Battling Food Waste will help fight climate change by reducing energy consumption and also saving money for the average household.
When my mother passed away at the glorious age of 81, she had been smoking for 67 years. Yes, she started at 14 when she started work — almost everybody did. I did the calculations and worked out that she had smoked a house . My father’s uncles, on the other hand, inherited the family farm in Yorkshire and borrowed against it to finance their drinking habits and eventually died penniless. I am not entirely guiltless — having eaten enough chocolate to sink a ship.
These are the sins of our forefathers, but I wonder if this current generation isn’t much better. Amongst the high-profile issues of problem gambling, excessive drinking, and illicit drugs, the mostly ignored issue of food wastage is costing households dearly.demonstrated the extent of the problem. We eat too much takeaway and we throw away good food.
Some simple rules would help — buy what you need, eat what you buy while it is fresh, eat up leftovers from meals. Rotate the food in the fridge — it’s not nice to find a month-old orange stuffed up the back going slowly green and furry. Use takeaway as a treat not as a staple part of the diet. If you are eating takeaway more than four times a week, it is too much.
It is worth checking the kiddies’ bags when they get home from school to see what they haven’t eaten. As a teacher, I saw many primary age children throw their food in the bin so that they could go and play! Then they arrive home starving and demanding treats. On the other hand, if they bring home lunchboxes full of food, it is worth finding out why they didn’t eat it, what else could be given them. Also, they can eat that before they ask for afternoon tea.
Not only will good food management bring benefits to your wallet and your health; it is also a weapon in the fight to slow climate change. Producing food uses energy; wasting food wastes energy, water, and money. We should all be battling food waste.
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