Here in the UK we’ve had several days of constant sunshine (it’s hard to believe I know – but we have honestly). Over these particular hot and sunny days the supermarkets have been packed out with people buying their salad and BBQ ingredients such as bags upon bags of tomatoes, lettuces and cucumbers, but how much will they actually eat and how much will they throw away should the sun go in?
I couldn’t believe my eyes when people were snatching at the lettuces as if there was no tomorrow, but I can guarantee that half of those people have just gone along with the mad rush for them and will now leaving them to rot in their fridge as they probably thought it’s a nice sunny day and I shall start my diet today. Read the rest of this entry »
The old saying “waste not want not” may belong to a different era, but with the news that the average UK family throws out a staggering £610 of food a year, it’s one worth returning to.
We waste an incredible 6.7 million tonnes of food every year.
But the government’s Waste and Resources Action Programme says almost two-thirds of the food thrown away could have been eaten if we managed our lives better.
Only 19 per cent of our rubbish is made up of unavoidable waste such as vegetable peelings, meat carcasses and teabags.
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The rest comes from leftovers we scrape off our plates after meals, and shockingly, completely untouched products that have been allowed to go off. Nearly one million tonnes of food is thrown away whole or unopened – almost half of all bags of salad bought ends up in the bin. Read the rest of this entry »
