Worked example · simulated scenario

Separating Cooking Use From Food Waste

A smaller carrot bag can mean dinner was cooked, food was discarded, or both. Separating those uses makes the waste record useful instead of treating every stock withdrawal as a loss.

A batch starts with 500 g carrots. Dinner uses 180 g and a damaged portion weighing 40 g is discarded.

Record the two different uses

1. Record 180 g as Used in cooking on the carrot batch.
2. Record another 40 g using Confirm discard and the reason Damaged.
3. Open Food Waste Tracker for the current month.

Only the discarded portion is waste

The batch contains 280 g. The waste record contains 40 g, not 220 g.

The one hundred eighty grams used for dinner and forty grams discarded both reduce stock. Only the forty-gram loss belongs in the tracker, because it represents food not used as intended.

Weigh the discarded portion separately so normal cooking does not inflate the waste total.