{"id":8354,"date":"2017-11-14T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T00:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/?p=8354"},"modified":"2017-11-14T17:43:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T00:43:04","slug":"new-food-calculator-helps-hosts-reduce-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/2017\/11\/14\/new-food-calculator-helps-hosts-reduce-food-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"This Food Calculator Helps You Reduce Food Waste!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<p>Just in time for\u00a0<span class=\"xn-chron\">Thanksgiving<\/span>, a new digital calculator is taking the guesswork out of portion planning to help hosts reduce the massive amount of food, money and resources that go to waste around the holiday.\u00a0<a class=\"linkOnClick broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.savethefood.com\/guestimator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" include=\"300546945\">The “Guest-imator”<\/a>\u00a0is the latest waste-busting consumer resource from the\u00a0<a class=\"linkOnClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adcouncil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-include=\"300546945\">Ad Council<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"linkOnClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-include=\"300546945\">Natural Resources Defense Council<\/a>‘s\u00a0<a class=\"linkOnClick broken_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.savethefood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" include=\"300546945\">Save The Food<\/a>\u00a0national public service campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<p>“<span class=\"xn-chron\">Thanksgiving<\/span>\u00a0is a time to be grateful, yet it’s often unintentionally wasteful as well,” said NRDC senior scientist\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Dana Gunders<\/span>. “Hosts can have the best intentions, but planning a meal for a large group is still tricky. This calculator can help cooks prepare enough for turkey-cranberry sandwiches the day after the feast, but avoid a stockpile of past-due leftovers a week later.”<\/p>\n<p>Created pro bono by SapientRazorfish, the Guest-imator is designed to eliminate unnecessary over-purchasing, saving consumers money and preventing food waste before it starts.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"linkOnClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K0wYITFUXLk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-include=\"300546945\">VIDEO: See the Guest-imator in action<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The easy-to-use tool allows users to properly plan how much food to buy and serve for holiday gatherings and other large dinners. To use it, hosts plug in the number of guests they expect to have and select the types of dishes they plan to prepare, including mains, sides and desserts. They can also indicate the number of leftover meals desired.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the Guest-imator calculates the amount of each food to prepare (i.e. eight potatoes or a 10-pound turkey), taking into consideration not only the number of portions needed, but the number of dishes offered, and whether the dishes being served are heavy or light. As the host adds or eliminates dishes or guests, the calculator also updates its calculation.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, 6 million turkeys\u2014a value of roughly\u00a0<span class=\"xn-money\">$293<\/span>\u00a0million\u2014ended up in the trash. \u00a0That amount of discarded turkey requires an estimated more than 100 billion gallons of water\u2014enough to supply\u00a0<span class=\"xn-location\">New York City<\/span>\u00a0for 100 days. And when it comes to climate pollution, it wastes emissions equivalent to driving a car across the country 800,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>Year-round in the U.S., up to 40 percent of all food goes uneaten annually, at a cost of\u00a0<span class=\"xn-money\">$218 billion<\/span>. Consumers are responsible for 43 percent of this <a href=\"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/2011\/05\/07\/love-food-hate-waste\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waste<\/a>\u2014more than restaurants, grocery stores or any other single part of the supply chain. It’s a problem that costs the average family of four at least\u00a0<span class=\"xn-money\">$1,500<\/span>\u00a0per year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/2017\/11\/14\/new-food-calculator-helps-hosts-reduce-food-waste\/15951717452_db57fddd28_b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8357\" src=\"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/15951717452_db57fddd28_b-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Guest-imator helps hosts reduce food waste\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>“Consumers want to cut back on food waste, but they aren’t always sure how to do that,” said\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Peter Wagoner<\/span>, Associate Creative Director at SapientRazorfish. “That’s why we zeroed in on meal planning, particularly for the upcoming holidays, and created the Guest-imator. It uses a proprietary algorithm to make sure you don’t prepare too little or too much. Plus, it incorporates a little-known food prep secret: the more dishes you prepare, the smaller each one needs to be. Because guests usually end up sampling multiple things and therefore have less of each.”<\/p>\n<p>Save the Food is aimed at combating food waste from its largest source\u2014consumers. In doing so, Ad Council and NRDC seek to reduce the massive amount of money, water and energy that is wasted when food is thrown out.<\/p>\n<p>“As awareness about <a href=\"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/2016\/02\/26\/understanding-food-expiration-dates-to-reduce-food-waste\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">food waste<\/a> continues to grow, ‘Save The Food’ is becoming a go-to resource for consumers looking to make changes and eliminate waste,” said Ad Council President and CEO\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Lisa Sherman<\/span>. “Our goal with tools like the Guest-imator is to make the guiding principles of food waste reduction accessible to everyone \u2013 from the grandmother who regularly cooks for her extended family, to the young professional who’s hosting his or her first big dinner.”<\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a class=\"linkOnClick broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.savethefood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" include=\"300546945\">SaveTheFood.com<\/a>\u00a0for more tips, tricks and recipes to reduce food waste. You can access the Guest-imator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethefood.com\/guestimator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/new-dinner-party-planning-calculator-can-help-hosts-waste-less-food-this-thanksgiving-300546945.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PR Newswire<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women of Green<\/a>\u00a0is TURNING UP THE VOLUME of the feminine voice on the planet in order to create the world we know is possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for\u00a0Thanksgiving, a new digital calculator is taking the guesswork out of portion planning to help hosts reduce the massive amount of food, money and resources that go to waste around the holiday.\u00a0The “Guest-imator”\u00a0is the latest waste-busting consumer resource from the\u00a0Ad Council\u00a0and\u00a0Natural Resources Defense Council’s\u00a0Save The Food\u00a0national public service campaign. “Thanksgiving\u00a0is a time to be grateful, yet it’s often unintentionally wasteful as well,” said NRDC senior scientist\u00a0Dana Gunders. “Hosts can have the best intentions, but planning a meal for a large group is still tricky. This calculator can help cooks prepare enough for turkey-cranberry sandwiches the day after the feast, but avoid a stockpile of past-due leftovers a week later.” Created pro bono by SapientRazorfish, the Guest-imator is designed to eliminate unnecessary over-purchasing, saving consumers money and preventing food waste before it starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1344,1359,1345],"tags":[2262,2263,2260,2265,2261,8,2264],"class_list":["post-8354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-featured-post","category-health","tag-food-calculator","tag-guest-imator","tag-reduce-food-waste","tag-save-the-food","tag-thanksgiving-leftovers","tag-women-of-green","tag-zero-waste-thanksgiving"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenofgreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}