A Family Wastes 60Lb Of Food A Month?

[NoseyNose]

According to the TV advert(where people are dressed as vegetables).

A family wastes 60lb's of veggies a month.

Where can I verify this,as it does seem extreme.

Being brought up at the tail end of WWII rationing(I was born in 1947)

I hate to waste food,and don't,even though I am now a single household..

Any thoughts?

 

 

[barry1010]

We don't waste any veg at all

[bookbinder]

https://www.tescoplc.com/news/2022/forgotten-food-costing-families-approx-800-a-year/

[NoseyNose]

barry1010

Nor me.I just wondered wher the 60lb's of waste came from?

[NoseyNose]

As a post WWII baby,it horrifys me,and disgusts me when people waste food.

[piggynose]

I was brought up to not waste food not even a morsel!!

Sadly these days I seem to a minority! 

[Vagus]

I think it's £60 of food a month, certainly that's what The Guardian reports. They say it's the equivalent of throwing a meal a day in the bin.

What a total waste of food.

[roopower]

We aste very little of anything.

 

[Tilly2]

I tend to waste savoy cabbage. Even a smallish one is a lot of cabbage!

[davebro3]

I think there's bound to be some waste unless you're very careful. Sometimes I can only buy quantities (salads for example) that are too much for me to use before they go off.

Our council collects food waste separately from other rubbish - dunno what they do with it.

[barry1010]

biofuel, I think, dave

[pastafreak]

My local park has bins just for food waste.

I'll admit to wasting some veg. As Dave says, some packs are too much for a single person. And I'm not a big veg eater...but sometimes I forget and get carried away in the supermarket. 

[bhg481]

I wonder how they arrive at such figures for waste. Do they count peelings? Do they count what supermarkets/grocers etc throw away because it hasn't sold. If they just divide the amount of food thrown away by the number of families  they will get a figure which doesn't really represent the amount that a typical family buys but doesn't eat.

[Old_Geezer]

That family should be named & shamed !

[Vagus]

I make soup with any and all leftover veg, adding pasta, lentils, beans, whatever, to bulk it out and make it more interesting if needed.

Dont throw your cabbage out Tilly, make soup!

[dave50]

Blame the ridiculous obsession with best before and sell by dates. 

[TheWinner]

its to do with over-buying more food than you need, which either goes off or goes past the use-by date etc so gets thrown. In some cases, can total the equivalent of £60 per month in wasted food. 

[Ken4155]

^

I agree. I buy things like tomatoes on the vine and pre-packed veg and as sure as night follows day (or is it t'other way round) there will always be at least one piece of veg that goesd 'off' before i've had chance to use it.

[Atheist]

Most people will peel and prep vegetables, which results in a huge amount of 'waste'. At least we compost all our peelings and leftovers, so that it feeds the garden and next year's crops.

Most waste probably comes from restaurants. Ever noticed how much stuff gets left on the plates in cafes? People think that they need to leave a bit so they don't get fat.  When I was a kitchen porter in the sixties, all waste went into the pigswill bin (lovely melange of custard, peelings, plate scrapes etc) and so it wan't completely wasted.

[Atheist]

Another memory from the sixties.

The Lord Mayor's show/procession involved floats full of scantily-clad girls throwing custard pies at each other; the 'custard' was freshly whipped cream!

[Atheist]

Nosey; Was it 60 lbs, or 60 £'s?