{"id":16532,"date":"2011-09-08T07:57:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T11:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=16532"},"modified":"2011-09-08T07:57:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T11:57:20","slug":"what-i-waste-could-feed-another-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/what-i-waste-could-feed-another-family\/","title":{"rendered":"What I waste could feed another family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lesson the other day in how much I waste and what a luxury it is to live in this free and abundant world of ours. \u00a0The other day I was washing vegetables and chopping them for soup, and I had a small compost pile going. \u00a0I chopped fresh garlic, an onion, 2 carrots, 2 celery stalks, fresh green beans and kale. \u00a0I had a chicken thigh in the fridge so I cut the fat and skin off and added it to the soup. \u00a0As it began cooking, I noticed the small pile of veggie peels, the carrot and celery tops, the green bean tips and tough kale ends. \u00a0That would make a good soup in itself, I thought. \u00a0To a third world family, this could make an entire giant soup to feed them for a night. \u00a0I put it in a pot on the stove and added in the chicken fat and skin. \u00a0Forty minutes later it was just as delicious as the main soup. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be more mindful the next time I chop. \u00a0In the meantime, I have a bunny outside who loves the carrot tops and kale ends. \u00a0And now I appreciate what I have so much more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/what-i-waste-could-feed-another-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=What I waste could feed another family&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/what-i-waste-could-feed-another-family\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/what-i-waste-could-feed-another-family\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/what-i-waste-could-feed-another-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=What%20I%20waste%20could%20feed%20another%20family&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/what-i-waste-could-feed-another-family\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lesson the other day in how much I waste and what a luxury it is to live in this free and abundant world of ours. \u00a0The other day I was washing vegetables and chopping them for soup, and I had a small compost pile going. \u00a0I chopped fresh garlic, an onion, 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16534,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16532\/revisions\/16534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}