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Love Food Hate Waste
• What do we waste?
• Who is making the waste?
•Why is food waste bad?
•What are retailers doing?
•What we can do – tips and
advice to take home
UK food waste – how much do we waste?
* This covers part of the profit sector, and schools; ** incl. other parts of the hospitality and food service sector, other out of home food waste, and pre-factory gate food waste; household figures updated October 2011. NB data for household also includes drink waste, which is not currently available for other sectors
4.4m tonnes 1.4m tonnes 1.4m tonnes
7.2m tonnes Total food and drink waste
Avoidable Possibly Avoidable Unavoidable
Household food and drink waste in the UK
Avoidable
Prepared, served, or
cooked too much
Not used in
time
Why do we waste good food?
4.4m tonnes
All types of food and drink are thrown away
The most prominent by weight:
• Fresh vegetables and salad
• Drink
• Fresh fruit
• Bakery items – e.g. bread
What are we wasting?
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Who throws away the most food?
What and how
much are we
throwing away
each day?
1.6m Bananas
5500 Chickens
5.1m potatoes
1.3m Yoghurts
220,000 Loaves of Bread
660,000 Eggs
1.2m Sausages
~270kg per household per
year
~5kg per household per
week
~ around 120kg per person
per year
Average household food waste
Environmental Impact
Sending food to landfill generates methane - one of the
most harmful greenhouse gases
Environmental Impact
Producing, storing and transporting food uses up a
lot of energy and resources
=17 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year
If we were to stop wasting food it would be the
equivalent of taking 1 in 5 cars off UK roads
The effect of waste on your wallet:
UK householders are throwing away £12 billion worth of good
food and drink every year
£480 per household per year
£680 per household with children per year
Wasting less = Savings of up to £50 a month
The financial costs of food waste
It’s not all bad news...
UK household food waste has fallen by 1.1 million tonnes (13%)
since 3 years ago - from 8.3 million tonnes to 7.2 million tonnes, or
around a fifth of all food purchased
Avoidable household food waste has reduced by 950,000 tonnes, or
18%, from 5.3 to 4.4 million tonnes – one Wembley Stadium’s worth!
But...
As food inflation over this period has been around 20%, although the
amount we throw away is much lower (overall 4.4 mt vs 5.3 mt) it is
still costing us about the same
What are the retailers doing?
The Courtauld Commitment
= A responsibility agreement aimed at improving
resource efficiency and reducing the
environmental impact of the grocery retail
sector
The targets includes the reduction of household
food waste
There are over 50 signatories including…
BmMore th mmman
300 local authorities
in England are also
running LFHW
initiatives and have
avoided spending at
least £22m in disposal
costs.
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Product Development
Messages
Practical Tips and Advice
Five Key behaviours
It pays to plan
Know your dates
Savvy storage
Perfect portions
Lovely leftovers
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Planning your meals
Save time and money:
• Saves money by using up what’s left
• Prevents buying things you already have
How?
• Know what’s in your fridge, freezer and store cupboard
• Plan your main meals for the week
• Think about potential leftover dishes
Benefits of Planning
• Can help get others involved in meal planning and
preparation
• More nutritionally balanced meals
• Less stressful and time-consuming – no need to try and
think of things to eat each day
• Enables you to cook double and freeze half
• Helps use up freezer meals
Know your dates
Checking dates saves money and lets you enjoy food at its best
• Check the dates on food
regularly and use foods with the
shortest date first
• Freeze for later foods you won’t
get round to eating in time
Savvy Storage
Storing your food correctly ensures you get the
most from the food that you buy – lasting longer
and saving you money
Using your Fridge
• Keep the fridge at a cool 1 - 5 degrees and chilled food
will stay fresh for longer
• Our most perishable (and often most expensive) food is
kept in the fridge, so keep tabs on their use-by dates
• The freezer may be the option for food we won't get
round to eating in time
Freezer Myth Buster
You can only freeze food on the day of purchase
FALSE
Food can be frozen at any point up to the
end of the “use by” date
Freezer Myth Buster
Frozen food isn’t as good as fresh
FALSE
Many foods are frozen at their freshest, e.g.
fish and vegetables, so they keep all the
goodness “locked” in
Freezer Myth Buster
You can’t freeze dairy foods .
FALSE
You can freeze hard cheese, like cheddar and
stilton, as well as milk, cream (slightly whipped)
and butter
Using your Freezer
• Food can THEORETICALLY be stored in the freezer
forever
– it only deteriorates in quality, not safety
• Some foods deteriorate quicker than others
For example, chicken lasts longer than yoghurt
• Changes in quality include: colour, texture and flavour
Top Freezer Tips
• Freeze up to one day before the 'use by' date – try
creating home-made ready meals too!
• Label your frozen food, including the date
• Thaw food in fridge. Or, if you intend to cook it as soon as
it's defrosted, you can defrost it in a microwave
• Eat within 24 hours after it’s been defrosted – heat
thoroughly
Top Storage Tips
1. Stop veg going mouldy Put a piece of kitchen paper in with the vegetables in the fridge drawer -
Any moisture goes in the paper not the vegetables
2. Freezing milk Freeze milk when you have bought too much or are off for a few days!
5 .Cheese Take Cheese out of its wrapper and put in a plastic container -
The cheese does not sweat and stays fresh much longer
3 .Stop fruit spoiling Keep an eye on your fruit, separate fruit which is ripening up more quickly than the others
4. Quick Veg Peel and chop carrots, onions, etc, bag them and freeze. When needed, just take out as
much as you need and reseal - No more soggy veg at the bottom of your veg box
Perfect portions
• Weigh or measure your food – work out the right amount
• Avoid piling up the plate with food – encourage people
to help themselves from serving dishes
• You don’t need any fancy tools – a mug,
tablespoon, spaghetti measure or simple scales
are all you need
• A Mug
Handy for measuring uncooked rice –
1 mug = 4 adults
• Tablespoon
Good for measuring out portions of rice –
5 tablespoons = 2 children
• Handfuls
Great for pasta – 2 handfuls = 1 adult
• Weighing scales
Follow the weight guide on the packet
Portions Calculator
Perfect portions guide
Lovely leftovers
• Keep for the next day
• Freeze as a ‘ready meal’
• Transform into a new meal
What do you do with your leftovers?
• What’s your go-to leftovers or
throw-together meal?
Five Key behaviours
It pays to plan
Know your dates
Savvy storage
Perfect portions
Lovely leftovers
Thanks for listening!
Any questions?
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