Posted in Blog, Food Waste on 07. Mar, 2013
A Recipe for Cutting Food Waste According to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Americans are tossing up to 40 percent of the food supply each year, along with all the resources used to produce food that never gets eaten. Food waste occurs at home, on the farm, and in supermarkets. In this [...]
Posted in Blog, Food Waste on 11. Jan, 2013
As much as half of all the food produced in the world – two billion tonnes worth – ends up being thrown away, a new UK-based report claims. The waste is caused by poor infrastructure and storage facilities, over-strict sell-by dates, “get-one-free” offers, and consumer fussiness, according to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Each year [...]
Posted in Blog, Food Waste, News & products, Products on 08. Jan, 2013
Kevin from FriendlyPak talks about the benefits of composting. Summer is almost upon us, we are planting and tending to our gardens and organising our compost systems at home. It’s wonderful that today, if we chose we are able to compost so much more of our household waste because of the many compostable and biodegradable [...]
Posted in Baking, Blog, Food Waste, Light meals, Recipes on 26. Dec, 2012
Here is a great solution to using up that left over ham or turkey for a great meal on Boxing day. You can even throw in some of the left over roast spuds! I made a wholemeal short pastry but if you wanted to be super quick simply use store bought ready rolled flakey pastry, you [...]
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Food Waste, Recipes on 26. Dec, 2012
With summer berries in full season this is a great way to use up left over Christmas pudding or cake. It also works just as well with chocolate brownie or cake. Instead of the traditional custard a Zabaglione combines the fruit and cake to create these trifles. Zabaglione is an Italian dessert using whisked egg [...]
Posted in Blog, Food Waste, Meatless Monday, Recipes, Soup, Vegetables on 15. Oct, 2012
Towards the end of the week the vegetable compartment of my fridge resembles the trodden remnants and sweepings which litter a market stall at day’s end. Stalks of limp celery, soft carrots, forgotten bits of onion which almost made it into a weekday dish co-mingle wait for their coup de grace. Broccoli is there too [...]
Posted in Blog, Food Waste on 07. Sep, 2012
The figures are disturbing! Up to a third of the food produced in the world is wasted Food waste has 10 times the environmental impact of packaging (Source – International Packaging Institute study 2005) Half of the food thrown away in the US could feed the 1 billion malnourished people in the world. (Source – [...]
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