29-05-2020, 10:43 PM
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Re: Food waste
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Not waste, the assorted wildlife round our place eat just about anything we leave out for them. In the case of the badgers they come scratching at the door, the vixen has taken to bringing her six kits on the lawn and the lot of them come up when we're in the Summerhouse. Various birds come down and eat anything that fits in their beaks and the garden blackbird regularly flies down on our shoulders and squarks for suet and mealworms. Waste? Some hope. Too many gobs to be fed!
30-05-2020, 08:50 AM
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Re: Food waste
I'm always throwing stuff out....shameful really I need to take control.Tess I bought some weird stuff just before lockdown I have no idea what for....it was not knowing how bad things would be I suppose and believing some of the scare stories in the press....that'll teach me
30-05-2020, 09:56 AM
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Re: Food waste
Originally Posted by summer
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I'm always throwing stuff out....shameful really I need to take control. Tess I bought some weird stuff just before lockdown I have no idea what for....it was not knowing how bad things would be I suppose and believing some of the scare stories in the press....that'll teach me
I have Chicken soup, no idea why, at least I can pass it on.
30-05-2020, 09:56 AM
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Re: Food waste
I hate food waste. Why buy it, just to chuck it away? I did buy extras at the start of the Lockdown but l made sure it was food with a good sell-by date.Any leftovers, l freeze for another time. It’s amazing how many ‘bits’ can be useful.
My motto is, Look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves!
I did put a whole overripe banana on the lawn for my hens yesterday but they weren’t interested. I went into the house, came out and it was gone.
It must have been a crow or a magpie but l bet it looked funny flying around with a banana in its beak!
30-05-2020, 10:14 AM
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Re: Food waste
Originally Posted by Azure
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Food left outside also attracts vermin.
Vermin? Need to go to places like London to see that.
30-05-2020, 10:44 AM
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Re: Food waste
Mostly bread goes in my food bin. I don't have room for a proper freezer and don't eat much bread. It seems to go off quickly and the use by dates are very short.I find Aldi rustic half loaves last longest.
Even those cook it yourself rolls, you have to use quickly once opened.
The supermarkets seem to only stock larger tins of soups, spaghetti and beans now too.
I put my banana skins or ones that are over-ripe, under my rhododendrons and azaleas, they get nitrogen from them. (I think).
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