French Fries: How Reducing the Amount Can Be a Three - Way Win

In places like the U.S. and such, you already know how big the portion sizes are. For example, if someone orders a panini at some restaurants, they might get up to three of them and then a plateful of fries to the side.

People who don't want to waste food might bring it home and store it in their refrigerator to eat later, but your fridge only has limited space, and your stomach space is limited too.

It also impacts your health. If you waste a lot of foods, you're not really that eco - friendly, but if you eat that many fries, you might end up getting a stomachache, or even worse, start getting dietary and weight problems due to increased food intake and not a balanced amount of exercise to go with it. These worries might probably be part of the reason why so much food, in fact about 40 million, go to waste yearly in the U.S. alone.

And not only that much food goes to waste - but it also seriously harms the environment,

and

hard work,

money,

transportation,

fuel,

water,

ingredients,

all of that goes to waste, and we don't even use the surplus of food for something useful all the time, like feeding poor animals and people.

So how will reducing food portion sizes, in particular French fries, create a three-way win?

One way:

The producers are helped by this. They would get to save money, and less need of French fries would cause the investment into healthier ways of making them, maybe such as air - frying instead of deep - frying and getting organic potatoes and freshly peeling them instead of using as many frozen French fries, as some companies use.

Another way:

The customers are also helped by this. This helps reduce the habit of storing things in the fridge and trying to hopelessly finish all the food. Not only that, but it helps create a healthier lifestyle and help them feel better about themselves.

And yet another way:

Finally, this helps the environment as well. It would surely reduce how much food goes to waste since the French fry is such a popular treat and the fuel that pollutes the air transporting these items everywhere.

To conclude, reducing the source of French fry intake can make a big change in how much we waste, how much we pollute, how much we spend, and our health. Ordering the smallest sizes if you have a choice if you have an average or small appetite and campaigning to reduce the amount of these things fast food chains and other places sell would make a big difference in not just ourselves, but the Earth, the producers, and other consumers.

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How Much Food Do American Waste? | Earth.Org