A timely challenge?-The Globe and Mail thinks so

In today's Globe and Mail (Monday, January 31), a professor at University of Guelph wrote an article about food costs for 2013. Though 2012 saw a slight dip in the price of food, 2013 will see a rise in food prices particularly fresh fruit & vegetables and fresh meat.

He predicts we will see more Canadians using food banks and  more families should be employing food planning techniques and wasting less food. The research claims that 38% of food is wasted at restaurants and the home.

Initially this seemed high, but then I reflected on the food in our house. Some times I 'plan' to make certain meal during the week, or buy fresh foods on a whim and don't use them. I had a  look in the cupboard and see all those dry goods just sitting there in the back of the shelves...awaiting the day I will actually make that Thai Green Curry from the newspaper in 2010!! (I haven't forgotten about you!!)

To start of the challenge (tomorrow), I will inventory the cupboards and try to use up things we have in the house. I will try to stick to meal plans, even on those nights I crawl in from work and think "man, Little Caesars is looking good right about now...".

Happy New Year everyone! Here's to wealth and health.