Mission Food Savvy: veg reckoning
Move over spy heroes, salads and vegetables are where the action is this summer.
Your mission
Should you wish to accept it, is to help everything from tomatoes to cucumbers, carrots to broccoli, escape the clutches of the evil waste bin. Can you green-light more successful meal missions for our tasty friends?
Mission objective
Salad and vegetables are top of the most wasted foods – but they don’t have to be. With a little bit of savvy-craft, you can make sure nothing goes to waste. It’s a mission that could help you:
Save food – did you know households in Norfolk and Suffolk throw away enough food in a year to fill Norwich Castle almost 25 times over, or 155 Bury St Edmunds Cathedrals?
Save money – the average household wastes over two months’ worth of food shops each year (around £730)
Save the planet – when it comes to climate change, if everyone in the UK stopped throwing away food for just one day it would be like taking 14,000 cars off the road for a whole year
Be inspired by agents in the field
Agent Salad’s storage tips
Agent Bean’s run of recipes
Agent Broccoli’s head’s up on recipes
Agent Courgette’s covert cake recipes
Get creative with your missions
Your salad and veg face many perils on their mission to get eaten, but as their handler there’s plenty you can do to help them get served with distinction.
Licence to plan
Whether you’re throwing together a summer salad or turning the heat up on a stir fry, get ahead of your leftovers with a plan before you shop. Get briefed on savvy planning.
Live and let store
With the right intel, you can help salad and vegetables last longer. It doesn’t take much to keep them in top shape until you’re ready to get chopping. Find the smartest ways to store.
The leftover files
Plans change, but veggies and salad are versatile players – turn them into sleeper agents in the deep freeze or spice up a mission by sending them undercover in a curry. Discover more leftover hacks.
