I pledge to reduce food waste at home
I will reduce food waste at home by:
- Better meal planning.
- Planning a specific day each week to use up leftovers.
- Regularly checking what’s in the fridge, freezer and pantry before going food shopping
- Purchasing the right amount of food. This online portion planner can help make sure you don’t buy too much for each meal.
- Shopping with a shopping list.
- Checking who is eating before preparing food.
- Encouraging small servings to reduce food waste.
- Storing left overs in the freezer with proper labels and ensuring they are used.
- Starting a ‘use it up’ shelf in the fridge or pantry and get everyone in the household to use food from this shelf first.
- Rotating food and placing oldest items to the front/top of fridge or pantry.
- Using transparent containers to easily see what food needs to be used.
- Cooking one meal each week that combines foods that need to be used up.
- Getting creative with using leftovers ( the internet has lots of ideas)
- Preserving any unused vegetables by pickling or other methods of preserving food.
- Using the time to get the most out of my food e.g. making potato peelings into chips and roast chicken carcass into homemade stock.