Dana Gunders
Appearances
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
In grocery stores, oftentimes in the produce section, you see this like piles, right? I don't know, it puts us into a headspace. We already want to buy more. Yeah.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
I actually store them in a jar of water in my refrigerator, and I find it helps double, triple the amount of time that cilantro can last.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
Shopping is really where we commit to food, and so we need to be careful not to overbuy. Old school things like shopping lists and meal planning really help. Next, as I tell my friends at the end of dinner... Love your leftovers. They are the only true free lunch, and when you get sick of them, you can move on to number three, which is freeze your food.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
Your freezer is like a magic pause button, and so many things can be frozen that you don't think of. Bread, milk, cheese, and that half jar of pasta sauce you didn't use. Next, use it up. Be sure to shop your fridge before you restock it. And lastly, learn your labels. Best Buy and Enjoy Buy are really just guesstimates of when food is at its best. They're not an indication that it's gone bad.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
I think one of the most important things is to not be all or nothing. You know, if you do a little bit better at managing your food and you one night a week make a choice to use what you have instead of getting takeout, even if you're kind of tired, that literally can avoid that food, that food from going to a landfill and emitting methane. Okay. And we as...
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
Consumers are the largest source of food-going waste in the U.S. So if we don't start to work on this as individuals, we will not make a real dent in this problem. These strategies are not earth-shattering. They're things that many of our parents and grandparents did, and you can be sure that my son is learning them as well.
TED Talks Daily
TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown
Because as we tackle this massive climate crisis, reducing food waste really is the low-hanging fruit. But no matter how sustainably we grow that fruit, It's only a good use of resources and nutrition if we all do our part to make sure that it actually gets eaten.