The topic for this year’s World Food Day is ‘Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too’. This has got us thinking about the things we can do at home to contribute – food waste is a huge problem across the world, and within the UK.
Whether you already do a little or a lot, we can all take steps to reduce food waste even further.
Here are our top tips for reducing your food waste:
- Use a shopping list & plan meals in advance to prevent you buying extra items when you shop
- Check the fridge, freezer and cupboards before you go shopping so you don’t have to rely on memory
- Plan meals around leftovers/ what’s in your fridge
- Keep store cupboard ingredients on hand for when you’re getting creative with your leftovers
- Buy wonky vegetables when you shop to help reduce the amount of vegetables that are rejected just because of their looks (helps the farmers too!)
- Practice managing portion sizes – use everyday objects to measure out ingredients (e.g. 1 small mug of pasta per person)
- Donate any food that you can’t eat in time to food banks
- Know what foods you can freeze, and make sure to label them