IF you are wasting food, you are wasting money.
As a nation, we chuck away a bonkers 10.2MILLION tonnes of food a year, with fruit and veg being among the most wasted.
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I love cooking and have found some new ways to improve my kitchen shelf life — and save some pounds in the process . . .
FREEZE IT: Fruit and veg can be saved if chopped up and portioned in the freezer.
Apples and especially berries can be blended into great smoothies at a later date.
Simply cut them up and save them in individual food bags or Tupperware. Remember to date it.
- PLAN IT: If you buy per meal, you will have bits you don’t need left over which will go off and end up in the bin.
So plan each meal in advance and if there are any leftovers, go to realfood.tesco.com and type in the ingredients. The site will suggest recipes specifically for your leftovers. Then you can plan your next meal and so on. - BLITZ IT: We have all ended up throwing away the last bits of salad bags. But catch them early before they turn and you can blend them with herbs to create a delicious pesto.
Add any nearly-off veg, such as peppers, to help create a delicious flavour. Then drizzle over a bowl of pasta or freeze it for future use. - BATCH IT: Buy in bulk, batch-cook what you have and you will often find you use everything. Doing it all at once means you are not leaving anything in the fridge to go off.
Use Tupperware to portion it out and once frozen, you have an easy microwave meal to hand on weeknights. - ORDER IT: Eat food in order of how easily it spoils — fresh fruit and veg to start with, then dry goods. Tinned goods will last an age.
- EXTEND IT: Roast dinners have a longer shelf life if you turn leftover vegetables into bubble and squeak — potato and cabbage especially — while a chicken carcass can be stripped and used for soup.
Both can make tasty next-day dinners . . . and an extra meal means extra savings.
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