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Did you know Supermarkets throw away an estimated 400,000 Tons Of Food that could be reclaimed a year?

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oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 12 7:29 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

This thread got me wondering about the amounts of food 'wasted' before it ever gets to retailers. This is a country where we shoot dead, annually, bull calves with a (very conservative) potential meat yield of 9000 tonnes. Waste is something we are very good at.

Trying to get us back on thread?

My understanding is that the supermarkets do their best to keep wastage out of their section of the food process. So lots of waste takes place on the farm. There is also pickie consumers which means that offal gets wasted (although the Chinese are buying it up) and as Rob points out veal is out of fashion.

My part in this is to hunt out "short dated" bargains in the local Coop. Been known to pop out a 7pm for a bit of bread

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 12 7:29 pm Post subject:
Thanks for the offer - I think I have that one - 'how to make your margarine ration feed twenty people', that sort of thing? There's a really good website that someone on here pointed me to, as well - I can't remember what it is though. No wonder everyone was nice and thin!

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 12 7:33 pm Post subject:
Sometimes I don't bother with a shopping list when going to the coop, just look for the orange stickers. They seem to be better than most supermarkets for reducing shortdated stuff.

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 12 7:38 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

Sometimes I don't bother with a shopping list when going to the coop, just look for the orange stickers. They seem to be better than most supermarkets for reducing shortdated stuff.

When i pop round to the Coop to get something for lunch, its often a big surprise!

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 12 7:53 pm Post subject:

Chez wrote:

I'm still interested in living on wartime rations - I think it would be an interesting exercise.

https://1940sexperiment.wordpress.com/

Carolyn is currently being a vegan on WW2 rations - which is a challenge too far for my taste, but she doing so well with her weight loss and is so honest and open - I love reading her blog.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 12 7:54 pm Post subject:
That's the badger. Thank you, Marigold.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 12 6:53 am Post subject:

marigold wrote:

Chez wrote:

I'm still interested in living on wartime rations - I think it would be an interesting exercise.

Indeed. Powdered quorn, anyone?

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 12 7:14 am Post subject:
Indeed. Powdered quorn, anyone?[/quote] Not even in wartime, thank you.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 12 8:58 am Post subject:

marigold wrote:

https://1940sexperiment.wordpress.com/

* adds mind bleach to the shopping list *

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 12 9:21 am Post subject:

marigold wrote:

Indeed. Powdered quorn, anyone?

Not even in wartime, thank you.[/quote]

Indeed. Come friendly bombs, and fall on Marlow (Foods Ltd.).

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 12 9:41 am Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

marigold wrote:

https://1940sexperiment.wordpress.com/

* adds mind bleach to the shopping list *

astra

Joined: 05 Apr 2010
Posts: 1243
Location: Somerset

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 12 7:20 pm Post subject:

[quote="oldish chris:1261954"]

Rob R wrote:

as Rob points out veal is out of fashion.

I thought there was a good market for rose veal now?

astra

Joined: 05 Apr 2010
Posts: 1243
Location: Somerset

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 12 7:40 pm Post subject:

Chez wrote:

I'm still interested in living on wartime rations - I think it would be an interesting exercise.

Seems we did it all the time our kids were growing up...we just didn't' know it...we were just very hard up and had little choice!!

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 12 8:56 pm Post subject:

[quote="astra:1286140"]

oldish chris wrote:

Rob R wrote:

as Rob points out veal is out of fashion.

I thought there was a good market for rose veal now?

There's a better market it for it but it's still far from being 'in fashion'. As long as calves continue to be shot, food is still being wasted.

Food is not yet in short supply, as it was in wartime. People are still very affluent, on the whole, and can be picky & choosy about what little money (as a proportion of income) they do spend on food, and by that I mean real food, not the massive recreational food market that now exists which just didn't in wartime Britain.

Food prices are going up, but not enough to make up for the huge funding gap that has existed in the food production industry throughout my 30 year lifetime.

wildfoodie

Joined: 05 Apr 2005
Posts: 2169

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 12 9:35 pm Post subject:

oldish chris wrote:

basically, if food (we're including raw chicken in this) has not been correctly stored, by the "use by" date, its still OK (e.g. the journey from refrigerated lorry to cold store might take a while).

what? are you saying its legally ok for a food seller to mess around with storage and still sell the food?

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