Are you a food waster?
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Buy a small bread maker and bake your own. **** easy to do.
Small loaves, gets used without waste and always fresh.
Timer function is awesome, bung the ingredients into the pan last thing at night... wake up to fresh bread Om bloody nommy!
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Oh yea and wastage, I hate it. Mother is terrible, she loves to garden, we grow pretty much everything but you just cant eat a whole tree full of apples, she works so bloody hard at picking them, storing them and such like but never to any avail, half of it goes rotten.
I've gone on and on about doing a little stall outside the front gate for produce we ain't ever going to use. It's like talking to a brick wall though.
You'd have thought at aged 73 she'd have calmed it down a bit, but no, still out digging planting, weeding, then cooking, storing and freezing like we are about to have an apocalypse
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Soldato
If I don't eat it, my dog used to but there's always the local foxes.
Soldato
Oh yea and wastage, I hate it. Mother is terrible, she loves to garden, we grow pretty much everything but you just cant eat a whole tree full of apples, she works so bloody hard at picking them, storing them and such like but never to any avail, half of it goes rotten.
I've gone on and on about doing a little stall outside the front gate for produce we ain't ever going to use. It's like talking to a brick wall though.
You'd have thought at aged 73 she'd have calmed it down a bit, but no, still out digging planting, weeding, then cooking, storing and freezing like we are about to have an apocalypse
I wonder if she could offload them to a local school or something. Anything is better than letting them rot.
I tend to keep the majority of the loaf in the freezer and just have a few slices out each day. Never had it going off that way.
As for pate, tie the packet up in a small bag after opening. I usually wolf that down though
Man of Honour
We try not to waste it. It usually get reheated or fed to the neighbours fat cats.
Caporegime
I left more than half a curry with rice behind on Sunday.
The portions were huge!
The portions were huge!
Soldato
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I hate the fact that I can't waste food, if I've cooked it for myself there is no way it's going to be wasted. It's the reason I'm fat to be honest, I litterally clean my plate, if it's a Chilli or Curry I won't stop until every last grain of rice I've put on my plate is gone. The main part of my diet is cooking less and eating smaller portions.
Yeah it's actually a lot healthier to eat lot's of small meals throughout the day rather than 2-3 big meals seeing as it's a lot easier to digest.
Soldato
If I can save stuff and eat it another day I do. I'm not strict about expiry dates except with stuff like chicken or if it's truly ancient... a lot of other stuff is just common sense though; if it looks alright, tastes alright, then it is alright. I stop eating when I'm full, rather than being like my dad who's "can't waste it" attitude means practically drinking leftover gravy and stuff like that.
Work at a typical large supermarket for a while and you'll cry about how much perfectly good food they throw away. Joys of rampant consumerism. As a former weekend worker at the UK's most popular supermarket, I begrudgingly had to lob
over 1500 bags of Maris Piper potatoes one Christmas because they were BOGOF and they'd massively over-estimated demand. The display date (not the use by date) was Xmas day, and naturally the store was shut then. This didn't include the £10-12k of other stuff JUST from fruit and veg I lobbed. Didn't give it away as apparently people are too likely to sell it on [/eyeroll].
Waste for the dep. for the week typically varied anywhere from £1-5k, depending on competence of staff/management at the time. Most of it edible, depressing really as it does feel criminal to have to bin so much that there's nothing wrong with.
The actual system for avoiding waste (i.e. reductions, when stuff is reduced and by how much, rotating stock etc) was poorly executed most of the time though, so it could be avoided, however the eternal problem is that it's a big issue when you're on £100k as a store manager with performance targets... but the guy getting close to minimum wage on the shop floor tends to not give a ****.
Work at a typical large supermarket for a while and you'll cry about how much perfectly good food they throw away. Joys of rampant consumerism. As a former weekend worker at the UK's most popular supermarket, I begrudgingly had to lob
over 1500 bags of Maris Piper potatoes one Christmas because they were BOGOF and they'd massively over-estimated demand. The display date (not the use by date) was Xmas day, and naturally the store was shut then. This didn't include the £10-12k of other stuff JUST from fruit and veg I lobbed. Didn't give it away as apparently people are too likely to sell it on [/eyeroll].
Waste for the dep. for the week typically varied anywhere from £1-5k, depending on competence of staff/management at the time. Most of it edible, depressing really as it does feel criminal to have to bin so much that there's nothing wrong with.
The actual system for avoiding waste (i.e. reductions, when stuff is reduced and by how much, rotating stock etc) was poorly executed most of the time though, so it could be avoided, however the eternal problem is that it's a big issue when you're on £100k as a store manager with performance targets... but the guy getting close to minimum wage on the shop floor tends to not give a ****.
Soldato
It just takes longer to digest. Some famous bodybuilders just get by on one big meal a day, some 2, some 3, some 6. Main thing is finding what works for you and works around the kind of training you do (if any) or lifestyle you have.The whole meal frequency thing is overhyped to the extreme by 'bro science'.
Caporegime
Yes,
I lived with an American when i was a student, would spend £20 quid on breakfast, ordering 1 of everything near enough, eat 3 mouthfuls then leave it all. Most wasteful guy ive ever met.
Soldato
Could the chaps who have saved left overs in the fridge please remember to post a thread in the morning asking if its ok to eat please. Cheers.
Yeah and the longer something takes to digest the more of it that gets stored as fat if I remember right
Soldato
I have a few reasons to why I don't like to waste food.
I have just left home, but talking when I was at home:
1) I didn't pay for it, it is ****ing cheeky to bin it when I didn't go to work to earn the money to pay for it.
2) Food that has been planted, grown, collected, sent to supermarket, bought and then for me to just throw away doesn't make any sense (I am studying environmental engineering stuff as a postgraduate).
3) My parents spent time cooking it, after a long day at work, using their time, their electricity+gas, again which I do not pay for.
4) I have always been a bit of a pig and tend to finish what is on my plate
be selfish sometimes. I'm not going to continue stuffing my face once I've had enough, regardless of who I might offend.
Soldato
I hardly ever waste food. After all, it's food!
I do get annoyed by people who serve themselves mountains but then seem to lose interest after a few bites. It's disrespectful to the person who made it.
I do get annoyed by people who serve themselves mountains but then seem to lose interest after a few bites. It's disrespectful to the person who made it.
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I never waste food myself.
If they is anything left the dog will have it in her bowl. :L
If they is anything left the dog will have it in her bowl. :L
Man of Honour
At home: I waste nothing when catering for myself. I have years of experience on how much to buy to cover a set period.
Eating out: depends on what you eating. Indian food always gets over-ordered, others less so. But it's kind of expected here.
Cooking for others: it's rude NOT to cook too much. The exception is cooking for someone you cook a lot for, where you usually come to an (unspoken) agreement on how much you eat between you.
M
Eating out: depends on what you eating. Indian food always gets over-ordered, others less so. But it's kind of expected here.
Cooking for others: it's rude NOT to cook too much. The exception is cooking for someone you cook a lot for, where you usually come to an (unspoken) agreement on how much you eat between you.
M