I used to work at a bakery (chain) and I would have such a heavy heart after closing. We could not keep any of the cupcakes overnight and had to throw everything out each day. I kid you not, some nights we would throw away over 100 cupcakes. Not to mention the cookies, brownies, and frostings that were past the "best by" date. The company would donate leftovers twice a week, but that still meant 5 days a week of throwing away 40+ lbs of food waste. I really do hope companies find alternatives for reducing food waste and/ or donating leftovers to shelters or charities. :)
as someone who works in fast food, i want to mention: if you're going to deny single use utensils and straws, tell the cashier before they hand it to you. i have customers hand their straw back to me, but for health and pandemic reasons i have to throw it in the trash. it would be less wasteful if you get one to keep it in your car or wherever 👍🏻
I don’t purchase drinks when eating fast food. When my family members do, I save plastic cups to reuse to start seeds. The tall ones are great for tomatoes. I start with a little soil, and as the stem grows, I keep adding more soil. This encourages the plants to grow a strong root system, which makes robust tomato plants.
Ex McDonald's employee here! I worked at a McD's restaurant in Denmark, so please keep in mind that different countries = different procedures/rules etc. - regardless, here's my experience on this topic: 1: the AMOUNT OF WASTE is so much more than you'd think as a customer. I worked at a relatively small restaurant, but we probably filled an entire container of mixed waste (trash bags from the restaurant containing food and packaging) DAILY. This is not even considering the 5 big trashcans (per day) filled with food waste from the kitchen and food that didn't get ordered fast enough. Also, EVERYTHING is packaged in plastic, even if you don't see it. 2: speaking of food waste... we had to throw food away if it didn't get used within like 5 minutes (depending on the product), we'd have piles of perfectly fine burgers laying there, waiting to be wasted. It's especially heartbreaking if you think about all the cows getting killed just to be thrown in the trash :( 3: they simply don't care. McDonald's care about numbers (money & the number of seconds spent serving each customer). Sorry for my rant lol, if some of you have any other questions please let me know, I'd love to answer
For me, I use fast food mostly for the times where I feel like I need comfort food but also want to avoid meat/animal products. I don’t really want to buy all the ingredients to make vegan burgers (so much packaging!) just because I crave it every once in a while. Just never get sides/a drink and you can avoid most of the packaging!
Haven’t had fast food since November 2019. Been doing a no spend challenge since January 2020. I seriously don’t miss it. Limited options since I’m plant based with Crohn’s. Rather cook at home 😊
The other day we stopped at a Wendy's and did generate waste but I thought it might be good to show the ways I tried to lessen my impact 1) the food we ordered came in plastic clamshell containers so I made sure to take them home and wash them instead of throwing them away 2) I got the smallest frosty on the menu. The smaller the frosty the less dairy consumed and the less packaging especially if you get it without a lid or spoon. 3) I did use a straw but it was one I received from another restaurant without asking for it that I saved for later because I didn't need it then and was afraid they would just throw it way if I gave it back. Yes it would probably have been better if I didn't get the frosty at all or never ordered anything from wendy's, but I thought this was a good example of making an effort to minimize the damage when you aren't ready to stop entirely.
thanks excellent video but the images made me crave fast food really badly lol. UPDATE: thankfully I resisted the temptation and made myself broccoli and beans raggout for dinner 😄
Fast Food repulses me… I’m not slaggin’ those people who choose to eat it… but it is not for me. Everything about Fast Food including the grease, poor nutrition, packaging, highly processed food, waste and particularly the addiction factor to teens and children is… well… appalling. As always, this was a well researched and highly informative video. Thanks for this one Gittemary… we love you too 💙🌀Ⓜ️ary
Good point on trying "vegan" food at a restaurant before trying it at home. While I'm neither Vegan or Vegetarian we gave up beef over 20 years ago and switched to turkey. I tried my first turkey burger at a local restaurant to see what it was supposed to taste like. Same with veggie burgers tried at Burger King (Morningstar brand back then). Wendy's here in the USA now has a black bean burger and while I have a recipe for it, we may try theirs just to see what it taste like and how to make our recipe more like theirs. Anna In Ohio.
