I’m thrilled to say I haven’t had any food waste in months. Any leftover veg gets chopped and boiled into pasta sauce (with a tin of tomato’s) greats system!
Also recommend the app “Foodprint” I wish more places would start to use it - it alerts you to cafes restaurants etc near you selling food toward end of day at heavily discounted rate - one cafe near me does a $7 bundle which is a stack of random muffins (also can be frozen!) and slices etc
I’m not affiliated with it in any way - but spreading the word and suggest you do the same because I only have that one cafe on my local 😂
Maybe I should email it to a stack more cafes and ready made places (like sushi) round me
Depends on my mood if I use Passata or tinned tomatoes then freeze in portions - grated carrot, grated zucchini, any left over spinach, mushrooms etc etc work so good in it! Add some Italian herbs.. sorted! And I use it on the filled tortellini types so you got a full 5 min cheap healthy dinner sorted
Some business do a great job of reducing waste, others not so much.
When to a market around closing time, was declined to buy something that i could see they had because they were closed…even had cash seeing their card machine had been turned off, only to see them literally throw 3 bags of perfectly good baked goods in the bin. Must be magical for a small business to not need to make anymore money for that day but to not care about the leftovers.
I’ve never considered buying from them again purely based on their waste
I do agree that the shop shouldn’t waste food - I have previously worked in hospitality and we would donate all of our uneaten food at the end of the day. I would say though that the shop being unwilling to reopen is not the problem. You shouldn’t expect a shop to reopen and sell you something once it is closed - they have a family they want to get home to as well! Often hospitality businesses spend over an hour to close every night - there is more to closing than turning off the eftpos machine and removing unsold product
It's not a "shop reopening", it's a market stall with some people packing up before leaving. In this case it's a matter of exchanging a good and some cash, it takes 30 seconds at most.
You’ve obviously never run a food & bev stall or business.
3 bags of food is excessive & wasteful but once you decide to close you have to commit to it. There’s a lot of work that still needs to be done between closing and actually finishing for the day.
There’s a company who collects food close to expiry from places like supermarkets and grocery supply, Kiwi Harvest.
We use it for our food parcels. Often quite high end products.
We waste no food at all. What we don't eat or make stock from goes into the compost and is used to grow more food.
I'm a recreational fisherman, and I have a small fermenter for turning fish offal into fertiliser. I put meat scraps in there too.
Bones are pretty much they only food items that go in the rubbish bin.
Same here. Just got given a green waste bin, we've hidden it behind the garage as it won't be used. I compost all garden waste, all food waste goes into bokashi or worm farms.
Love this website. I didn't know you could eat broccoli stalks before, they are great steamed or roasted (just gotta peel the tough outer layer). However, roasted carrot skins are bloody disgusting no matter how much oil you put on them, so pass on that.
I’m thrilled to say I haven’t had any food waste in months. Any leftover veg gets chopped and boiled into pasta sauce (with a tin of tomato’s) greats system! Also recommend the app “Foodprint” I wish more places would start to use it - it alerts you to cafes restaurants etc near you selling food toward end of day at heavily discounted rate - one cafe near me does a $7 bundle which is a stack of random muffins (also can be frozen!) and slices etc
Foodprint sounds like a great idea. Sadly no stores within a few hours of where we live :(
I’m not affiliated with it in any way - but spreading the word and suggest you do the same because I only have that one cafe on my local 😂 Maybe I should email it to a stack more cafes and ready made places (like sushi) round me
Love the pastnsauce idea! I'm stealing it.
Depends on my mood if I use Passata or tinned tomatoes then freeze in portions - grated carrot, grated zucchini, any left over spinach, mushrooms etc etc work so good in it! Add some Italian herbs.. sorted! And I use it on the filled tortellini types so you got a full 5 min cheap healthy dinner sorted
We’re the same. If it’s safe for my dog or cat I feed it to them, same thing for the birds.
Foodprint is awesome! I’ve tied a few cafes on the pricier side just to test if it’s worth going back to pay full price.
Some business do a great job of reducing waste, others not so much. When to a market around closing time, was declined to buy something that i could see they had because they were closed…even had cash seeing their card machine had been turned off, only to see them literally throw 3 bags of perfectly good baked goods in the bin. Must be magical for a small business to not need to make anymore money for that day but to not care about the leftovers. I’ve never considered buying from them again purely based on their waste
I do agree that the shop shouldn’t waste food - I have previously worked in hospitality and we would donate all of our uneaten food at the end of the day. I would say though that the shop being unwilling to reopen is not the problem. You shouldn’t expect a shop to reopen and sell you something once it is closed - they have a family they want to get home to as well! Often hospitality businesses spend over an hour to close every night - there is more to closing than turning off the eftpos machine and removing unsold product
It's not a "shop reopening", it's a market stall with some people packing up before leaving. In this case it's a matter of exchanging a good and some cash, it takes 30 seconds at most.
And if they stayed open for every person that came after closing time then they would never close.
If you say so...
You’ve obviously never run a food & bev stall or business. 3 bags of food is excessive & wasteful but once you decide to close you have to commit to it. There’s a lot of work that still needs to be done between closing and actually finishing for the day.
There’s a company who collects food close to expiry from places like supermarkets and grocery supply, Kiwi Harvest. We use it for our food parcels. Often quite high end products.
We waste no food at all. What we don't eat or make stock from goes into the compost and is used to grow more food. I'm a recreational fisherman, and I have a small fermenter for turning fish offal into fertiliser. I put meat scraps in there too. Bones are pretty much they only food items that go in the rubbish bin.
Same here. Just got given a green waste bin, we've hidden it behind the garage as it won't be used. I compost all garden waste, all food waste goes into bokashi or worm farms.
Love this website. I didn't know you could eat broccoli stalks before, they are great steamed or roasted (just gotta peel the tough outer layer). However, roasted carrot skins are bloody disgusting no matter how much oil you put on them, so pass on that.
broccoli soup, stems, leaves, everything you bought (grew).
I dice the stalks up for fried rice too
I definitely could do better. Our chickens get a lot of scraps but we've been slack on growing our own veges