• in the kitchen,  mind/body

    Love Food, Hate Waste

    Are you a food snob?  And no, I don’t mean you have to have the crème de la crème.  Roughly 1.3 billion pounds of food are wasted every year (that’s nearly one-third of food produced annually!).  Meanwhile, 805 million people suffer from daily hunger.  In a society characterized by jam-packed social calendars – dining out means there are plenty of untapped refrigerators.  Are you, then, being so picky with what’s on your plate that you could be contributing to these numbers? Before you start beating yourself up, know that we’re all guilty of wasting perfectly good food. But the simple fact is many of our habits are unconsciously setting us…