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Love Your Veg!

The broken hearted truth is that in the UK we throw away a third of the food we buy, costing the average household £420 a year- not a prospect that most of us facing the credit crunch can afford.

Fruit and vegetables make up 40% of all food wasted, mainly made up of apples, potatoes, bananas, tomatoes and oranges. The figures show that in total nearly £3 billion worth of perfectly good fruit and vegetables ends up in the bin every year. A staggering 4.4 million whole apples are thrown away, untouched, every day.

Suffolk County Council have been promoting the Love Food Hate Waste Campaign by offering advice on how to avoid this mostly unnecessary waste. Learn to love food and hate waste by following our top 10 tips to minimise food waste


Ten tips to help minimise food waste:

1. Have a quick check in the fridge every day and plan meals around food that needs to be used up first.

2. Check “use by” dates and see if the product can be frozen if it cannot be eaten in time.

3. Make a shopping list (74% of purchase decisions are made after entering the shop, POPAI study)

4. Check fridge/freezer and store cupboards before you shop

5. Keep your fridge between 0° to 5° Celsius for optimum effect

6. Fruit kept in the fridge will stay fresher for longer (except bananas and whole pineapple)

7. Milk, cheese and butter can all be frozen until needed

8. Sliced bread can be toasted from frozen

9. Vegetables past their best can be used in soups, casseroles and chutney

10. Put fruit and vegetable peelings, salad trimmings, etc., in a home compost bin.

More tips about reducing food waste and leftover recipe ideas are available on www.lovefoodhatewaste.com


Many thanks to Growing Places for the use of their vegetables. Growing Places are a social enterprise providing locally sourced fruit and veg, based in Claydon. They make and deliver veg boxes, tel 01473 831224.



Are you unsure about what to do with a particular item of waste?
Follow our 3 point plan

1. Look at our A-Z of materials page to see if there are ways it can be reused or recycled. (let us know if there's anything you think is missing and we'll add to it - simply email us .)
2. Visit your local council's webpages to check whether you can put in the recycling bin and composting bin.
3. Check out whether it can be taken to your local HWRC.

Not sure of how to dispose of your Household Hazardous Waste?
Suffolk County Council has released it's newly updated leaflet on what Household Hazardous Waste is and how to safely dispose of it. As always, we promote waste reduction, reuse and recycling of all products where possible before disposing. To download your copy, click here

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