My parents seem to have a problem with over consuming. My mother recently discovered 2nd hand stores that are widely cheap and now our cupboards are filled with wine glasses (no one drinks in my family and there are rarely any people who come over), baking dishes, etc. I did get mad when she did this, Luckily COVID stopped her. I’ll try my best to communicate if she starts going to these stores again.
Since the products have already been bought, you can use them to their fullest extent because that is more sustainable than just leaving them there. For example, use the wine glasses as just a normal drinking glass if possible.
Thank God in my town we only have one domino's and one subway... The fast food industry had try to enter the economy here, in my not so small town in MX, but we seems to like small and local business 🤷🏻♀️ more personal service ✨ also thankfully my parents doesn't like fast food so we eat fast food (only KFC and Costco) as children at most 8 times a year when we travel to the capital in my state and home cooked everything so I'm not having much trouble channeling to plant based eating ✨
@gittemary: Thank you so much for making this video!! And in such a short duration! ❤️❤️ The effort you put into making each of your videos is really commendable 😊😊
In my town, it's more expensive to get 4 mcdonalds for my family than to buy the ingredient to make my own burgers... and we get a lot more if we want.
Aww, loved to watch this from the first to last minute :) ...stunned by the pesticides on those potatoes! 😶 I have reduced getting take out, also to save money, and have also tried some of the things mentioned in the tips: For example asking to not get condiments, napkins, chopsticks, ... but it gets ignored often. So it is, as always with trying new things and ways, important to not give up I think! :)
Great video 💓💓 I prefer to have "fast food" in a local restaurant than those big companies. I wish the local ones will be more affordable in the future for everyone because they have better and healthier options 🙏🏼
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I took a photo in a McD: me with my brand new electric car plugged in to charge out of the window. And all food and packaging in frame. I realized only later the absurdity of the juxtaposition.🙄 Last time I went in a fast food restaurant.
I used to work at McDonald's and don't like the burgers anymore. I make my own now. And try to be low waste. If I eat out, I go to subway but I rarely eat out 😊😊
Love your videos. Very informative...but absolutely not "drinking water from the tap". Maybe where you are, the water is great. But tap water is problematic to health...IJS.
I used to work at a bakery (chain) and I would have such a heavy heart after closing. We could not keep any of the cupcakes overnight and had to throw everything out each day. I kid you not, some nights we would throw away over 100 cupcakes. Not to mention the cookies, brownies, and frostings that were past the "best by" date. The company would donate leftovers twice a week, but that still meant 5 days a week of throwing away 40+ lbs of food waste. I really do hope companies find alternatives for reducing food waste and/ or donating leftovers to shelters or charities. :)
as someone who works in fast food, i want to mention: if you're going to deny single use utensils and straws, tell the cashier before they hand it to you. i have customers hand their straw back to me, but for health and pandemic reasons i have to throw it in the trash. it would be less wasteful if you get one to keep it in your car or wherever 👍🏻
I don’t purchase drinks when eating fast food. When my family members do, I save plastic cups to reuse to start seeds. The tall ones are great for tomatoes. I start with a little soil, and as the stem grows, I keep adding more soil. This encourages the plants to grow a strong root system, which makes robust tomato plants.
Great way of reusing something that would otherwise have been thrown away, this is a great idea 😍🙌
Ex McDonald's employee here! I worked at a McD's restaurant in Denmark, so please keep in mind that different countries = different procedures/rules etc. - regardless, here's my experience on this topic:
1: the AMOUNT OF WASTE is so much more than you'd think as a customer. I worked at a relatively small restaurant, but we probably filled an entire container of mixed waste (trash bags from the restaurant containing food and packaging) DAILY. This is not even considering the 5 big trashcans (per day) filled with food waste from the kitchen and food that didn't get ordered fast enough. Also, EVERYTHING is packaged in plastic, even if you don't see it.
