Food Waste Action Week
This year we will be supporting Love Food Hate Waste’s Food Waste Action Week campaign. We are encouraging everyone to buy their fruit and veg loose.
Shopping for tonight ’s dinner? Find the right jacket potatoes to fit your family. Whipping up an apple crumble? Pick exactly the number of apples you need. Plus, you ’ll be saving food and plastic from going to waste.
There are many benefits to shopping loose; whether it’s reducing the amount of plastic waste ending up in the bin or the freedom to choose exactly what you want. Like your bananas over -ripe? Like your apples extra red? Buy loose and get exactly what you fancy.
Did you know? Buying loose reduces food waste - WRAP research has shown that if all apples, bananas and potatoes were sold loose, we could save 60,000 tonnes of food waste by enabling people to buy closer to their needs.
Our Top Tips to help you buy loose
Planning
Plan your meals so you know how much fruit or vegetables you need - so when you get to the shop, it is easier to make that choice to buy loose! Try Love Food Hate Waste’s Portion Calculator to help work out what you need!
Embrace maths!
Remember converting kg to grams at school? Well use those skills when your at the shop to price compare a bag of carrots to loose per kg - you may well be surprised that it can often be cheaper to buy loose!
Storage
When you get home from the shops, remember to store your fruit and vegetables correctly so they last as long as possible. Visit our storage page for top tips!
Greengrocers
Try your local greengrocer if there is one near you - they sell most of their fruit and vegetables loose - making it easy to choose what you’ll use!
Take a separate bag
You may wish to take a separate bag to put your loose fruit and vegetables in - that way they are protected from your other items and any dirt is contained to one bag.
COMPETITION TIME!
To celebrate Food Waste Action Week, we are giving 2 residents the chance to win a £100 supermarket voucher - by showing us you’ve bought loose fruit and veg. Visit this page for all the details and terms and conditions.
For more top tips on how to get involved with Food Waste Action Week and to buy loose where you can visit Love Food Hate Waste’s website.
