Just Eat It

We had a great turnout for the showing of 'Just Eat It', an excellently produced Canadian film about food waste.

After the showing (punctuated by a slow internet connection!) we had a great discussion about the general problem of food waste, and we had a lot of concern about the waste throughout the food chain: food producers who waste what they know the grocery stores won't take, at food processors, at the grocery store, restaurants, as well as from our own homes. We learnt that households are responsible for discarding 25% of what they buy, which is a shocking waste of money, let alone food.

We concluded that we could probably do little to change what happens in the food chain further up, even though we were very concerned about it. However, things we could do included: menu planning, being creative with leftovers, cooking for friends when we have a glut of a particular item, sharing bargain purchases between households (whether from grocery stores, or direct from the producers), and participating in Fruit Share Steinbach, to glean produce that would otherwise go to waste.

Enjoy the film, refer it to friends - and see if it changes your eating habits!

You may also be interested in "The Gleaners and I", a 2000 French documentary by Agnes Varda. [Official Selection at 2000 Cannes Film Festival, and eighth best documentary film of all time according to a 2014 Sight and Sound poll.]