Food waste

[Scully]

A sister of the OH has always been keen on voluntary charity work, that sort of thing; she even did a stint for a Catholic church in Zaire or Zimbabwe some years ago. 
She, along with others, currently collects food which would otherwise go to landfill,  donated by supermarkets in her area. The food can then be bought for a donation by whomever for one of each item, ie one loaf of bread, one carton of milk, one tin of beans etc etc. 

She has just arrived at her parents house laden with all manner of ‘leftovers’, some with ‘reduced’ labels attached but all with a very short shelf life. 
There are bagels, bread, trifles, pizzas and strangely, bunches of flowers predominantly from M&S!  
She said they are given bags full of pizza toppings, which look like dog kibble but are in fact pieces of salami, chorizo and chicken and ham. 
She said the waste is still unimaginable because we produce so much, and told us that if a bag of chicken is opened at a KFC towards the end of the day and not used, whatever remains goes in the bin, even if just one piece of chicken was used from a bag containing two dozen! Company policy apparently. 
It would seem not a lot has changed, regardless of what is supposed to be a ‘cost of living crisis’. 🤷‍♂️

We’ve had trifle for afters! 😀😋

[Fargo]

We need a food crisis really so people can see what food really is and what it should cost .

Sadly todays society is all about throw away foods and goods.

[islandgun]

Its shocking the amount of good food thrown away. As a student i worked late nights in a fruit/veg packing station in Cambridgeshire, one damaged item [for example a pineapple in the box] and the lot went on the skip. going even further back we fed a dairy herd, a trailer of cox's apples per day that were destined for the skip because they were less than perfect. my local shop gives away out of date fruit on monday mornings. good for your OH

[Bigbob]

When i was at the university we got a new lassie in student welfare after the students left for the summer she got her staff to empty all the kitchens and got a local food bank to collect all the food she even got another charity to collect the opened packets , She is that good she even got M&S and asda to donate turkeys left after xmas to the students  

[Pushkin]

Any one else notice the amount of bread that has a short date on it in the supermarkets?  Must end up being donated to food groups, charities or homeless but a short date is the same for everyone.  Why don't they produce bread for the date given and then if overstocked give it to these folks, at least then it is still in date for them too. Seems barmy to me.

Pushkin

[Vince Green]

When I'm staying on my own in London I often use the too good to go app

You get a big carrier bag of left over food at the end of the day from shops and restaurants for £3-4