Do You Waste Food?

[nailit]

Apparently the average UK family throws away 60 quid a month on food wastage.http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/07/uk-households-food-waste
I find this both morally reprehensible (when people in our own country are resorting to food banks) and frankly just plain bad housekeeping.
Im a single bloke living on benefits and cant afford to waste food but even when I wasnt I found it wrong to do so.

My actual food waste for the month could fit in a shoebox.
Any 'leftover' food gets recycled into a curry, vegetables such as carrots and potatoes get cooked whole (instead of peeled) and any fruit or veg that maybe is on the turn is blended into a smoothie. Even any food that has become uneatable to me is used to feed the local wildlife that CAN eat it.
I just find something wrong in wasting food.
Is it just me that thinks like this?

[mrs.chappie]

No, I never waste any food, even gravy gets scraped into a tub and frozen for future use in soup or stew. Guess it stems from my days as a youngster when we regularly went hungry from a shortage of food.

[joeluke]

Some people seem to (wrongly) think that any food with a date on the packaging will be inedible beyond that date

I've consumed yogurts recently which were days beyond their 'date' (got forgotten about at back of fridge), and they tasted the same as ones eaten on day of purchase

High time people took off their 'use-by-date blinkers'

[Baldric]

Our Disposal System (see Avatar) ensures there's not a lot wasted!

[Retrochic]

Naval -people have tried to justify waste by saying things are only sold in large portions aimed at families so if you are a couple or single you have no choice sometimes to throw stuff out.

[Maydup]

We waste nothing and only really buy what we need for the week ahead. If items are only sold in large packets we either go without or freeze half.

All our fruit and veg peelings go in the compost, so other than that we genuinely produce nothing in terms of food waste.

[Retrochic]

Who on earth are the right on crowd?

[anneasquith]

'' the right on crowd'' is it membership only ? :)