I loved watching the documentary Wasted! The Story Of Food Waste and I learned so much from it. I learned that there are so many chefs that are trying to create unique dishes based on food that is leftover or uneaten to try and not waste it. For example cauliflower is a food that tends to be wasted a lot because of how much of the plant consists of the stem. Chefs are trying to use the stem in new dishes in order to prevent it from just getting thrown away. A lot of the time grocery stores will turn down foods that look strange but are still edible. Because of this, grocery stores throw away so much food in just a week. Another way that grocery stores waste food is through the “best buy” dates. About every food that is sold has an expiration date and most of those dates are incorrect. Really the only foods that need an expiration date are milk, eggs, cheese, meat, and those kinds of foods.

Another way we could be saving food is by feeding food scraps and waste to livestock. For example we feed pigs with corn and soy which we could be saving for ourselves. Pigs can eat any kind of food scraps, and if we fed waste to pigs we could feed three billion people with the food we would be feeding to pigs.

I also learned about the types of foods that are wasted around the world. Brits eat about a billion sandwiches a month, and so there are so many sandwiches being made everyday. 24 million slices of bread are wasted every day, so as a part of the Anti-Waste Movement they created a brand of beer that is made out of the end parts of loaves of bread. I think that this is a great solution to a food that is wasted a lot all over the world and I think that we should come up with more solutions like this to try and tackle the world wide problem of food waste.