WASTED!
HOW NOT TO WASTE . . . FOOD
UP TO 2.5 MILLION tonnes of edible food is wasted by Australian households each year, equating to around 300kg per person, according to Foodbank Australia. These three rules can help you turn that around:
1 BE REALISTIC WITH WHAT YOU’RE BUYING.
People are aspirational at the grocery store, says Dana Gunders, interim executive director of an anti-food-waste group ReFED. “They hope to cook more and eat better, and then life happens. By Wednesday, they’re ordering pizza and the food is rotting. Beware of overbuying and plan for lazy nights. We all have them.”
2 SAVE (AND SAVOUR) YOUR SCRAPS.
Recipes (and food Instagram accounts) train you to eat the nice-looking parts of foods (broccoli crowns) while ditching the “ugly” parts (broccoli
