hope to get my hands on a copy soon. — — California’s East Bay MUD is the first wastewater treatment plant in the U.S. to turn post-consumer food waste into energy via […]

July 17, 2009 | Also posted in Composting, Energy, Friday Buffet, International | Comments closed

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In fruit recovery news…Concord, California’s Lemon Lady got some good press. The Times had a solid piece on tree gleaning last month. And I just found out about Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle, which specializes in tree fruit and whose site features a neat map of fruit trees gleaned. — — Ahh…Sweden. Each apartment in […]

July 10, 2009 | Also posted in Composting, Friday Buffet, International, School | Comments closed

Leftover Times

There was an article on leftovers in Wednesday’s New York Times. While it was exciting to see a topic I’m so fond of discussed in that venue, I thought it was…an odd piece. With questionable examples used. Cheese-revoking is bad enough, but bread stealing as retribution?! Making a meal from scratch that’s intended to appear as […]

July 9, 2009 | Also posted in History and Culture | Comments closed

Handy and Tasty

I recently came across Still Tasty, and I give it two thumbs up. The site provides a reference for how long food will stay both safe and, yes, tasty. In doing so, it strikes a nice balance between providing official information and realism. Their take on expiration dates is spot on. And the Keep it […]

July 8, 2009 | Also posted in Food Safety, Technology | Comments closed

Worth a Thousand Words: Be a Good Parer

Here’s my second foray into the glamorous world of food waste videos. If you listen closely (or at all), you’ll hear my boy add his three cents. (Sorry, there’s only so many takes when you’re cutting up produce…and the other one was worse!) Discount Veggies from Jonathan Bloom on Vimeo. I can understand why the […]

June 22, 2009 | Also posted in Worth a Thousand Words | Comments closed

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Come on, Cleveland! You’re telling me you toss so much food on the ground at ballgames that you’ve essentially trained sea gulls to come on game days?! First Drew Carey, now this? On the plus side, I’d really like to see a live eagle swoop, so I hope the fireworks don’t disperse the gulls. — — Here’s Makes […]

June 19, 2009 | Also posted in Composting, Friday Buffet, Garden | Comments closed

Life to Leftovers: Hot Dog Buns

Last week, I wrote about having excess hamburger buns. Well, I now have a surplus of their sibling: hot dog buns. And since we all had so much fun in the maiden voyage of Life to Leftovers, I thought we’d give it another shot. [By the way, I haven’t heard from any of you with dilemmas of your own–maybe you’re all use-it-up […]

June 1, 2009 | Also posted in Life to Leftovers | Comments closed

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Here’s the Complete Guide to Freezing Just About Everything, courtesy of Coupon Kim. Thanks, Kim. — — The owners of the Green Cafe in suburban Philadelphia will be feeding the restaurant’s food scraps to their rescued animals. Check this out: Leftover food scraps regularly become meals for the mustangs, zony (a zebra-pony hybrid), goats and other creatures that reside across the […]

May 29, 2009 | Also posted in Friday Buffet, Restaurant | Comments closed

Brunchy Buns

A few days ago, I tweeted about having extra hamburger buns. It’s a common problem, as you can only really get packaged buns in packs of eight. Now, you can avoid this problem by buying higher-end, buns individually or even baking your own. But I like those cheap-o, white bread burger buns. I’m really just looking […]

May 27, 2009 | Also posted in Personal | Comments closed

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Might we see curbside food waste collection in Ohio? Some towns near Columbus are considering it. — — A Little Caesars franchisee in Florida recently started donating all unsold pizzas to a United Way soup kitchen. Never having lived in a Little Caesar’s state (despite enduring their ads), I couldn’t imagine why they had so much excess until […]

May 22, 2009 | Also posted in Composting, Food Recovery, Friday Buffet, Restaurant, Trayless | Comments closed