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That takes the cake! We present to you some solutions. Really easy and doable ones, some of which you might have already thought of yourself. Because just as cooking and consuming a balanced meal requires common sense, managing leftovers also needs large dollops of the same ingredient. |
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1. Take and Give As you must have figured out yourself by now, if there is a ‘link’ between those who have surplus food, and those who don’t have enough, there shall be no wastage. Either form a group or join voluntary one which already do so. One such global unit is ‘Food Not Bombs,’ a totally volunteer-run movement. It organises community meals for the needy made out of discarded food that it’s workers collect from bakeries, and restaurants. |
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| 2. Innovate and imbibe This is what our grandmothers did, in an era when there were no refrigerators at their disposal. So cooked rice was transformed into a spicy mixed dish for breakfast, the lentils would be added in the dough, and the vegetables left in the container would be turned into tasty fried snacks. Try them. If you are not particularly fond of these traditional fares, check out the modern day solution for tackling food waste.  A website called lovefoodhatewaste. org stocks some innovative recipes that use leftovers to tickle taste buds. This was launched as a part of a campaign to reduce waste food in the UK. It has, on record, helped almost two million households to reduce their food waste, amounting to savings worth almost £300 million and preventing 137,000 tonnes of waste from rotting away. |
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| 3. Fuel it up Using cooked food to cook more food sounds like a great idea. And for once, it is as simple as it sounds, thanks to Anand Karve of the Pune-based Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI). He has come up with a bio gas plant, which in place of cowdung, uses a mixture of leftovers. He says while researching for a more efficient bio-gas plant, he began dabbling with sugar and found that it worked better than other ingredients. A viable source of sugar was household foodstuff. Just two kg of such feedstock produces about 500 g of methane, and the reaction is completed within 24 hours. While the conventional biogas systems, using cattle dung, and sewerage, consume about 40 kgs feedstock to produce the same quantity of methane, and require about 40 days to complete the reaction. So food fuel is efficient. It is also extremely cost effective and convenient.
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