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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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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.

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.

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?

ninat

Joined: 01 Feb 2009
Posts: 606
Location: Scotland

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 12 10:52 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.

I agree- head to ours 1hr before closing and all the nice bread is massivley reduced. I buy it & pop it in the freezer.

Aeolienne

Joined: 03 Apr 2008
Posts: 1498
Location: Leamington Spa, Warks

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 12 5:35 pm Post subject:
I'm intrigued by Julian Watts's comment at the end of this link: Calls grow for ban on sending food waste to landfill. Has anyone here bought from Approved Food?

toggle

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 11622
Location: truro

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 12 5:41 pm Post subject:

Aeolienne wrote:

Has anyone here bought from Approved Food?

yep, anything that's an awesome bargain tends to sell out pretty fast, but i've picked up loads of stuff cheaper. careful through, some isn't cheaper than it would be on a supermarket offer, and there really is only so much couscous that anyone can eat.

Aeolienne

Joined: 03 Apr 2008
Posts: 1498
Location: Leamington Spa, Warks

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 12 12:26 pm Post subject:
Reducing food waste? There's an app for that... Linky

oldish chris

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

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 12 2:13 pm Post subject:

wildfoodie wrote:

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?

The "fresh" food will have travelled many miles, maybe halfway round the globe, it will have been moved from storage depot to storage depot, through packers, warehouses, distributors etc. When the vendor works out a "use-by" date he has factored in the probability that the food will have spent part of that time in less than perfect conditions and then added on a bit for contingency.

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