Leftovers

    

                                  FOOD WASTE 

1.INTRODUCTION

         I do not like to waste anything at all. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day. What about you? How many of you eat the leftovers? Maybe not all of you because people think that it is gross or disgusting to eat something that has been cooked some our ago. For me, it is inconceivable to throw it away and since I have been doing some research for over a month, I can tell you that this is one of the most important factors in food waste. Therefore, I want to present you all three ways to show you all why we should eat leftovers: 1) You can cook cool dishes with them, 2) That food could be used to feed the world's population and 3) Leftovers that are thrown away, radiate CO2 and methane gases.

2.COOK COOL DISHES

         Now-a-days there are thousands of different recipes that can be made with a few products or with a small amount of each ingredient but a big variety of them. For example, I come from Spain and there is a very typical dish called Cocido and it is made up by chickpeas, potatoes, chorizo, prosciutto, many different kinds of meats, carrots and for the bravest ones, spicy sauce but that one is not very common. After the day we eat Cocido, the mothers usually cook croquettes, soups, different kinds of stew, purée with the chickpeas, mashed potatoes, etc. As you can see, this easy traditional dish, which is cheap, can give a lot of delicious alternatives food dishes for the next days.

3.FEED THE WORLD

          To say that the world is growing in population is not new for anybody. But what you might haven't heard yet is that while this is happening, our food resources are decreasing, as Marcel Dicke said during his speech in TED. The most important cause is that food waste is increasing harshly. In recent studies, made by the some researchers, they found out that leftovers are the biggest problem within food waste and they also said that the leftovers can be eaten until four days after been cooked therefore, if you want to change this situation but you refuse to eat the leftovers, bring them to the lunchrooms for poor people because they really need that food.

4.LEFTOVERS RADIATE GASES

Leftovers that are not eaten and thrown away radiate gases such as CO2 and different methane gases. In fact, you can test that in your own house by keeping the trash for three days and you will see how much it stinks. And now, talking straight-forwardly, researchers have found that food waste has a big impact on the heat-trapping gasses we release into the environment. They also said that the leftovers produced the 30% of all the gases that contaminate the environment. 

5.CONCLUSION 

If we realise that these easy three-steps must have to be applied in each and every house in the world, we will feel better because we will be giving a chance to the next generations to live in a flawless planet as the one we are living now-a-days plus, our pollution will decrease causing less illnesses and finally, and as a result of the decrease of pollination, our world will become more beautiful.

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