It All Adds Up
There’s nothing like mealtimes to help us get creative and get together with people we love. Saving food does a lot more than just saving money – and every single slice of bread, potato and chicken breast saved makes a difference. It's good for our communities, our country and our planet, as well as our pockets.
Here in Scotland, many of us are already doing our bit to use more of the food we buy each week. Between us, we saved £92 million on our household budgets by reducing what we binned from our homes by 7% between 2009 and 2014. Not to mention saving 140,000 tonnes of CO2 a year - that’s like saving the climate change emissions from driving around the world 14 times. Just imagine how much we will all save when we meet the 2025 Scottish Government food waste target of reducing food waste by 33%! So, keeping good food out of the bin really does make a difference.
What’s next? How does it all add up? And how can we make sure we’re working together to drive an even bigger change? Take a look at what others are doing and think about what you can do to make a difference where you live – from the people going the extra mile, to the schools doing their bit to inspire a new generation.
“Between us, we’re saving £3.3 billion a year compared with 2007.”
Latest Articles
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Writer, allotmenteer and food charity worker Joe Hind on the joys of growing - and eating - strawberries
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Scottish initiative, Chefs @ School, are a finalist in the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) Awards 2018 with their food waste fighting soup workshops.
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Eggs are one of the most versatile ingredients in your kitchen. From frittatas to fry-ups, baking to boiling, they can be turned into something delicious for any meal. But sometimes, we may find ourselves with a couple too many.
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Prif awgrymiadau ar gyfer achub eich bananas o'r bin.
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Meet the Food Waste Heroes making a difference in their communities. First up: Donna Rodgers, Project Officer at Forth Environment Link in Stirling.
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The UK’s favourite animated rabbit is helping families reduce the amount of food that is binned from homes.
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It’s impossible to think of Scotland without thinking about the Big Three: haggis, neeps and tatties.
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New date labelling and storage guidance for food businesses will help us all to bin less food.
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It's that time of year again when the days are getting darker and colder and it's all about hearty comfort food - in other words, it's the season for soup! Soup is a great way to use up leftover or forgotten vegetables so what better an excuse to get schools bothered about broth?
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Keep your spuds fresher for longer by keeping them in a cool, dark, airy place, in the packaging you bought them in, or in a cloth bag if you prefer.
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Scots Waste 1.1 million pumpkins at Halloween
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Why you should try going the whole hog when eating meat to reduce what's wasted before it even gets to your plate.
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Visit Love Food Hate Waste Scotland for hints and tips, recipes and what’s happening near you.
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Go on, have a go! With your help, we can turn the tide on food waste in the UK.
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Root Soup is a catering company with a difference. They work with vulnerable people, growing vegetables and cooking organic soups.
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Volunteer Now promotes volunteering in Northern Ireland. Now they spread the food waste message to the groups they work with.
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“The training helped staff pick up key skills, which we can in turn pass on to [our] 600 plus users!”
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The Co-op and Love Food Hate Waste recently joined forces to help Co-op colleagues to make the most of their food and drink.
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Tesco add Love Food Hate Waste tips to selected fresh produce packs
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Christmas is coming – and ‘tis the season to be saving!
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Registered childminder Suzanne Romano took part in some Love Food Hate Waste in January 2015 and she's been an advocate of saving food ever since.
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In partnership with Everton's youth engagement workers, we helped organise cooking sessions for more than 30 young people at Goodison Park.
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We partnered with innovative packaging and hygiene solutions maker Sealed Air to inspire employees to food saving heroes.
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We've teamed up with Sainsbury's to give you an insight into ways we shop in Britain, and plenty of tips on how to make sure you don't fall into bad food-saving habits.
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Comedian, writer and poet Kate Fox shares her humorous new poems with us to celebrate our Fresher for Longer activity.
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The friendly people at Belfast Conservation Volunteers called on us to help them run a series of sessions to help their volunteers make the most of their community-grown produce, from portion control tips to composting and recycling.
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St Augustine’s C of E Primary School is topping the food-saving charts, having run over 25 sessions with local people, including 10 Cities cooking sessions in Manchester designed to reach parents through their children.
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As part of Glasgow Housing Association’s Food for Thought Programme, we were invited to create a workshop to help people save more food, using simple and effective ideas like our weekly food diary.
