I hate throwing good food out, as my parents always told me there are people starving. I have become good at reinventing meals or recycling food. Unfortunately spoilt yachties aren’t satisfied always eating leftovers. So I had to get good at disguising what would normally go into the slop bucket as a brand new fresh made with love meal. My success is judged by how often I get compliments on the same food someone wanted to throw out the day before. After the meal is eaten and enjoyed I take great joy, maybe some pride, it can even be a little like 'i told you so, nah nah" but i think i just want them to feel bad for having wanted to waste good food .
Mould!!! Anything with mould or even slightly blemished fruit will not be touched. Easy, the fruit is guzzled back when liquefied and the moldy cheese is simple represented later cut to look nice, rather than making people sick I am probably strenghtening their immune systems. To date I have not been linked to any fatalities or had my food accused of causing a upset stomach.
One of my crew meal favorites is “jail house slop”, a crew member is like an inmate, living by someone elses rules, stuck on a boat living in cabins smaller than cells being served gourmet food, getting you clothes washed and folded everyday, well in some ways but it can definately feel like being a paid slave. Ok jail house slop, it involves piling whatever you don’t want to throw away (and is still perfectly edible) together with some sort of sauce and baking but most importantly it needs to be served in giant metal tray. Stuffed mushroom have been great for telling the crew that the delicious stuffing was yesterday’s snubbed vegetables. I do feel a bit absurd when I won’t throw out potatoes or rice and have reinvented something multiple times. Some enjoy my food recycling as it fondly reminds them of the forgotten waste not methods of parents or grandparents. Could food recycling be a start in moving away from the throw away society we westerners have embraced?
Why are we so willing to waste food? Is it because we have become so obsessed with food bacteria? Do we notice the quantity and value of the food we throw away? Laziness? Indifference?
Try saving all your organic waste for a day. Even when only cooking for two and trying not to waste anything I am amazed at the quantity of compostable waste I produce.
Food is energy so a sustainable efficient food system is the first step to sustainable efficient energy systems.
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cant believe no one hasd commented on this yet.. everyone..EVERYONE is guilty of chucking perfectly good food just because its got a little mould or looks funny.. and you are exactly right about helping immune system by a liitle mild bacteria doses.. never hurt anyone..
i think we need to develop a way of capturing a nd somehow reusing the biological wastes from commercial food establishments.. that its way way too much waste there.. i thnk we have talked about using it in biomass converters , but what about much simpler and immediate solutions.. your stuff on freeganism.. what about using it as composte for organic farmers, the same way pig farmers used to come and collect food scraps, organic farmers or compost makers could collect and use the same waste to provide for their crops..??
Thanks for the thoughts dre, the fact that freeganism exists shows that there is a huge loss of resources. In a world full of hunger this irresponsible commercial operation should not be acceptable.
Simple solution from a small co-op store in the east village, puts its partially spoiled produce outside in baskets for passers by to take as they please. We need to find a way to fit this behavior into the industry, the only inhibitor i can see is a possible loss of sales.
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