
Eliminating Food Waste in Your Home; Is your Rotting Lettuce staring you down too?
I combine such random food when I don't want anything to go to waste. But it's nutritional; I get fueled and full - so that's okay. I also label an "Eat Me First" container in my fridge since my lettuce and zucchini are always the first to get trashed if I don't. Some research from www.foodprint.org revealed the estimated 125 to 160 billion pounds of food that goes to waste every year; most of it is perfectly edible & nutritious. Food waste costs our country $218 billion per