{"id":2292,"date":"2022-09-18T23:14:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T23:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2022-09-18T23:14:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T23:14:02","slug":"on-nutrition-what-to-do-with-leftovers-before-they-go-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2292","title":{"rendered":"On Nutrition: What to do with leftovers before they go bad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am aware that some people, for one reason or another, do not eat leftovers. That would not be our household, even before these days of high food prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s estimated that we Americans waste 30% to 40% of the food we purchase. That equates to 219 pounds of groceries that each of us tosses in the garbage every year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. And two-thirds of that food is a fruit, vegetable or dairy product that ends up in a landfill instead of nourishing a body with essential nutrients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What can we do when vegetables go bad before we eat them? Eat them before they go bad \u2026 duh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many foods can also be frozen for future use. I really don\u2019t like overripe bananas. So I freeze them, three to a bag, and they\u2019re ready for my next batch of banana bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowellsun.com\/2022\/09\/18\/on-nutrition-what-to-do-with-leftovers-before-they-go-bad\/\">Lowell Sun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am aware that some people, for one reason or another, do not eat leftovers. That would not be our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}