A Kantar survey in 2023 showed every year over 100,000 tonnes of perfectly good food is wasted.
Some of the reasons food is wasted are:
People do not store it properly
They don’t use the leftovers
Buy too much in the first place.
Here are just a few ways you can waste less food:
Always check your pantry first and make a shopping lst before going to the supermarket.
Plan some of the meals for the week ahead of time so you only buy what is needed..
Bread is one of the top foods that is wasted by households – approximately 29 million loaves of bread a year according to LoveFoodHateWaste. We can stop wasting as much by storing bread correctly. The best place to store bread is in the fridge. If you don’t like the crusts don’t throw them away use them to make breadcrumbs or in desserts…
Vegetables – we waste a lot of fruit and vegetables too. If the fruit is a little soft – perhaps put it in a fruit pie or make preserves. Leftover vegetables can be cut up small and used in such things as stir fries and curries.
Also please do not put your food scraps in the standard rubbish bin which will end up in the landfill and release gases like methane. Compost at home or use a worm farm / give food scraps to any chickens/pigs you might have or use a green food scraps organics bin if you have one.
