According to tonight's news - really the stuff that's reported when there's no real news - half the food in the world goes to waste. Or is it just the western world? It's usually the fault of the western world, whatever it is. Cue dramatic pictures of lorries dumping perfectly good food, reporters looking disapproving - yada yada.
Not a word about businesses like Greggs, Pret a manger and Tesco passing unsold food on to charities to feed the homeless, on a daily basis.
Can we get real here? Instead of putting ads on TV exhorting us to make a list before we go shopping - yeah, right, and you''ve never bought anything in a shop on the spur of the moment cos it looked good or you were hungry at the time. Instead of that, can we do maybe one wee thing to save on food waste?
I don't know how many people in the UK live in one person households - maybe millions? Have you ever shopped for one person? Try buying a stir fry - feeds two. Or a portion of fish - feeds two. If you do find something that's advertised as being 'for one', you'll probably find it costs more than the 'family size.'
I don't take the bogoffs in supermarkets if I can avoid them or can pass on the second item to family. But I've lost count of the number of times I've thrown out fresh food that I had to buy because there aren't smaller options available. So that's my suggestion: make it possible to buy food - especially fresh food - in smaller helpings, at reasonable prices.
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