Food wasting? It's a no! Being trained by typical African parents, I was made to believe that being wasteful is a sin. My parents don't care if this is scriptural or not, but that's their own belief, and you must abide by it.Now, I am thinking if most African parents have this same belief too because I have had stories by my friends on how their parents discipline them any time they waste food as well.
My mother will remind you that the day you waste her food, you will be starved for your next meal for wasting food, and she did it to me and my siblings when we acted carelessly over food in our house. It was a practical lesson for us to know that she meant every line of her words over food waste.
The time I wasted food was way back as a child when I didn't understand what it takes to get food at home, but thanks to my parents, who reset my brain to doing the right thing. I have seen some families who lacked food to survive. I saw the hell they go through to feed, and when they eat, it's not even healthy enough because they don't have enough resources for that. Imagine having enough food and wasting it when some have nothing to eat. Sincerely, that's like cruel. Now that I grow up to know better and have my own family, the training I received from both my mom and grandma still remains so fresh in my memory, and I implement it every now and then in my home.
There are a couple of things I do to avoid wasting food. Now, I am the type that loves buying my food stuff in bulk, but I do not buy the type that spoils easily in a large quantity, basically to avoid waste. I really hate to waste food. This is not about saving my money, but I see it as a bad habit to waste. While cooking my food, I make sure to measure it instead of just going by the flow. I will rather cook smaller quantities that are too much to have left overs. My kids and my sister living with me already know my policy at home; you dare not waste my food. My waste bin is not for dumping my supposed meal, and having left-overs by any mistake means keeping them at the refrigerator to use the next day.
Sometimes, the left-over loose taste after staying a while in the fridge for one reason or another, but I don't hesitate to add up some ingredients to it and make it look so fresh for consumption.
For vegetables, it's a bit difficult to preserve, and if I am not careful, it gets wasted. For instance, this pumpkin leaf below, I don't put in the refrigerator for a long time; otherwise, it will lose its greenish color and the ingredients within. What I do is get a newspaper 🗞️, wrap it, and keep it either in my kitchen slap or in the refrigerator for preservation.
Same applicable to other vegetable leaves. When it comes to fruit vegetables, I make sure to refrigerate them; otherwise, they get spoiled. Having a refrigerator or freezer helps me avoid wasting a lot; however, when I didn't have this tool, I made sure to buy it in small quantities. This made me always visit the market regularly, but it's better than wasting.
Wrapping up, I do not like being wasteful, and I don't support it either, even if you have it in abundance. The little tips I shared above are the practices and tips I observe in order to preserve my food. I hope you find it useful.
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Exactly! one shouldn't waste food especially in this era. My own bi say give me that Ji na beans make i chop, I'm salivating here. What a temptation.
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It's one of the reasons why I bought a fridge when I decided to start renting. When it was just me, it was easy to actually manage how much food I eat, but now, I cannot control that since it's not just me. The economy should actually make one prudent. It's only a provider that mostly knows the pain of providing.
Exactly
..since I started providing for my family as well...I see wasting as a sin because this money is hard to come by...so why the waste
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I hate wasting food so much my parents too though to me that wasting food it's unrespectful for those who starve, if I have some leftover I create new recipes, being creative help to don't waste food.
Yea .being creative with our left overs makes sense
Interesting.
I think instead of wasting food, these way are better
Sure..it is
I think wasting food is a sin and we should not waste food. Many people starving for food and if we waste food, it's kind of inhumanic.
My mother also follow the same procedure like to not waste food.
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Honestly it's just inhuman to waste when some people have nothing to do
Not being wasteful is not a hard work to achieve
Wrapping in newspaper assists alot to keep the veggies fresh , also sealing them in air tight bags like Apple, potatoes increases their shelf life. Glad to know as you fallow the same procedure, I remember my mom use to add all the left over meals in rice and cook them so tasty 💙
That's a good preservative tactic
Wow..your mum is a great home manager 🤗
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That food is a beautiful sight to behold 😋, I want to have a taste of that.
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Indeed..I wish you can have a taste
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