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Friday, 9 December 2011
'The Only Way is Local'
These websites all deliver fresh and local produce to your door, primarily fruit and veg but some also provide dairy, bakery and free-range eggs.
Some are a little more expensive than others but browse and see what they can offer – get together and plan your meals for the next couple of days, utilising everything that you order and cook delicious, healthy and home cooked meals.
You might be surprised ;)
Ps. Don’t forget to take photos of the meals you make… even if it’s a little wonky, burnt or not quite ‘glamorous’ enough for the celeb chef cook book!
http://www.localfarmbox.co.uk/boxes.php - this one worked out cheaper than Tesco’s (good for wallet and veg morality)
FareShare - one of Britains most admired charities
Take a look: http://www.fareshare.org.uk/
FareShare is a national UK charity supporting communities to relieve food poverty. FareShare is at the centre of two of the most urgent issues that face the UK: food poverty and food waste.
The charity addresses these issues in three ways:
Providing quality food - surplus ‘fit for purpose’ product from the food and drink industry – to organisations working with disadvantaged people in the community
Providing training and education around the essential life skills of safe food preparation and nutrition, and warehouse employability training through FareShare’s Eat Well Live Well programme
Promoting the message that ‘No Good Food Should Be Wasted’Hope for the 'wonky carrot' abandoned by our supermarket giants...
18th November 2011
BBC News
Waste food feeds 5,000 for lunch at Trafalgar Square
Wonky carrots, misshapen potatoes and tonnes of food rejected by supermarkets have been used to give 5,000 people a free curry lunch in Trafalgar Square.
The event organised by charities and farmers aimed to show that a lot of food binned in the UK could be eaten.Official figures released this week suggest the average British family wastes £680 worth of food a year.
Organisers want people to sign a pledge promising to reduce their food waste and are asking firms to do the same.
"Feeding the 5000" is a partnership between farmers and a group of environmental charities that campaign for better use of surplus food - FareShare, FoodCycle, Love Food Hate Waste and Friends of the Earth.
It was organised by writer Tristram Stuart, who has described the amount of food thrown away in the West as a "global scandal".
"Delicious food"
Mayor of London Boris Johnson was on hand to dish up the first bowl of food. He said it was for politicians to take a lead and help change people's opinions.
He said the public had become prejudiced against misshapen veg.
"Mutant food, this stuff is great to eat. It's completely crackers that good healthy stuff like this is being sent to landfill," he said.
"Feeding the 5000 brings to life the idea that all food is good food, and every morsel of it is too good to waste."
As well as asking the public to pledge to change their ways, businesses are being asked to sign up to use the "Feeding the 5000 pyramid".
Take note:
It is made up of promise to reduce as much waste as possible, redistribute surpluses to charity, use what is left as animal feed if possible, recycle through composting and anaerobic digestion and only put food waste in landfill if there is no other option.
Full story at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15772773
Love Food Hate Waste
Did you know that we throw away 7.2 million tonnes of food from our homes every year in the UK?
And would you have guessed that if we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the CO2 impact would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 5 cars off the road?
Think about it – how much fresh food do you throw away?
With the introduction of food waste bins we are now embarrassingly aware of the sheer quantity of food we throw away that has simply gone past its sell by date, never mind if it actually looks ‘off’.
We all get tempted by the ‘buy one get one free’ offers in the supermarkets and “buy 2 for £3” but realistically are we actually going to eat 18 clementines’ before the suspiciously short use by date? Surely a better deal for all is ‘half price’ instead of “here, have much too many clementines”?
www.lovefoodhatewaste.com is campaign to help all of us to waste less food. Have a look around at the handy tips and recipes designed to encourage and educate all of us to reduce our food waste and be more sensible about the food we buy and what we do with it once we’ve spent our precious £’s on it.
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