Food Waste

[watervole]

 Food waste is a surprisingly big hitter on Climate Change.  Whenever we grow unused food, we're wasting all the carbon cost of growing it, and also losing the advantages that could be gained if the land was restored to nature.

• In the UK 7 million tonnes of food is thrown away by households every year, that’s around a third of all the food we buy.

Comments

[reapermum]

I might add portion control to those. It doesn’t take long to know how much people actually eat in a meal and there's no need to cook more than that and then have to find a use for the extra.

This is of course different from advance planning for a later meal.

[watervole]

That's a very good point.

I think some of that comes down to how confident a cook you are. Recipes vary on what they consider as a 'portion'. Some people are happy to work out their own recipes or adapt, and some are terrified to change anything.