Well, in my case it's desire vs reality ... (or the fallacy of good intentions)

... one desire is to eat healthily and cook my own food, so I used to buy in stuff with the great intention of cooking stuff ...

... and then I'd end up getting stuck at work, going out with colleagues for a leaving do, going out to one gaming group and eating there, having friends back for my gaming group and eating takeaway along with them ... then at the weekend off to a convention or festival or committee meeting, or just eating junk food and ready meals .. and suddenly it's a week or two later and the nice red mince meat has gone brown and with a green iridescent sheen, the milk has gone lumpy, there's green stuff growing on the bread etc. and it gets thrown out. Rinse, repeat.

Plus each time I hit a big supermarket, I'd check out the "going out of date today" area, and if they had a good selection of stuff, buy two or three days worth ... and then usually have at least one or two of those days when I'm eating other stuff, so I'd end up paying as much for the one day of actual food I ate (and often food bad for me) as if I'd just bought it full price with a longer expiration date, and throwing the rest away.

It's a terrible wasteful way of living ... and one I will do my best not to return to after this diet.

Oh, Annie. I work in a high school (grades 9-12), and I hate to tell you how much perfectly good food we throw away every day. Not, mind you, food that is not served, but food the kids take and throw at each other. today, just walking from one end of the cafeteria to the other I passed a dozen (I counted) tangerines and that was after the sweeping up before the last two lunch periods of the day.

I cannot tell you how it sickens me to think of the money we are wating on these kids, who would much rather throw their food at each other than eat it.

I'm pleased t see that the comments in the article are all negative and suggesting the daft bint who wrote it should grab a clue.

And I can see trouble in her future. If she can't say no to her kids at 2 & 4 then I hate to see what they're going to turn out like when they're older (hasn't she seen supernanny?)