12-05-2010, 08:28 AM
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Brits bin food
Brits throw out worth £7.7 billion of out-of-date food every year, a study has revealed.Each month, the average adult throws away food worth £13.30 – or a total of £159.60 a year – because they haven’t got around to eating it before it goes past its use-by date.
Across the country, that means a staggering £7,660,800,000 of food is ending up in the bin – with yoghurts, sandwich meat and lettuce the most commons things to throw away.
Milk, cucumbers and bread also regularly get left to go off.
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Its cucumber with us, it very rarely all gets eaten, I often wish the half sizes were half again.Thats one of the reasons I like to grow my own, its usually all eaten and you can pick them small.
12-05-2010, 08:00 PM
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Re: Brits bin food
This throws up lots of issues - waste of money, waste of food, carbon footprints etc etc.I must admit I don't throw out yoghurts - look at it, sniff it, taste it, if it seems ok I eat it - it's only sour milk after all
I try to compost compostable items but I still seem to get some waste. I tend to cook meals that are too big for the two of us and freeze the left overs. Unfortunately, a lot of the time, this postpones throwing it away because I don't fancy it when it comes out of the freezer.
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