2: speaking of food waste... we had to throw food away if it didn't get used within like 5 minutes (depending on the product), we'd have piles of perfectly fine burgers laying there, waiting to be wasted. It's especially heartbreaking if you think about all the cows getting killed just to be thrown in the trash :(
3: they simply don't care. McDonald's care about numbers (money & the number of seconds spent serving each customer).
Sorry for my rant lol, if some of you have any other questions please let me know, I'd love to answer
Thanks for this comment, very interesting. And the amount of food wasted is so sad :(
For me, I use fast food mostly for the times where I feel like I need comfort food but also want to avoid meat/animal products. I don’t really want to buy all the ingredients to make vegan burgers (so much packaging!) just because I crave it every once in a while. Just never get sides/a drink and you can avoid most of the packaging!
That is really clever 🙌✨🌿
Haven’t had fast food since November 2019. Been doing a no spend challenge since January 2020. I seriously don’t miss it. Limited options since I’m plant based with Crohn’s. Rather cook at home 😊
you rock 💪💪❤️❤️
The other day we stopped at a Wendy's and did generate waste but I thought it might be good to show the ways I tried to lessen my impact
1) the food we ordered came in plastic clamshell containers so I made sure to take them home and wash them instead of throwing them away
2) I got the smallest frosty on the menu. The smaller the frosty the less dairy consumed and the less packaging especially if you get it without a lid or spoon.
3) I did use a straw but it was one I received from another restaurant without asking for it that I saved for later because I didn't need it then and was afraid they would just throw it way if I gave it back.
Yes it would probably have been better if I didn't get the frosty at all or never ordered anything from wendy's, but I thought this was a good example of making an effort to minimize the damage when you aren't ready to stop entirely.
I learn a bit more with each of your videos.. Loved when you evoked the potatos impact, we tend to oversee this! Keep it up girl! 👍
Fantastic video!! There are many smaller local “fast food” restaurants with many vegan options. These are much better to support if you can afford it.
"Global panini?" Great video, as usual! This is such an important issue.
like global pandemic- but like, use all other words with P 😂💪
It's always good to take a step back and reevaluate your everyday habits. Great video!
thanks excellent video but the images made me crave fast food really badly lol. UPDATE: thankfully I resisted the temptation and made myself broccoli and beans raggout for dinner 😄
GO YOU 😍 I did think that it would be difficult to portray fast food, without sparking temptation, I see that, great that you stuck it out 😎💪
Fast Food repulses me… I’m not slaggin’ those people who choose to eat it… but it is not for me. Everything about Fast Food including the grease, poor nutrition, packaging, highly processed food, waste and particularly the addiction factor to teens and children is… well… appalling. As always, this was a well researched and highly informative video. Thanks for this one Gittemary… we love you too 💙🌀Ⓜ️ary
Wow!! This was fantastic. I've never thought about this, thank you for putting so much work into this video. Very informative!
Thank you so much for the support 🤩
Good point on trying "vegan" food at a restaurant before trying it at home. While I'm neither Vegan or Vegetarian we gave up beef over 20 years ago and switched to turkey. I tried my first turkey burger at a local restaurant to see what it was supposed to taste like. Same with veggie burgers tried at Burger King (Morningstar brand back then). Wendy's here in the USA now has a black bean burger and while I have a recipe for it, we may try theirs just to see what it taste like and how to make our recipe more like theirs. Anna In Ohio.
Too much sodium in those vegan things. 🤢
@@mamakaka73 A friend who is vegetarian tried them and said they were not satisfying or filling saved us $6 experimenting. Anna In Ohio.
Such great videos. Every. Single. Time! And always with what we can do to help... Gittemary you are the best!
My parents seem to have a problem with over consuming. My mother recently discovered 2nd hand stores that are widely cheap and now our cupboards are filled with wine glasses (no one drinks in my family and there are rarely any people who come over), baking dishes, etc. I did get mad when she did this, Luckily COVID stopped her. I’ll try my best to communicate if she starts going to these stores again.
