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Pittsburg, Kansas | Well as long as we throw away the buns, they can keep growing wheat (I also have wheat to sell as a landlord, but we usually grow soft wheat which is more of a pastry flour although they use it some to blend for protein reduction in bread and multi-purpose flour).
I grew up in a family that promoted not wasting things. So it was initially hard for me to not eat something and "waste" it. Or to not clean up my plate.
But at 100 pounds too heavy I changed my mind about waste. I could either waist it in the garbage, or I could waist it on my waist line, fat belly and fat liver, and poor health. So I changed my definition of waste to realizee that putting my health in the toilet by eating certain things I was creating way worse waste than throwing away surplus food.
Though my wife and are still very conservative on the subject and try not to waste things unnecessarily. It is just not in our nature or desire.
The other thing that caused my view of waste to change has to do with modern society and just the way things are. At Braums they sometimes have a "Bag of Burgers" of five hamburgers for ten dollars or thereabouts. Wife and I would order two bags, I would eat the meat off 5 burgers, she three and we would take a couple burger patties home. That is a lot of buns to throw away. I didn't like that very much. So one time I ordered them without the bun. They dutifully gave us ten burger patties with a pickle slice each in a plastic box. So we threw away ten plastic boxes. The boxes likely cost Braums more than what the buns would. Beyond the cost, I figured two things. Would I rather support a wheat farmer? Or a plastic manufacturer? (the burgers with bun were simply wrapped in paper). I decided I would rather support a wheat farmer with my waste. Of course the best thing would have been to request them to just put 5 patties in each plastic box. That would have been logical and conservative. But there is no such button on the cash register, so it confuses the minimum wage earners behing the counter. I have been down that road also with a line of people waiting behind me.
I did find a use for the buns though. Now I take them home (in the warmer months) and feed them to our catfish in the pond that happily devour them.
Most of the time we order a tripple quarter pound cheeseburger (wife eats two patties, I eat my three and one of hers usually). That we do get in a plastic box without the bun.
My ideas on what is being wasteful, for my healths benefit, has changed. Better for the waste to be in the trash rather than around my waist (and worse yet, in my organs). My diabetes is in remission (and off all medication which is another savings of waste) because of my change of habbits, which includes now some food waste. Of course at home, we waste almost nothing. We just don't buy it or make it or have it in the house. Only eating out is where our waste is most evident. And I always clean my plate when eating at home, because I only put on it what and the amount I want.
Edited by John Burns 10/26/2024 23:29
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