{"id":17737,"date":"2014-07-08T10:25:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T16:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=17737"},"modified":"2014-07-08T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T01:56:41","slug":"leftover-food-big-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/leftover-food-big-event\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Do with Leftover Food from a Big Event?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Did you have, or go to, an Independence Day barbecue or picnic over the past long weekend? Been to a wedding this Summer? A family reunion? All of these events feature food… often lots of it. In fact, often more food than the attendees can possibly eat in one sitting. What happens to that leftover food<\/a> after the last guest leaves? Does it go in the fridge… or the trash?<\/p>\n

Abundance is a good thing… until it becomes wasteful. And, as we’ve pointed out many, many times in the past, our abundance of food in this country leads to a lot of waste: 40% of the food we produce gets wasted along the way from farm to table. While most of us feel confident to handle the leftovers from a single family meal, the leftover food from an event can feel overwhelming… and the trash can or dumpster may seem like the quickest way to relieve that anxiety.<\/p>\n

User Jelena Woehr at GOOD threw out this concept<\/a> as an opportunity for all of us to “do GOOD.” She shared her own effort to cut the waste from an event she attended by making a casserole from savory leftovers, and sharing boxes of donuts with her apartment building (which went over really well).<\/p>\n

So, I got to thinking and poking around… how can we make better use of the leftovers that inevitably come with a celebration?<\/p>\n