Lidia Bastianich Quotes

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.

I was brought up to reuse things.

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

I don't like wasting food.

There are two ways to be rich: to have more or need less. It's estimated that we squander about 30 percent of our energy leaving the lights on, the refrigerator door open, and so on. Then there is the enormous amount of food that we expend huge amounts of energy to raise and then throw away.

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

I really don't require a whole lot in life.

When we unwrap presents, I tend to sit there with a bin liner trying to collect up the wrapping paper and thinking about which pieces I can reuse and which I will recycle.

Nothing is wasted.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

We're taught that food in a dumpster is waste. But when you find bags of bread that are perfectly good, all of a sudden that waste turns into bounty. That's an important shift in perception.

Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.

My parents grew up in the Depression. Despite the success that they both had in their lives, there's a certain mentality that tells you to finish all the food that's on your plate and not wasting anything and appreciating what's on the table.

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.