{"id":14026,"date":"2011-12-28T11:43:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=14026"},"modified":"2011-12-28T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:43:55","slug":"wasting-food-love-food-hate-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/wasting-food-love-food-hate-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep from Wasting Holiday Food: Love Food Hate Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/holiday-leftovers-sandwich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14027\" title=\"holiday leftovers sandwich\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/holiday-leftovers-sandwich.jpg\" alt=\"holiday leftover turkey sandwich\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/holiday-leftovers-sandwich.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/holiday-leftovers-sandwich-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Had enough warmed up sweet potatoes or turkey sandwiches? As a dedicated holiday leftover junkie, I know that after a few days, even the best of the remaining Christmas feast starts to get old. But, if you&#8217;re like most Americans, you&#8217;ve still got a ton of food in the fridge&#8230; and while <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2011\/08\/composting-food-scraps-black-soldier-fly-larvae\/\">composting<\/a> your leftovers is an option (a good one), it still represents a waste of the energy and resources that went into making that meal, as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2011\/04\/fruit-production-sustainable\/\">waste of the food<\/a> itself.<\/p>\n<p>So, just choke down another sandwich? You could, but you don&#8217;t have to: British site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovefoodhatewaste.com\">Love Food Hate Waste<\/a> collects some of the most useful and creative approaches to fighting food wastes that I&#8217;ve ever seen. Got leftover mashed potatoes that you&#8217;re thinking of dumping? You can search by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovefoodhatewaste.com\/recipes\/full_foods_list\">the type of ingredient<\/a> you want to use up, and find recipes like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovefoodhatewaste.com\/recipes\/show\/681-hara-bhara-kebab\">Hara bhara kebab<\/a>. User submitted tips cover the best practices for storing certain foods for the short or long term. And the &#8220;Perfect Portions&#8221; tool helps you avoid waste at the preparation stage, by showing you how to plan portions that won&#8217;t result in large amounts of leftovers.<\/p>\n<p>I just came across the site this morning, and am still digging around&#8230; looks like a tremendous resource! If you&#8217;re more familiar with it, feel free to point out favorite recipes or tips.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dothegreenthing.com\/blog\/how_to_lose_the_leftovers\">Do the Green Thing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kthread\/4141747388\/in\/photostream\/\">kthread at Flickr<\/a> under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons license<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the best parts of the leftover holiday feast get old after a few days. British site Love Food Hate Waste collects a wealth of information on how to &#8220;reuse&#8221; leftovers&#8230; or how to avoid them in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":14027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2],"tags":[19,1300,5556,202,2394],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Keep from Wasting Food with Love Food Hate Waste<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hate to throw away holiday leftovers? 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