No more binning your food!
Welcome to the “Fight Food Waste” action – a transformative 7-day journey to combat food waste and make a positive impact on our environment! We’ll equip you with ingenious tips, and creative ideas to minimise food waste in your daily life.
Why should we care about food?
Here are some facts to blow your mind:
- If landfilled, decaying food produces methane, which is 28x more potent than CO2! Methane contributes greatly to a changing atmosphere
- Each day in the UK we throw away 20 million slices of bread, 4.4 million potatoes and 5.2 million glasses of milk!
- 1 bag (1KG) of sugar from sugar cane has a water footprint of 1,500 litres
- Growing soya beans is causing widespread deforestation but at least 75% of soya grown is to feed livestock
- We throw away enough edible food each year to feed all of the hungry people in the world
But just how much are we binning?
One-third of the world’s food produced is lost or wasted! In the UK, 70% of household food waste was once perfectly edible. So it’s no surprise that the average UK family could save £730 and the average American family could save $1,600 a year by being food savvy!
Fighting food waste doesn’t only save money, it values and protects the labour, land, water, and energy used to produce our food and reduce greenhouse gases. After all, they say that reducing food waste is the number one solution to fighting climate change!
Watch this 3-min video to understand the global issue of food waste
How to avoid and deal with food waste
During the action you’ll pick up many ways to reduce food waste, but here’s our top three tips:
Change the way you think and shop
We often shop on autopilot, buying the same things week in, week out. But take five and think about what foods you throw away most, and why. Start small and address one food item at a time if that helps. Any changes you make need to suit your household’s priorities and lifestyle. Be true to yourself and make realistic changes…
For example, if you often throw bread, can you buy a smaller loaf or freeze half at a time – got space in the freezer? Would you remember to take it out to make sandwiches – need to set a phone reminder? Or often throw greening potatoes? Can you buy loose instead of a supersize packet and store it in a dark, cool, dry place – away from onions?
Know your dates
A common reason for throwing food is not understanding the date labelling. Watch this 1-minute video to master the difference between use-by and best before dates.
Know how to handle a kitchen
Prepping food correctly and making it tasty will help you enjoy your time in the kitchen as well as devouring the food afterwards! Get kitchen confidence by reading our quick guide.
Want more?
Watch our Ailuna Chitchat with the brilliant Martyn from Lagom Chef.
And remember, sharing is caring – invite friends to join you on this tasty journey so they can do the action alongside you!
