Reporting for the week the bill arrives.
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Procurement offices at hospitals, school districts and multi-site cafés sort front-panel claims into defined, decorative and irrelevant. The same sort works in a grocery aisle.
Hilde Brekke·Dining·4 min
The butcher, the produce clerk, the fish cutter and the cheesemonger all shape how much food you throw out, and each of them will answer a direct question.
Hilde Brekke·Dining·4 min
A three-person household kept notes on everything it discarded for six weeks. The pattern that emerged changed the shopping, the fridge and, unexpectedly, the air in the kitchen.
Joaquin Salcedo·Dining·5 min
A shopper who has compared packaging across borders for years sorts the claims backed by an enforceable definition from the ones a marketing department simply wrote.
Eleanor Whitcombe·Dining·4 min
Most front-of-package claims are undefined by anyone. Here is how to sort the regulated words from the decorative ones, and how to do it once instead of weekly.
Eleanor Whitcombe·Dining·4 min
At the autumn farm stand, most of the signage is decoration, one warning statement is regulated, and the people standing nearby can tell you which is which.
Joaquin Salcedo·Dining·3 min
Two loaves side by side on the same shelf, and the line that decides which one is actually whole grain sits on the back of the bag, not the front.
Hilde Brekke·Dining·5 min
A clinical dietitian's working method for a newly diagnosed shopper: which front-of-pack wording is regulated, which is decoration, and the paperwork that makes the aisle manageable.
Joaquin Salcedo·Dining·4 min