Could you go a whole week without producing any food waste?
Statistics show that 20 per cent of all the food we buy gets chucked away – a figure that’s risen since 2012. Although, realistically, it’s tricky to eliminate every scrap of your food waste, minimising it is a goal we can all work towards. We asked food writer Ramona Andrews and her family to try a no-waste challenge for a week. Here’s how they got on
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SEXY PEEL? Ramona found that her sons Rudy, eight, and Erland, six, enjoyed some of her waste-saving recipes more than others
“My photographer husband Joe and I have two unpredictable boys whose appetites (and tastes) change on a whim. Our family’s freelance lifestyle can be as random as the ingredients that come in the veg box. We try to rely on rough meal plans to get through the week. But even the best plans aren’t always family-proof, so we’re often left with odds and ends to get inventive with.
It’s easy to look in the fridge and see half a pepper, a cube of feta and some wilting herbs and think ‘better get to the shops’. But there is another way. A quick rummage around the storecupboard and there we are: the makings of a quick pasta supper.
When delicious.asked us if I could go for a week without producing any edible food waste, I was up for the challenge. How hard could it be? Quite hard, as it turns out…”