Gosh I hate to waste food, but someone sent me a bunch of fruit for X-
mas, including a huge bunch of bananas that thankfully are still
green, but will all ripen about the same day. I don't eat bananas and
my daugher only eats half a banana each school day morning on her
oatmeal, so I need to come up with a plan.  I think she can manage to
week the kiwi, apples, and oranges in time but I guess I will have to
take the bananas over to a neighbor.  At least they didn't send
chocolate or other candy.  Actually, I have no compunction to throw
candy away though.  After Halloween, I had to purge my daughter's
candy bag of all the sweet tarts, sour this and sour that, and just
leave a few pieces of chocolate.  That's really all she likes anyway.
The rest went straight to the trash were it couldn't hurt anyone.

A lot of would be dieter's use this kind of situation as an excuse to
overeat.  Parents tend to eat the food their children have left, often
while standing at the sink.  Since that wasn't really their food to
begin with, they conveniently forget those calories.  Of course just
having food in front of you is a kind of temptation, so for many it
might be a good idea to get the excess food out of the house.  Dkw