Food waste in an RV

Downsizing has been at once liberating and heavy. Selling our house to live full time in an RV will come with many adjustments. I'll probably miss not having a garden the most, followed closely by my chickens, then the compost bins. One big change will be how we deal with food waste in an RV. For the past years, whenever we've had food begin to spoil in the fridge, we'd either feed it to the chickens or compost it for the garden.

At the end of the week, left overs and uneaten meals prepared for workday lunch get dumped into the compost bin or fed to the chickens. This won't be so easy once we begin living full-time in an RV.

Making sure we don't prepare too much food will help reduce food waste, but we'll always have to deal with some waste. When preparing meals, we collect the cutting board scraps for compost.

Into the compost pail it goes, which we keep near the trash can, and recycle bin.

About every 2 to 3 days, we empty the kitchen pail into one of several compost bins in the yard. Here, chickens eat kitchen scraps, which also draw bugs, adding to the chicken's diet.

About every 4 or 5 months, I harvest 2 or 3 wheelbarrows of finished compost, perfect for the garden.

The garden regularly yields a decent amount of produce for us. We'll miss growing our own fresh veggies once we start traveling full time.

There are compact options I'm considering for the RV. A worm bin can work in a tight space, but the worms are slow and need to be kept cool.

Another option is a bokashi bin, which ferments organic material and is known to produce rich compost tea.

Since I won't have a garden, I'd have to find a place for the finished compost, likely a community garden between destinations, or even parking lot landscaping or undeveloped areas. How do you deal with food waste when you travel?