Love Food, Hate Waste

I cannot not finish a meal; I have been raised to eat up every last grain of rice in my dinner bowl. And my family didn't even do the whole dessert/reward thing. Since I've been in school and cooking for myself more often, not wasting the food that I have is a big concern to me. When I do find the time to go groccery shopping, I try to avoid overloading the shopping cart and only buy things that I know I will be using soon. Nevertheless, my refrigerator and pantry is still filled with foods that I have bought impulsively, and never gotten around to using. Right now, I am looking for good recipe that calls for a lot of sour cream since I have a whole can of it that is expiring soon. Love Food, Hate Waste is a campaign to help raise awareness of how much food is wasted and how we as individuals can plan and prepare food more effectively to eat healthy and avoid wasting food. The campaign has a lot of potential to help people reduce wasting food. You can look for recipes based on a certain ingredient that you want to use, which is sort of a toned down version of supercook. The one problem I have with this approach is that I end up having to go buy more ingredients to make the recipe that is supposed to help me use up the foods that I already have, and now I am left with the new foods that I have to find a use for. Such a vicious cycle. Until I can come up with a better solution, I am going to go bake me some strawberry sour cream bread.