Since the products have already been bought, you can use them to their fullest extent because that is more sustainable than just leaving them there. For example, use the wine glasses as just a normal drinking glass if possible.
I wait to watch your newly uploaded content on RUclips. Thanks for this Gittemary❤️
Thank you so much for the support 😍💪🌿
I looove this video, I really needed to know this. I don’t really eat fast food anyway but temptation is there.
Brilliant, thank you Gittamary
Thank God in my town we only have one domino's and one subway... The fast food industry had try to enter the economy here, in my not so small town in MX, but we seems to like small and local business 🤷🏻♀️ more personal service ✨ also thankfully my parents doesn't like fast food so we eat fast food (only KFC and Costco) as children at most 8 times a year when we travel to the capital in my state and home cooked everything so I'm not having much trouble channeling to plant based eating ✨
@gittemary: Thank you so much for making this video!! And in such a short duration! ❤️❤️ The effort you put into making each of your videos is really commendable 😊😊
Great video! Very well balanced perspective and guidance. Baby steps! Soon we will all be vegetarian / vegan. 💚💚💚
In my town, it's more expensive to get 4 mcdonalds for my family than to buy the ingredient to make my own burgers... and we get a lot more if we want.
Really great video, Gitte! So many enlightening facts. Keep up the good work! x
Love how informative this video is! And you always look absolutely gorgeous in all your videos🌻
Love from South Africa😊
Thank you so much 😭❤️
Thanks for the information! Definitely going to think more about my fast food actions!
This was super informative! I'll be keeping all of this in mind next time I go out to eat! Thank you
had no idea on the amount of waste and unsustainable practices in the fastfood industry! another great video!
Aww, loved to watch this from the first to last minute :)
...stunned by the pesticides on those potatoes! 😶
I have reduced getting take out, also to save money, and have also tried some of the things mentioned in the tips: For example asking to not get condiments, napkins, chopsticks, ... but it gets ignored often. So it is, as always with trying new things and ways, important to not give up I think! :)
Good Job thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Great video 💓💓
I prefer to have "fast food" in a local restaurant than those big companies. I wish the local ones will be more affordable in the future for everyone because they have better and healthier options 🙏🏼
Thank you so much for this video I was hoping you'd make this! Love ya!!!❤❤❤
Such a good episode
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I took a photo in a McD: me with my brand new electric car plugged in to charge out of the window.
And all food and packaging in frame.
I realized only later the absurdity of the juxtaposition.🙄
Last time I went in a fast food restaurant.
Thank you so much for working so hard on these videos! I loved you!
So informative, as always ❤
could you do a video about wool???
My husband said “no straw please” while ordering a coffee & the girl literally threw a straw out of the pick up window when he went to pick it up 🤬
very strange of her to do that. But why would you need a straw with coffee anyways? Unless it's an iced coffee...
I'm probably the only person on this planet who doesn't like mcdonalds burgers, never liked them... i mean, homemade burgers are soooo much better...
I used to work at McDonald's and don't like the burgers anymore. I make my own now. And try to be low waste. If I eat out, I go to subway but I rarely eat out 😊😊
The BEST sustainable hamburger, vegan or not : the home made one
I thought she said oprah consumption for a second!
GLOBAL PANINI
✨ PANI LOVATO ✨
Better to support the local restaurant or street food... ):
Also one of the conclusions I mention ☺️
Love your videos. Very informative...but absolutely not "drinking water from the tap".
Maybe where you are, the water is great. But tap water is problematic to health...IJS.
I also believe I specified “if you can you”, “if that is possible” etc 🙌
Me before this video: *I only eat the french fries* 🤗
Me after this video: 😥🥴🤡
I knoooow 😭
I say remove all of it period 😂
So annoooying when you say "sponzored" and "tttnnaa" huh
well no matter what you do, someone will think it’s annoying sooo 😂
People have different accents! Who’d have thought 🤔