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Throw Out Your Leftovers Day
Letโs face it, thereโs a dark dreary backwater to most our refrigerators that are the province of only the most brave. Traveling here is bound to lead us to the mold-ridden graves of food long forgotten, or if youโre in the US, the Thanksgiving Leftoverโs that are finally ready to meet their doom in the deep grave that is your garbage can. Throw Out Your Leftovers Day reminds you that a clean fridge is a place where healthy food can live.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin
History of Throw Out Your Leftovers Day
Throughout the year thereโs an epidemic, an epidemic of food being stored in the fridge and forgotten as it rots away in its plastic containers and saran wrapped plates.
How it came to pass that leftovers started suffering this fate is multi-leveled and starts with poor shopping and food preparation habits. Preparing the right amount of food for your family or a group of people is a challenge that weโre not often taught to meet, leaving us overcompensating to make sure thereโs enough for everyone. When we instead wind up with too much, we store it in the fridge and forget about it.
The next component is the idea that itโs now โold foodโ, and that it is no longer truly good for consumption or at the very least isnโt as good as โfresh foodโ made that day. This is obviously a fallacy, just take a look at pizza! Itโs the best tomorrow food leftover ever! Throw Out Your Leftovers Day is the perfect opportunity to not only get rid of the old food stashed in the back of your refrigerator, and the habits that led to it being there, to begin with!
How to celebrate Throw Out Your Leftovers Day
Start out with the obvious, clear out all the old food from your refrigerator and start with a clean slate. Once youโve gotten this process in
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