My family is big on not wasting any food, my dad especially. I think it’s because growing up he wasn’t very fortunate and lots of the time his family would just get buy paying this bills let alone feeding a family of 8. Nothing was wasted in their household. My dad remembers looking at other kids at school throwing away the crusts from sandwiches and thinking they were crazy and how much he wished he had a sandwich for lunch.  At my house, we use a compost bin, but you will hardly see edible food in there. It’s mostly just vegetable shavings, apple cores and banana peels. My dad won’t even let us leave food on our plate at dinner, and if we are too full, he saves it and the next time we are hungry, it is what we have to eat. My family rarely eats out because both my parents have cooking backgrounds and love to cook.

Personally, I could definitely improve on my food waste. I often find containers of old food in my backpacks and then have to throw it out or sometimes I won’t finish dinner and I will sneak my plate  into the garage and scrap it into the compost down there so that no one knows I wasted food. To become better at eating all my food or at least not having it go bad in my backpack, the first thing I can do when I get home is unpack my lunch and either eat it or put it in the fridge for later.