Have you ever wasted food?

I couldn't agree more with you. I do have to say shamefully however, yes we do waste sometimes. My children can be very picky eaters at times. All along telling me how hungry they are only to nibble on the food I place before them. I try very hard thow to use up everything I make even in different meals the next day. When we go out however, it is usually a special occasion. So we bag up the left overs and save it for the next meal. I am glad to see some that are not so willing to waste.

I, too, hate wasting food, however, when my husband was young, his mother and grandmother would load his plate to overflowing and urge him to be a member of the Clean Plate Club. Today, he is 5' 4" tall, weighs in at a new low of 273 and is losing weight only because he is disabled and cannot load his plate the way he was taught.

I prepare good, healthy meals and serve him one reasonable sized serving keeping his calorie count at about 1800 for the day.

Due to his initial habits, he has diabetes, clogged arteries that required five bypasses, a wrecked lymph system because when he got a heart cath, he also got a massive infection in his leg that required extensive surgery. That came from his diabetes.

So, yes, if everyone is sensible in their eating habits fine, but unfortunately the Clean Plate Club still reigns in some homes.

I don't like wasted food either never have. I felt the same way you did. To many people in this world are starving to wast food. I normally eat once a day and what I can't finish I save for later to eat or I give it to my dogs. When I go out to eat what I can't finish I have it boxed up and taken home to for later.

I think many of us here have been guilty of wasting food. I'm sure I have. I don't eat very much so sometimes I do waste food. Well, I don't know if I'd call it "waste" because if the food is suitable for my pets, I would give them some. Otherwise, they go in the fridge and someone else eats it.

I almost always bring my extra food home with me.
I keep leftovers.
I scrap every last bit out of the pan or bowl.
I was taught not to waste. I have seen people throw away enormous amounts of food, even in their own home and I really think it is terrible.
Ever since I was a kid and we'd go to my grandma's for dinners and other people would take so much food and than not eat it. Why take so much if it is not going to be eaten.
Course back than they had pigs, so the pigs got it. But still.
I was always talk never take more than you know you can eat. You can always come back for seconds.
And eating out. They give so much food. Of course bring the rest home. Sometimes you can get another one or two full meals out of it.
People are just wasteful.

I also do not like wasting food. I know the situation of other people who are not fortunate enough to have the food that they want on their table.

They just 'make-do' with what they have. Not only that, they have to make sure that the food will be enough for a family of eight or at times, more than that.

As for me, I try to finish my food and am also very conscious about the amount of food I eat... If I know I will not be able to finish it, I asked for it to be wrapped and eaten the next day.

Yes, i agree with you about wasteing food. Its just not right. I wonder why those people didnt tell them not to give the rice or at least take it with them. I do the same as you. I take home what i cant eat there. I really hate holloween time when people carve the pumpkins. Most those pumpkins get wasted by the people not doing anything with the pumpkin afterwards. My sister and her kids used to do the pumpkin thng at holloween time but she would bring it in afterwards and make pumpkin pies and everything. In my city here they had a 1,000 lb. pumpkin and lifted it up so many stories. Then dropped it. I saw that and just thought what a waste. Do you realize how much food could have been made just from that one huge pumpkin? A regular size one makes a lot as it is.

I do, also, find it painfully ignorant when people don't eat what they put on their plate. It's highly disrespectful socially and economically. I've seen people who starve for days at a time working weeks and weeks just to be able to provide a little sustenance for their family. It is heartbreaking.

I see this happen too. If I know there is something that comes with my meal that I don't like, I ask them not to serve it. I still pay the same price, but I feel better knowing that I am not going to waste anything.

Very littl eof our food gets wasted as we feed scraps to out pet dog, cat, rabbit and ducks. Most other things go in the compost heap. really it's only bones that go in the bin in our house