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Britons will today be urged to make saving food as important as saving energy, with the publication of a government report which reveals that more than 4m tonnes of food are wasted each year at a cost of hundreds of pounds per household.
The Cabinet Office review of food policy states that the UK throws away an annual 4.1m tonnes of edible goods, the equivalent of £420 for every home.
Though Downing Street is wary of hectoring voters about what they eat, the call for greater awareness will come from Gordon Brown on the first day of the G8 summit in Japan, where rising food and energy prices will dominate debate between world leaders.
So listen to Gordon an eat your greens!
Wonder how much of that was sprouts left over from xmas? :shock:If people waste less food, then, in turn, they’ll buy less in the first place and that will only add to the gathering pace of the recession. I thought Brown knew a bit about economics!!!
I think they should change the sell by and use by dates on produce in supermarkets. They could make everything one day next year, and then nobody would need to chuck food out. Apart from bananas, you should never keep a banana too long.
@minim wrote:
I think they should change the sell by and use by dates on produce in supermarkets. They could make everything one day next year, and then nobody would need to chuck food out. Apart from bananas, you should never keep a banana too long.
Brilliant!……..however I’m not even going to ask why you shouldnt keep
a banana too long. :Dwell a banana shows when its not happy.. mind you an over-ripe one suits me ..
i can remember before the days of sell bys… we were once sponsored by marks n spencers as we did a play ” not walking on the cracks ” about homelessness.
I argue with me son all the time ! he throws food out if it went out of date NOW !..
Its simple really
Our forefathers (and mothers) knew how to be self sufficient- they knew how to use everything and make it last
We live in a throwaway society that eats in dinners from pre cooked meals (“convenience food”)- we have lost the art of survival and of imagination when it comes to food.
GB is right but it is part of a wider festation in society- it’s cheap, it’s easy, it’s manufactured so I don’t have to think about how it got here.
We, the most nannied, mollycoddled generation ever have forgotten how to live
send it here i’ll eat the bugger
the secret used to lie in the sniffing Slayer ! no freezers etc and everything kept in the ” press” they didnt bulk buy .. im sure i have eaten many an out of date product in my 48 years ! I hide things from my son thats going out of date LOL. and try and explain that once its mouldy or rancid it MAY be “off” ..
ok im exagerrating,but ffs !
we have too much money relatively speaking we can afford to throw it away Most of it is still eatable when we do anyway
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