A bride and groom fed their 140 wedding guests and saved food from landfill by enlisting the help of food waste charity The Real Junk Food Project!
Vegan, veggies and meat-eaters were all catered for, and all enjoyed a Gregg’s Donut Tower, covered in day-old treats for dessert. Get the full story and have a look at the delicious feast here
Fancy saving a few pennies and reducing the amount of food going to waste in London at the same time? YumNow, an app which launched in June this year will help you do just that. Why not check them out and give the app a whirl?
Did you know that throwing away just under 20 fruit and vegetables over the course of a month could cost a household of four a whopping £100? Not only this, but it would waste nearly as much CO2 as a 30-mile car journey!
Food tech company It’s Fresh! have created a food waste calculator to help you work out the true cost of the fruit and veg you’re throwing out. Work out your impact on the environment and how much money you could save here
Did you know that if everyone in London froze their bread to make toast, we could save 2, 600,000 slices from the bin every day? Yes, you read that right! Nearly 3 million of slices of bread are currently ending up in the bin every single day – and that’s in London alone!
We’re all wasting way too much food at the moment, even those of us who think we aren’t, but the good news, is that there are lots of small changes we can all make to reverse the mounting food waste trend. Here are some of our favourite food waste prevention tips to help you out:
Freeze half a loaf and when you fancy toast, take a couple of slices out and pop them straight from the freezer into the toaster. Tap the loaf on your kitchen counter before freezing, to separate the slices.
Once you’ve opened your bagged lettuce, place it in a tub with kitchen roll. It’ll stay fresh longer.
Don’t dismiss canned and frozen veg. It’s still packed with vitamins and will keep for ages – perfect for all of us with busy schedules.
Perk up celery by putting it in a cool glass of water in the fridge.
Did you know you can freeze eggs? Simply crack them into a bowl and separate the whites from the yolks to freeze separately, or whisk together.
Take a shelfie of your fridge before shopping to avoid doubling up on items.
On 1 June 2018 we celebrated London’s rich, bountiful and diverse food culture with an event at Mercato Metropolitano. Chef Cyrus Todiwala (CBE, OBE) gave a cookery demonstration, using some of the top 10 foods we waste in the UK and was interviewed by the one and only Angellica Bell, winner of 2017 Celebrity Masterchef. Attendees had the opportunity to taste his creations, as well as sample dishes created from leftovers made by some of the stall holders at Mercato.
Watch London Live’s coverage of the event here
From pensioner to student, who wastes the most food? East London Lines followed local residents to see what they eat – and throw away – in a bid to record just how much food we waste and how.
Read the food diaries here
East London Lines ran a four day campaign in April which aimed to reduce food waste. The campaign combined a mixture of data, videos, interviews and articles to help layout the problem, whilst also profiling the creative firms who are utilising surplus food in innovative ways.
Find out more about the campaign here
Your food waste could be turned into compost, which farmers can use to fertilise their crops.
Find out how it’s done:
Did you know your food waste can be turned into electricity?
Watch this video to find out how it’s done:
Open your fridge, grab the ingredients closest to their use-by date and create a recipe from food that would otherwise go to waste. This is the challenge set by The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in their new campaign, #RecipeForDisaster, which aims to raise awareness and money for hungry people by asking the general public to be more conscious of their food waste – one of the fundamental steps towards eradicating global hunger.
We produce enough food globally to feed all the world’s 7 billion people, and yet, one in nine people still go to bed hungry each night.
Watch the video to learn how you can create your own #RecipeForDisaster and find out more about the campaign here: —–
Every day in the UK, 24 million slices of bread are thrown away – that’s a frightening 1 million slices every single hour.
Love Food Hate Waste has launched the Make Toast Not Waste campaign to help all of us in the UK reduce the astronomical amounts of bread that are currently going to waste, simply by popping our loaves in the freezer.
Did you know you can make toast straight from frozen bread and it taste just as good as if you made it from fresh? Find out more about the campaign and get loads of toast topper inspiration over at the Make Toast Not Waste campaign page. Don’t forget to share your best toast topper ideas on social using #maketoastnotwaste
According to the sustainability charity Wrap, around 10 million tonnes of food has been binned in the UK every year since 2012. That’s enough loaves of bread to almost fill Wembley Stadium; enough milk to fill 230 Olympic-sized swimming pools; and the weight of 365 blue whales in bananas alone. Food waste within homes accounted for more than 70% of this, and yet in a recent survey by Wrap, nearly 60% of people said they never, or rarely, wasted food – we’re in denial!
Meet some of the food waste warriors who are tackling the problem head on.