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13 Mar 2012, 4:20 am
I don't like wasting food, though not paranoid about it. Think of it that way: nothing is "wasted" in the food chain. The earth is teeming with life everywhere, all the food you didn't eat got eaten by other stuff, like bacteria or fungi, which break them down to basic elements and get recycled into the food chain again, eventually. 
The food you tossed away become feasts to other organisms. Isn't life amazing? In our city food scraps go into compost bin, which the city make into manure and sell them. Which means the cycle is even shorter.
I do admit there are some processed food that never ever seem to go bad. You probably shouldn't eat much of those anyway.
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13 Mar 2012, 7:34 am
If there's a microwavable meal in the fridge what is supposed to be eaten by tomorrow or today and nobody's going to get to eat it (for various reasons like another meal is being planned), I start worrying about it and I can't stop thinking about it until we find a solution of what to do with the microwavable meal without it being chucked out, like offering it to another family member or friend or whatever.
Or if there's a whole pack of yoghurts that have been forgotten to be eaten, and then somebody finds them and sees they're out of date and chucks them away, I spend the rest of the night feeling bad for them.
And when I finish eating a pack of crisps, I always have to double check in the corners of the packet to see if there are small crisps lurking in the corners, before I put it in the bin.
Could this be like an OCD thing?
This is me all over. I wouldn't say I had a "fear" as such, but I really do regret wasted food, and I feel genuine sorrow for it when it is wasted, as it hasn't fulfilled it's purpose. It's even worse when it's meat products, as that animal had it's life taken in order to become food, and the least we can do is show respect by not letting it die in vain. But it can be any food really, and any amount. People are always telling me it's okay to leave it and I shouldn't feel obliged to eat it (I often eat peoples' leftovers too, as long as I'm not grossed out by the person), but I feel much happier knowing that food hasn't been wasted. I hate food waste.
I also lick all the sauce and moisture off of my dinner plate after a meal, otherwise if I left it I would feel sorry for it.
I don't think with me it's an OCD trait, just that I was brought up from a very early age not to be wasteful, and I may have taken that rule too rigidly over the years. I also believe that I personify food because I'm not good with people and I'm compensating for it by showing greater empathy and attachment to non-living objects, including food. (I know the food was alive, but it's not now).
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