Know Food Waste OSU

To wrap up the year, we hosted a tie dye with compost event! We made natural dyes with food scraps, like red cabbage and spinach and were able to reach out to a wide range of students about creative ways to reuse food waste. It was a blast and we ended up with some great up-cycled clothing!

Summer is the perfect time for sustainable diy projects! Let us know if you have tried or know of any unique ways to reuse food waste. 🌿

Exciting event coming up!! Join us in celebrating Earth Day on April 21st and learn how to tie dye 🌈 with compost!

Our next seminar will be with Jane Boehm and Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO). Jane is the Food Waste Programs Administrator at SWACO, and she plans to share some insight on understanding food waste in our very own Franklin County.

There will be food! Mark your calendar now!

Sign up to compost with KFW for the Spring semester! 🌱

The spring term sign window to compost with KFW is open NOW until January 31st. Full details about the program can be found on our website. Sign up today with the link in our bio!

“No Snow Fast!” Turning forgotten fall food into unique winter chili topped with homemade cornbread~includes leftover cooked pumpkin from halloween, apples from apple picking - Stephanie Almquist

Using leftover cranberry sauce from Thanksgiving, I made homemade white chocolate orange cranberry cookie bars! - Becca Smith

Leftover pork and beans mixed with egg to make egg muffins - Celeste Miller

Baked flatbread pizza topped with leftover roasted vegetables - Olivia Severyn

Kimbap- Traditional Korean dish made using leftover ham and vegetables - Annabel Kim

Open-face leftover sandwich. Sourdough with mashed potatoes, turkey and gravy! - Lilli Kirk

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Turkey Noodle Soup- made using leftover turkey and vegetables - Annabel Kim

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Transform your leftover stuffing into a delicious waffle🧇 for breakfast! - Ronald Meléndrez

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Annyeong SAY YUM: Korean Inspired Thanksgiving Kimbap. Includes repurposed: baked chicken, mash, roasted asparagus, glazed carrots, mushroom gravy. - Daniel Do

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Stuffing Leftovers Cheese Balls. Try them for a snack when watching a football🏈 or soccer⚽️ game! - Rolando E Choriego

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Leftover mashed potatoes from Thanksgiving can make a great dough! The potatoes act as a stabilizer to make cinnamon rolls or dinner rolls. - Becca Smith

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Waste to taste - Veeramani Karuppuchamy

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Tis the season for holiday spiced banana bread, the perfect use for leftover overripe bananas! - Elizabeth Schafer

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“That’ll do spicely!” sweet spiced leftover halloween pumpkin seeds with all-spice, nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, and ginger - Stephanie Almquist

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“Ripe for Baking” using some leftover ripe bananas to make some banana bread muffins! - Stephanie Almquist

Know Food Waste is announcing our 5th annual photography competition! The theme is Reduce, Reuse & Re-Bake. Send us photos of how you are creatively repurposing leftover food this holiday season!

Use the link in bio to submit entries and to learn more!

Get Baking! 🧑🏽‍🍳

Hope everyone had a spooky Halloween! The other week Know Food Waste and Citation Needed carved pumpkins! We saved all the pumpkin seeds, which were then cleaned, dried out and roasted, to make a delicious and crunchy snack 🎃

Excited for Spooky Season? Come to our next event! We are hosting a Pumpkin carving event this Friday in collaboration with Citation Needed at 4pm outside Howlett Hall!

Mark your calendar for our first general body meeting on Tuesday, October 4th at 5:30 PM in Parker Food Science Building, room 118. We will be hosting a screening of the documentary: Just Eat it. A Food Waste Story. Snacks will be provided!

Know Food Waste is back for the fall semester and we are launching the fall semester composting program!

Sign up with the link in our bio 🌱

A couple weeks ago, Know Food Waste toured the Franklin County Landfill ran by SWACO. It was a fascinating tour and everyone learned so much. Did you know that food waste is the largest category of waste entering the landfill each day?

KFW is hosting seminar with Dr. John Lowrey who is a professor at Northeastern University studying food waste and food donations. He works directly with several Feeding America member Food Banks to understand the explicit and implicit benefits of food donations at retail. Join us to learn more about his impactful work!

Mark your calendars for April 5th at 4pm.

Use the link in our bio to register now!

KFW is hosting seminar with Dr. John Lowery who is a professor at Northeastern University studying food waste and food donations. He works directly with several Feeding America member Food Banks to understand the explicit and implicit benefits of food donations at retail. Join us to learn more about his impactful work!

Mark your calendars for April 5th at 4pm.

Use the link in our bio to register now!

KFW is hosting seminar with Dr. Jessica Vieira who leads Sustainability at Apeel by using data-driven analyses and life-cycle thinking to maximize Apeel’s positive impacts related to climate change and food waste. Join us to learn about food waste prevention strategies inspired by nature! 🌱

Mark your calendars for March 10th at 4pm.

Use the link in our bio to register now!

We are finally announcing this years Food Waste Photo Competition winners!! The judges have gotten back to us and the winners are:

1st place: Elliot Dhuey
2nd place: Aishwarya Badiger
3rd place: Hope Diaz

Honorable Mentions: Katie Williamson and Aria Crawford

Thank you to everyone who participated! All the photos were amazingly creative in showing food that is

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While cooking for thanksgiving a lot of food waste is produced that can often be missed. A lot of the times this waste is things that we didn’t even think we could eat! My family and I like to take leftover potato peel (something we used to throw away) and turn them into yummy potato skin chips! Even though this may not seem like a big difference, it is still diverting waste from being put in the landfill 😁 - Aria Crawford