Food Waste

I have a small 5 litre "food waste recycling" caddy. In a flat so no composting. I average about half a caddy a week for two of us and that includes peelings and teabags. Bet it is not the post war generation that is over buying and dumping.

I must confess to wasting both bread and salad (bagged or otherwise).

I do not eat a great deal of bread myself but like to keep some in for the grandchildren or DH. To be fair the bread technically doesn't waste as we have a lot of hungry ducks and swans in the park beside my house.

I do eat quite a lot of salad and find that the leaves and tomatoes don't seem to keep for vey long even in the fridge.

Waste very little of anything else though.

I love ham shanks

Did I hear correctly that each household wastes £700 of food every year ? I don't SPEND that much on food every year !! I eat very well too but like many of you nothing is wasted. Ham shanks (£1 from my butcher) can give me at least soup for 3 lunches and if I wasn't so piggy with the meat would also give 3 main meals with the addition of veg from next doors garden.

You are both making me hungry

Our lunch today is made up of yesterday's meal.
Left over lamb,carrots potatoes and gravy.
The only thing I have added today is sliced onion,herbs and cheese and Worcester sauce.
The lamb I have minced with the onions ,added the carrots the gravy and herbs, a slash of Worcester sauce and sliced the potatoes on top and covered with cheese.
No waste for us.

I read an article in today's Telegraph which said that the supermarkets (Tesco was named, surprise surprise) were responsible for the waste.
Something like 60% of the bread Tesco produce is wasted, some by consumers, but most of it because it's left on the shelves too long.
Ditto bagged salad.
They have promised to redesign the shelving, so that not as much produce is on display at any one time.
Like you HL I don't waste anything.
Just off to my local baker to byuy some fresh bread for lunch. [yum emoticon]