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?

 

 

[Countrylover]

Actually Vagus my 6 months of zlatin was useful because it helps so much with other Latin based languages.  I didn't like French at school but managed to scrape an o level in in.  After college I went off and aupaired In France for a while and came home speaking it reasobly fluent so my school French must have helped.

As for cooking, I have rarely used recipes and stuck to the recipe.  I don't cook at all now, but I was a bit of a throw it in cook.  

[Countrylover]

I'm just there to advise Mr L now but he often asks me about how many ounces or how much water etc.  I haven't a clue, cos I didn't use scales.

[pastafreak]

We had Home Economics...cookery plus, iirc, other aspects of managing a home. I enjoyed it, but my real lessons were with my mum. I loved watching her...and sampling as she went along. She baked a lot, as I did too...using her old tattered little recipe books. I still have them. I stopped baking years ago when I had about 3 extra stone on me. Husband and daughter didn't have my sweet tooth. I still dream of deep rich chocolate cake or Maryland gingerbread. 😍

My daughter...and her partner...share the cooking and are very good at it. They do have a collection of recipes. They love food...I think that helps a lot. If you are adventurous you try new things.

I'll use a recipe as a jumping off point or for inspiration. 

[Countrylover]

Pasta.  My son does most of the cooking.  His wife bakes.  As a couple they love food too and he is very experimental with it and when he's dishing up its like being in a restaurant.  Beautifully presented.   He was always in the kitchen with me as a kid so did pick a lot up from me but I don't present food like he does! 

(And he hates eggs.  There was no way he would eat them however hard I tried.  And he hates bananas too like I do and I tried hard with those too from babyhood)

[nicebloke1]

Food waste is awful but its not just Joe Public to blame. The supermarkets wast far more, on a massive scale. Just before the merry season we were told by the press that there would be a shortage for many reasons,  according to the press farmers would face difficulty getting them out of the fields due to the amount of rain we had and they would rot in the feilds. Poppycock, they were rotting inside the suppermarket, even at 10p a bag.

The food waste is just one area of waste, then you have the money wasted on convenient foods.

It was only last week that I was watching a food program on TV regarding ready washed salad. the price difference between this bagged washed salad and you buying the whole salad yourself was off the scale.

Not to mention that any pre washed bagged salad appears to be one of the biggest causes of food poisoning in the UK,according to this program. The problem being not the water its washed in so much, but when the tiniest bit of brown / rot starts to appear on the salad leaves. This small amount of rot turns into a brown like liquid that collects at the bottom of the bag, there you have your bacteria that can sit you on the toilet pan for a few days or worse. Once people buy this product they tend to hold on to it for a lot longer than they should, thinking that keeping it in the fridge, all will be ok, not, the bacteria multiples at a rapid pace once started.

A clue when buying if you do buy it, and of course as always its your choice. Look for the slightest sign of brownish liquid at the bottom of the bag, or tinted brown on the leaves.

(And never buy it when its reduced in price) Amen :0)

[pastafreak]

Lottie...daughter and partner are real foodies. They send me photos of both food they've made, and restaurant meals. She's given me ideas...and as I may have mentioned elsewhere, introduced me to ways to eat eggs I'd never have tried otherwise.

Their food is also beautifully presented. Makes me proud.

[pastafreak]

"...A clue when buying if you do buy it, and of course as always its your choice. Look for the slightest sign of brownish liquid at the bottom of the bag, or tinted brown on the leaves..."

Just the thought of that is sickening. 🤢

[Redhelen72]

I am still picking my own home grown salad leaves and spring onions - i have not bought any salad since May last year

[nicebloke1]

Keep on picking red best option by what on understand going on this program. And remember these tv programs have to be very carefull what they say, and be able to prove such, they did prove everything they said.

[Countrylover]

I don't eat salad, but Mr Ĺ makes himself a salad dish every day and we've never used those salad packs. I have a stuffed avocado  most days.  

 

[pastafreak]

I'm not a huge salad eater...only in summer and an occasional big bowl of rocket and spinach plus meats and cheeses.. Only available in bags unfortunately.