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October 1 - October 31, 2023
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Melissa Auchter

The Hartford

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 373 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    27
    meatless or vegan meals
    consumed

Melissa's actions

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Smaller Portions

Reduced Food Waste

I will use smaller plates and/or serve smaller portions when dishing out food.

COMPLETED 20
DAILY ACTIONS

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Reduce Animal Products

Plant-Rich Diets

I will enjoy 1 meatless or vegan meals each day of the challenge.

COMPLETED 23
DAILY ACTIONS

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Reduce Food Waste

Reduced Food Waste

I will keep a daily log of food I throw away during Drawdown Ecochallenge, either because it went bad before I ate it, I put too much on my plate, or it was scraps from food preparation, and commit to reducing my food waste throughout the challenge.

COMPLETED 22
DAILY ACTIONS

Participant Feed

  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
    While dishing food out, we tend to load our plates with more than we need. Using smaller plates helps to mitigate this. Aside from the environmental benefits, what other benefits might come from eating/serving smaller portions?

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    Melissa Auchter 10/11/2023 10:09 AM
    Eating less, losing weight, chucking the Tums, changing habits :)

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    Melissa Auchter 10/09/2023 7:47 AM
    I'm excited to say that instead of throwing out the bread ends, which is typically what happens at our house, I toasted them up and ate them with peanut butter and jelly. It is a small thing that I didn't think about before I started doing this challenge. So I didn't waste food and I had a meatless meal. WooHoo! :)