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Top tips

Try our top tips and ideas for making the most of the food we buy. Find out what types of food can be frozen and how to make your fridge a true food saving hero. Why not share your own tips to reduce food waste with fellow Love Food Hate Waste supporters.

5 Latest Tips

Porridge in an instant

Submitted by Georgina Harris, Surrey

If like me you love real porridge but hate washing the pan this is what I do - make a big saucepan of porridge, enough for a good few portions, and then divide it up and store in plastic containers in the fridge. In the mornings you can just pop it in the microwave, add your favourite topping and eat it straight from the tub! It keeps in the fridge for several days and even tastes good cold!
Shopping

Submitted by Kate, Bedford

I buy the £1 bowls of mushrooms and peppers from the market. Now as there are only two of us I chop them all up put them into small amounts and put them straight into the freezer. When cooking a Spag Bol they get thrown straight in the frying pan, Also good when you find mushrooms cheap in the supermarket!
Banana Ice cream

Submitted by Marion Lawton, East Kilbride

If you have bananas that are starting to turn speckly, chop them and freeze them. You can then put them in the food processor and process into delicious healthy "ice cream" it doesn't need sugar as the bananas are sweet enough but adding a touch of creamed coconut adds a lovely tropical flavour.
Freeze vegetables and herbs

Submitted by Cheryl, Fife

If I need a red or green chilli pepper for cooking I find you can only buy them in a bunch of 5 and then you use one and the other 4 go soft quickly. So, I buy them, reduced price if possible, in a bunch of 5 and use 1 and put the others in the freezer. Freezing them not only makes them last longer but they are easier to cut and to scrape the seeds out if you want and they cook quicker from frozen. I do the same with onions and reduced price herbs.
Frozen Onions

Submitted by Melanie, Newcastle

Onions can be diced and frozen if you have a few that need to be eaten before you have the time to use them.