As Americans we throw out enough food each year to fill up Rose Bowl Stadium every day. I repeat – our wasteful habits are enough to fill a 90,000 seat stadium with uneaten food every. single. day. That’s a problem – a huge, outrageously out of control problem that we need to get in check…
Enter – the Beef Checkoff’s 30 Day Food Waste Challenge.
Waste Less with the 30 Day Food Waste Challenge
They say it can take just twenty-one days to form a new habit. If they are correct, then the 30 Day Food Waste Challenge is a great way to reform current habits and get started on the path to reduced food waste. The challenge offers simple solutions to common food wasting conundrums, as well as delicious recipe ideas.
How the Challenge Works
The challenge begins with five days of assessing your food wasting situation, providing a baseline to track progress. Once you’ve got your baseline, it’s time to challenge yourself with twenty days of actionable tips, useful printables, and simple tasks. The final five days are reserved to reassess your food wasting situation and compare it to the baseline discovered in the first five days.
The 30 Day Food Waste Challenge has everything a good challenge should – self-assessment to help track progress, the tools needed to succeed, and reevaluation to see how far you’ve come. And did I mention the best news? The best news is that the 30 Day Food Waste Challenge and everything it provides is all FREE!
So, what say you? Are you ready to take the challenge? If so, click HERE to get signed up, and read on for some exciting news.
You’re Invited
Once you’ve accepted the 30 Day Food Waste Challenge, you’re invited to join me in the 30 Days to Less Food Waste group on Facebook.
I know my easily distracted self pretty well. And I know that if I want to hit my food wasting goals, I am going to need to be held accountable. That’s where you come in. 30 Days to Less Food Waste will be a place for us to hold each other accountable and to share trials, triumphs, recipes, and words of encouragement as we navigate the challenge together.
The group is open now, and the real action will start on Monday, October 24, 2016. So if you, like me, are looking for some food wasting accountability, or maybe you just want to help hold me accountable – click HERE to join 30 Days to Less Food Waste.
Next Time on Food Saver Friday
Halloween will soon be upon us. And from the looks of social media, there is already a plethora of pumpkins gracing doorsteps across the country. Stay tuned next time for some brilliant ways repurpose pumpkins their door greeting décor duties are done.
In the meantime if you have questions or ideas for future Food Saver Friday topics, feel free to leave them here in the comments, or shoot me an email using the Contact Me page. And if you’ve missed any of the food saving goodness, click here to catch up.
Hello! I’m Terryn – the wife, mother, food safety enthusiast, Stormy Kromer fanatic who has slightly (okay, a lot) random tendencies, dabbles in photography, and shares (maybe a little too much) here at FFB.