1000 Flowers for the Planet - #276 Write a Weekly Menu Plan
With food waste at approximately 30% in
developed countries we need to find ways of reducing that incredibly high
statistic. It’s nearly a third! That’s really wasteful, and when you think of
all the resources that have gone into producing the food in the first place, it
makes it almost criminal. Humans keep taking more and more land for habitation
and particularly for food production, reducing habitats for wild animals and
therefore threatening thousands of species into extinction. We have the
knowledge and the power to reduce our effects if we apply ourselves.
A small way, but an impactful way, is to write a
menu plan for the week, or even for a whole fortnight. Once you know what you
plan to cook for the week you can purchase food accordingly, only buying what
you will actually use without second-guessing what you ‘might’ feel like
cooking. Include a leftovers night in that plan (Flower #275). Apart from all
the resources you’ll be saving, you will find you have more time on your hands
from not having to worry about what you’re going to do at dinnertime and you’ll
be saving yourself money. Challenge yourself to write a weekly menu plan for
two months and see how it works. Good luck.
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