Kevin Relyea

As a family, I think we waste too much food. A goal we set for this year was to reduce it. For five months, we have been measuring our food waste, by putting it into a Folgers coffee container. On average, it took us 5.6 days to fill it. Our goal for this EcoChallege is to increase this average by 25% (7 days). This will need to be a full family effort to our kids (ages 7 & 3) to put on their plate what they will eat; to my wife and Amy cooking the right amount of food for our meals as well as using what we buy before it goes bad. We plan to continue this challenge for the rest of the year to see if we can maintain these good habits. One caveat: our food waste does not include compostable food. We tried to measure it, but it proved too difficult.