One Man's Table Scraps, Another's Meal

We had David Giles, a food activists with Food not Bombs, come give a presentation to our class about when food becomes waste. The three categories of why food is generally thrown away are out of convenience, health risks, and obsolescence. 

25 close friends and I celebrate a going away party for my roommate at Buca Di Beppo's yesterday. My experience at Buca di Beppos’ definitely fell in the category of convenience. Our eyes were bigger than our stomach and we were ravenous for food when we first arrived. The recommended portions listed on the menu were a large size feeds four to six people and a regular feeds two to four. We deviated from these recommendations and ordered a large alfredo for only 3 people. Of course, we filled up on the house bread and oil before our meal even arrived and thus only had a few spoonfuls of our mammoth mountain meal. When the waitress came with the doggie bags for us to take home the leftovers, we decided not to take them home. Someone mentioned how the oil and cream weirdly separate when you let the sit in the fridge. Thus, we were all sated and couldn’t imagine the thought of more food at that moment. I felt guilty for this because I was now educated by David to know that there is ways to responsibly give out my “wasted” food. But, alas, I didn’t act responsibility and ended up letting perfectly good food enter the waste stream.