2026-01-03

Happy New Year! Here's hoping that 2026 will be better than
2025...although that is looking pretty unlikely geopolitically...sigh.

I saw on social media that there is kind of a challenge going around
for January which is to not go to the grocery store and to eat the
entire month of January on whatever you have already in your
pantry/fridge/freezer.

I think this is a pretty interesting challenge and although it
won't meaningfully end food insecurity issues or hunger...it is a
good way to highlight just how much food waste there is in developed
countries. How many times have we thrown out food that we just
didn't get around to eating?

I'm afraid that it is probably a lot more than we would like to
admit. Hopefully the January no-grocery-buy challenge can change
some habits, if just a little bit around grocery shopping sustainably.