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What a lot of waste...
This picture comes from Nic in Bristol who says, the full bag is going in the bin as it's out of date. It should be composting but I live in a flat and it will just rot left here. What a waste of food and fuel costs transporting it. My fault i know.
Andrew in Dundee...I threw away two large black bags full of out of date food at the weekend.
Paul...I'm a truck driver and last week I had to remove a container from a well known supermarket and take it to a landfill site. The contents were over £5k worth of foodstuff that was well within their sell by dates. The reason it was being dumped was a power-failure had switched off the fridge, NOT a freezer, for less than ONE HOUR. It made me mad to see such wastefulness in an age when so many are starving. This food could have been given to a soup kitchen or homeless shelter instead of being dumped. I took photos which are on my PC and I'll put them on your blog tonight. This needs to stop as its completely unacceptable, with the PM telling us to prevent waste, it is laughable when this sort of practice is more common than you think.
Phillada...After the weekend I take the meat off the bone and boil the bones. I then put the stock in the whizzer with all left over veg and put that soup in the freezer. Also put all left overs in the freezer e.g. Meat, stew. All ready for a busy day.
Dennis in Dunbar...All this reduce waste idea is another move towards post war britain with belts being tightened. What next rationing? I do think a lot of good comes out of problems, we are now learning to live more frugally which is no bad thing!
This picture from Julie in Northumberland...Waste! This is 2 weeks worth of rubbish, hardly a third full due to recycling & thinking about what l buy!
Christine...I would like to know what the cost of the food bill at the G8 summit is, and how much of that food will go to waste. Perhaps they should look at their own habits first before criticising others.
Ray from Preston...Part of the problem is the way many people food shop. Food is bought to stock cupboards and fridges, to give a greater choice when deciding what to have at meal times, especially when preparing meals for children. It is more economically sensible to plan meals ahead and buy food accordingly. Does Mr. Brown's £8 a week include the mountains of food thrown out by supermarkets each day?
Andy...I throw away loads of food - becauase I'm single and vertually everything is packaged for more than one person, albeit many people are single. I also think all food and garden refuse should be collected in separate containers taken to hoppers and the methane gas collected to run council and possibly hospital buildings.
Mr. Vere Lambert-Morris...Food waste is an issue in the UK and people do need to be aware of it. The little amounts scraped in the bin after each meal does mount up. I live in a shared house and see first hand how much my house mates waste each week from scrapings and out of date food. I try to save as much as I can; eating left over dinner for lunch and freezing foods, but the point is that not everyone does. There are many problems with the environment worldwide and the PM is just mentioning one, and we should accept our role and responsibility towards doing what we can and not complain about what everyone else is not doing!
Sharon... Are you kidding? My husband enjoys his daily 'doggy box' for lunch. This is usually a pasta mixture made from leftovers and frozen. We are a normal couple who eat fairly healthily, buy very little junk food, enjoy cooking and eating our food. We do not waste anything, not a thing. Yesterday's roast duck carcass is in the fridge and will be stripped for a stir fry or crispy duck. The fat is in the fridge for roasting potatoes. Leftover roast potatoes and veg will be incorporated into another meal. The gravy will be frozen. All leftovers in our house are used and only bones are binned. Meat that came our of the freezer raw can actually be refrozen if it has been cooked. People who waste food are the lazy ones who just can't be bothered to work out how to use leftovers.
We once went to a dinner party where the hostess said the cheese would be binned if it wasn't eaten!
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