Today is International Stop Food Waste Day – the largest single day of action in the fight against food waste!
Food waste is central to some of the key challenges facing the world today, including hunger and poverty, climate change, health and wellbeing and the sustainability of agriculture and oceans.
Wasting food is also a waste of the energy to grow, harvest, process and cook, and food waste in landfill can cause methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas. (*Source: World Food Programme)
Here are 5 easy steps to help you manage food waste in your home 😊😊
Stop Food Waste Day
Growing your own vegetables makes it a lot easier to reduce food waste.
Reducing the amount of waste is not hard but does take some effort.
Here’s some tips on how:
• When you grow your own veggies , you can harvest just what you need to cook – no waste!
• Pickle or preserve when you have an abundance.
• Fight food waste with your freezer. Cook up excess food or veggies and pop them in your freezer. Don’t let good food go to waste!
• Store your veggies in natural, chemical-free and plastic-free storage – not soft or hard plastic containers. An all-natuall Fresh Produce Enhancer makes veggies last longer in the fridge.
• You can even regrow some vegetables from kitchen scraps – google it and you’ll be surprised what you can grow!
• Grow herbs on your windowsill – so fresh and handy!
• Save seeds to grow more – win win!
Listen to our podcast about the importance of fruit and veggies www.storednaturally.com/important-fruit-and-vegetables
This will shock you 😲…. Do you know these facts about food waste?
• Australian households waste 2.5 million tonnes of food each year …. THAT’S MORE THAT 4kg per HOUSEHOLD PER WEEK!
• The Australian economy loses $36.6 billion per year due to food waste and households account for around 50 per cent of this.
• Food waste is avoidable and can reduce costs for households. Australian households spend between $2,000–$2,500 per year on food that is wasted.
Stop spending money on food only to throw it away.
Prepare only what you need, store food appropriately and use your leftovers.
Hear more about reducing your food waste on our podcast. www.storednaturally.com/reduce-food-waste-save-the-planet
Stop Food Waste Day
Leanne Sternbeck the creator of RADHA Handmade Organics and Naturals is the only person we know who is growing certified organic ingredients to use in the hand made certified organic skincare products she makes. Leanne is literally taking all the values we have about organics and provenance and putting them her in a beautifully hand crafted range of skincare products.
"I make everything from start to finish and every product does contain botanicals that were grown here on the farm in our certified organic gardens. We don't compromise on quality ever." Leanne Sternbeck
Although we commonly like to know where our food comes from we don't generally consider it possible to know where our body care products come from and never that the raw ingredients could be grown the same person making the products!
RADHA Handmade Organics and Naturals - More than just natural ingredients!
https://www.storednaturally.com/blog/gutsy-matters-podcast/from-nature-to-nurture-growing-certified-organic-s/
Gutsy Matters Podcast Smoked Food - Developing a Good Business Idea
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Find out how in our latest podcast episode:
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Jane makes a great point. Plastic comes from fossil fuels and takes huge amounts of energy to create and for the most part we use to fleetingly then dispose of it.
"we have to remember that all the time that it's not just a bit of plastic that you're choosing to dispose or recycle at the end of the day, that piece of plastic. Took vast amounts of energies and chemicals to get out of the ground to make into that for us to use fleetingly and then to discard and the waste management of that short lived material is then gone in a millisecond in an incinerator." Jane Bremmer
While Jane expanded on this in our conversation, she also talked about how the focus about plastic is on waste management and she is calling us to shift our focus to reducing production, even stopping production of the most toxic plastics.
🎧Listen in, it's a great conversation - Gutsy Matters Podcast - episode 27, Global Plastic Problem
https://rfr.bz/f2ldh13
The Global Plastic Problem with Jane Bremmer, National Toxics Network
We talked with Jane Bremmer who is currently the Zero Waste Australia campaign coordinator for the National Toxics Network @NTN. We talked about plastic - literally from the ground up. We hope this episode helps to maintain the momentum behind the plastic 'wake up call'. Jane is adamant that if everyone knew plastic started with fracking, liquid natural gas and oil then everyone would be more concerned about finding ways to live without plastic than they are about plastic waste management. Jane challenges us to realise that our mental image of plastic pollution in the ocean isn't enough, it's a land to ocean problem with great environmental damage, many displaced communities, a string of untold health risks and almost complete absence of regulatory interest. This episode is for you if you are wanting to take your own action on plastic or simple to get a bigger understanding of the scale of the global plastic problem.
Research Foods that Fight Cancer
This is a great interview with Dr Eliza Whiteside about cancer, foods that fight cancer and the empowering actions that people with cancer can take. There is great empathy and compassion in Dr Eliza's work which comes from her first hand understanding of how disempowering a cancer diagnosis is. She is a survivor of Breast Cancer and her experience motivates her research drive to find a more natural way for reducing the risk of cancer, cancer prevention and ultimately be able to treat cancer with food.
Dr Eliza's research into cancer actually began before she experienced cancer herself, her PhD looked at the changes in the gene pathways and gene expression when a cancer forms.
When she experienced cancer herself she found that cancer patients (including herself) aren't concerned about the gene expression instead they're completely focused on how they can survive the diagnosis and thrive through the treatment and afterwards.
Now her research focuses on developing a really good evidence base for a natural intervention for cancer. Her dream would be a clinical trail for the natural compounds that could be proven to be successful in treating cancer.
Listen to our latest issue of Gutsy Matters Podcast on your favourite podcast player, including spotify, apple and google.
Read the whole article here: https://rfr.bz/f2gikdj
The Art of Herbal Apothecary - Gutsy Matters Podcast episode
Modern day herbal apothecary with Krista Bjorn @ramblingtart. Her energy is contagious and her story is unique. After moving to Australia for the love of a wonderful man she had to learn to live in our dry, challenging climate and hasn't she adapted! Now growing her personal medicine cabinet, growing their own food and caring for a menagerie of farm animals - she's certainly settled in. We had a wonderful time talking with Krista, she's so much fun. When you'll listen you'll hear the kind of woman that can handle anything so long as she can get outdoors and in touch with nature. She'll inspire you too.
🎧Listen on Apple, Spotify or your fav podcast player.
🌐use this link to find references and recipes - https://rfr.bz/f2e8lti
The Science of and Solutions to Food Waste
Our latest episode tackles food waste before it gets to our homes! It's Earth Day today and while we're all doing our best in our homes to reduce waste it's great to know that there is progress being made at the agricultural and food processing levels to reduce food waste.
Polly has great enthusiasm for her work and for creating valuable products from fresh food that never makes it to market as well as parts of crops that aren't considered food in the first place!
We hope you enjoy this conversation.
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.https://www.storednaturally.com/blog/gutsy-matters-podcast/science-of-solutions-to-food-waste/
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