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 the UK, millions of us are already doing our bit to use more of the food we buy each week. Between us, we’re saving £3.3 billion a year compared with 2007, not to mention saving 4.4 million tonnes of CO2 – that’s like taking 1.8 million cars off the road. 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.”
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Did you know that here in the UK each and every one of us throws away 110 kg of food every single year – that’s the same weight as a baby elephant or a female sea lion!
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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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“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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Volunteer Now promotes volunteering in Northern Ireland. Now they spread the food waste message to the groups they work with.
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Christmas is coming – and ‘tis the season to be saving!
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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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We partnered with innovative packaging and hygiene solutions maker Sealed Air to inspire employees to food saving heroes.
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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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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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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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Our 10 Cities programme caught the imagination of Glasgow’s NHS Health Improvement Team – and we were delighted to be invited to share our food-saving advice and guidance for use in cooking classes in deprived areas of Glasgow.
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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.
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Every day in UK homes, 1.9 million slices of ham are thrown in the bin. That's enough to make a ham sandwichs for every person in Glasgow.
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As part of our 10 Cities initiative in Belfast, we worked with the Indian Community Centre on Clifton Street to help their volunteers incorporate food-saving hints and tips in their activities within the community.
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With just a little encouragement, some help from us and armed the right knowledge, staff at First Choice housing were able to spread the food-saving word throughout Wales to colleagues and tenants.
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A whole range of organisations in Belfast City jumped at the chance to learn more about food saving and making the most of every mouthful – with a shared event that made the most of our expertise too.
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Aston University loved our everyday food-saving tips so much they decided to
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In partnership with Clear Pharmacy, we met the lovely local people of Mount Merrion to run a food-saving session focusing on health and wellbeing. The event was a big hit with everyone, helping residents to make the most of every mouthful.
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Social inclusion organisation Men United invited us along to support them in helping men over 55 years to get food-saving savvy, make their food last longer and feel good about cooking for one, on a budget.
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It takes water, energy, fuel and packaging to produce the food we love. It's a valuable resource and about half of what we throw away every year comes from UK households. If we all do our bit, we could save up to 7 million tonnes of food every year – here's how you can start with the simple spud.
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We helped JIGSO – a children’s charity in Cardigan – to share food-saving tips and advice with over 300 families in South West Wales, to help make their shopping budgets go further and make the most of the food they buy.
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We teamed up with kitchenware specialist Lakeland to help them make the most of their practical ideas with customers – from everyday utensils to the latest cookware.
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Prue Leith started her catering company Leith's Good Food and opened the Michelin-starred restaurant Leith's in the 1960s. In the 1970s she started Leith's School of Food and Wine and has since opened several training restaurants and a catering college in South Africa.
