Stop Food Waste Day digital cookbook and other food waste resources

Happy Stop Food Waste Day (April 27, 2022)! To raise awareness of Stop Food Waste Day, a digital food waste cookbook for home cooks has been published. It features recipes from 45 Compass Group chefs across 30 countries. These recipes give a second life to ingredients that most commonly go to waste in home kitchens, including stale bread, bruised fruit & vegetables, and discarded peels. This food waste cookbook can be downloaded as a PDF at: https://www.stopfoodwasteday.com/en/cookbook.html

Other valuable food waste resources can be accessed here: www.stopfoodwasteday.com

Compass Group US introduced Stop Food Waste Day in 2017 before going global in 2018.

In addition, see these 15 tips for reducing food waste and becoming a Food Hero from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

https://www.fao.org/fao-stories/article/en/c/1309609/

Finally, the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), ReFED and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have released a report detailing how U.S. lawmakers can take action to reduce food waste in the 2023 Farm Bill. See below URL to download a copy of this new report.

Opportunities to Reduce Food Waste in the 2023 Farm Bill (Report)

Published by greengrass50

My name is Christine McCullum-Gomez, PhD, RDN. I am a registered dietitian nutritionist with expertise in environmental nutrition, food and nutrition policy, food and nutrition security, food justice, chronic disease prevention, regenerative & organic agriculture, and sustainable healthy dietary patterns. Currently, I serve on the Editorial Review Board and as a Column Editor for the Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition. I live in Bogota, Colombia with my husband, two teenagers (boy-girl twins), and our dog Honey. My website is: www.sustainablerdn.com. You can follow me on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/cmccullumgomez/

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