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.