Spatula Diaries: Wasting away

“I heard from many of you last week on last week’s blog about ways to save money on food in 2012, one of which was simply to eliminate waste by creatively using everything in the fridge,” writes 225 food blogger Maggie Heyn Richardson. “Thanks for the feedback. Here’s more on the topic of waste: Most of us aren’t surprised to hear that we throw away too much food in the U.S., but I was awestruck by the type and volume after watching the Food Network’s The Big Waste Sunday night. The show used the network’s emblematic cooking competition format to reveal the jarring amount of edible foodstuffs discarded daily. Chefs Bobby Flay and Michael Symon and Chefs Anne Burrell and Alex Guarnaschelli were asked to ferret out rejected produce, dairy items, baking staples and more and turn these safe and usable elements into dinner for 100.” Find out more about wastefulness and how to reduce it in this week’s Spatula Diaries.