How Much Food Do YOU Waste?

Before getting our Allotment, food would regularly go to waste in our fridge, onions could grow long green shoots in the cupboard and oranges grow mould in the fruit bowl. I've even been known to forget about an organic veg box that was delivered in the back yard...totally wasted.

Shopping day would arrive and the first job would be to bin all the stuff we'd not used and was past it's best, before putting the new stuff away.

All that money, never mind all that food, down the drain.

Now, since getting the Allotment Bug my attitude has changed somewhat - the connection to the very soil where your food grows, actually digging up those carrots you are going to have for dinner, gives you a respect for it. Now I've gone the other way, and try use up everything (so much so that the kids see the empty fridge and ask me if we are poor!)

Now, most of our fresh food waste gets composted - veg peelings, eggshell, left-over fruit, used teabags...it all gets saved in our home-made table-top compost bins and then taken up to the allotment. Some gets turned into manure via our rabbit too!

Being involved in the whole gardening and growing your own thing really does affect the way you see food - as more and more people are being bitten by the trend, this can only be a good thing for ourselves and the environment.