reducing kitchen waste

When it comes to going green, I thought our family was doing pretty well. We shop with reusable bags, turn off lights when we aren’t in a room, do laundry and run our dishwasher during ‘off peak’ hours, and eat/shop local. But then I downsized my job, which in turn downsized my salary. That’s when I noticed how much food we were wasting. Like many people I only really thought of waste as I was throwing it out and I had to decide which bin to put it in: the compost bin, the recycling …