{"id":60847,"date":"2018-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/01\/09\/livegreen-food-resolution\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T17:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T22:14:56","slug":"livegreen-food-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/01\/09\/livegreen-food-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"LiveGreen: Food resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Did you know that around 40 percent of food in the United States is never eaten?  That&#8217;s nearly 300 pounds per person, per year. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s absolutely crazy to consider that on average a family of four throws away $1,500 worth of food each year &#8212; even crazier when you consider one in every eight Americans doesn&#8217;t have enough food to eat.  <\/p>\n<p>Eating that food instead would be like taking home an extra paycheck while saving you a couple trips to the store.  Eating that food can be good for your personal health, and it definitely helps the health of the planet. (There&#8217;s that triple bottom line again.)<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few eye-opening stats, courtesy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/\">Natural Resources Defense Council<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20 percent of the food we buy goes bad before we eat it.\n<li>90 percent of us throw food away too soon, thinking it&#8217;s gone bad or finding the expiration date on the package confusing.\n<li>There is more food in landfills than anything else. It contributes more to climate pollution than all the cars in the state of Georgia.\n<li>All food production requires water, whether it&#8217;s a whole food or processed.  Did you know you&#8217;d have to run your shower for\n<ul>\n<li>42 minutes to equal the water needed for one pound of bananas;\n<li>90 minutes for just four ounces of chocolate\n<li>104 minutes for a pound of chicken; and\n<li>A whopping 370 minutes for a pound of beef?<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not to mention the other resources used (largely fuel) to procure-plant-grow-harvest-transport-package-transport, just to get it to you.<\/p>\n<p>Food waste is not an easy issue, but there are many ways to tackle the problem and many resources to help you save. Throughout the year we will cover a lot of these so you can save your hard-earned money and reduce waste.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start right now.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s not surprising that food waste (all waste, actually) increases during the holidays, did you know that the second most wasteful time is January? The University of Vermont <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/new-years-resolution-many-households-buy-more-food-january-during-holidays-180953779\/\" target=\"_blanK\" rel=\"noopener\">found that resolutions drive people to purchase healthy food &#8212; but they still purchase the same amount of non-healthy\/junk food as before.<\/a> This leads to more food waste.<\/p>\n<p>If you are one of the many people with a resolution that involves food, <a href=\"http:\/\/livegreennebraska.com\/food-for-thought\/\">be honest<\/a> with yourself. Then ease into changes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savethefood.com\/tips\/10-easy-tips-for-meal-planning\">meal plan<\/a>, and follow a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savethefood.com\/tips\/shopping-guidelines\">shopping plan<\/a> to help you achieve your personal health goals, while saving your money, and using less natural resources.  Mistakes will still happen. 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