The announcement today about the amount of food being thrown away.
Dreadful.
Is this a consequence of our new enlightened age where women work and the fridge is crammed with food at the Friday weekly shop (bound to go off by Tuesday) or a consequence of the supermarket 'super-sell' with two for one deals?
Sorry if the feminists amongst us think this thread sexist, it's not. It's a genuine question about our current lifestyle.
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we don't get a lot of buy on get one free in our local farm shop, but then we don't buy more than we need unless we get something like a sack of potatoes to which we just divide it with our immediate family.
i find supermarket veg bland and tasteless as i also do with their meat.
sorry but supermarkets are for those that can't make the time to shop properly and those that prefer convenience over taste and quality.
i find supermarket veg bland and tasteless as i also do with their meat.
sorry but supermarkets are for those that can't make the time to shop properly and those that prefer convenience over taste and quality.
Sex God
Todays news
Supermarket giant Tesco has revealed it generated almost 30,000 tonnes of food waste in the first six months of 2013. Of that total, 21% was made up of fruit and vegetables and 41% of bakery items.
whilst reading
Our National Food Collections, in partnership with leading charities Fareshare and the Trussell Trust, help feed people in need in communities across the UK. In our first National Collection in December 2012, we collected and donated enough food for meals and we are now striving to make the scheme bigger and better, with further National Collections planned, as well as work to address surplus food in our supply chain.
Pretty sure that most Food Banks, emergency shelter meal providers, Salvation Army meals, etc. would love just a fraction of that wastage per day from Tesco
Supermarket giant Tesco has revealed it generated almost 30,000 tonnes of food waste in the first six months of 2013. Of that total, 21% was made up of fruit and vegetables and 41% of bakery items.
whilst reading
Our National Food Collections, in partnership with leading charities Fareshare and the Trussell Trust, help feed people in need in communities across the UK. In our first National Collection in December 2012, we collected and donated enough food for meals and we are now striving to make the scheme bigger and better, with further National Collections planned, as well as work to address surplus food in our supply chain.
Pretty sure that most Food Banks, emergency shelter meal providers, Salvation Army meals, etc. would love just a fraction of that wastage per day from Tesco
Sex God
Quote by Lizaleanrob
we don't get a lot of buy on get one free in our local farm shop, but then we don't buy more than we need unless we get something like a sack of potatoes to which we just divide it with our immediate family.
i find supermarket veg bland and tasteless as i also do with their meat.
sorry but supermarkets are for those that can't make the time to shop properly and those that prefer convenience over taste and quality.
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Sex God
Quote by HnS
Todays news
Supermarket giant Tesco has revealed it generated almost 30,000 tonnes of food waste in the first six months of 2013. Of that total, 21% was made up of fruit and vegetables and 41% of bakery items.
whilst reading
Our National Food Collections, in partnership with leading charities Fareshare and the Trussell Trust, help feed people in need in communities across the UK. In our first National Collection in December 2012, we collected and donated enough food for meals and we are now striving to make the scheme bigger and better, with further National Collections planned, as well as work to address surplus food in our supply chain.
Pretty sure that most Food Banks, emergency shelter meal providers, Salvation Army meals, etc. would love just a fraction of that wastage per day from Tesco
i do wonder how many people have worked out who pays for all the wasted food
And for those that haven't worked it out, it is us the shopper. when pricing your goods for sale all companies have to take into account wastage and theft.
Now the local butcher may not suffer much from theft but would be silly not to at least consider it and work out if that cost applies to his shop, after all there is theft by the public and theft by staff, a lamb chop here, a pencil, some fabric, all suppliers have to take that into account.
For other retailers for example curtain material suppliers there will always be a line that just does not sell, all these costs are taken into account by the wise businessperson when setting the base price for goods.
It shows the stupidity of the shoplifter on the channel 5 programme this evening who said "I don't steal from people only the big stores" shame it is the people that pay the cost.
Sell by dates have always annoyed me, programmes have proved that many products are given sell by dates that are way ahead of their time, usually the product has a further 2 weeks shelf life of stored correctly.
Tinned goods are far worse, in the Forces ration packs have a 25 year rotation plan, at least they "did in my day" lol. that means that the ration pack I opened and enjoyed had actually been packed 25 years before I opened it, the pack that was put together that day replaced it for use 25 years later. Then the law changed and suppliers were told they had to give a sell by or use by date on products, now who was going to put a date on a can of beans 25 years on, no people would stock pile, put 1 or 2 years on it and it won't stop people buying a few cans in advance but they wont buy 500 cans when they are on offer at 7p a can.
I regularly eat a variety of "Out of date" foodstuffs, Sasha won't eat them but I have never suffered a bad reaction, I obviously use the sight, smell, texture checks of course.
I am lucky that I have a huge butchers outlet within walking distance and a farm shop even closer but do use supermarkets extensively too.
I have a "soup making" machine whereby you just stick the ingredients in, switch it on and half an hour later you have perfect soup suitable for freezing, when potatoes are looking like they won't be eaten that week I roast and freeze them, my freezer is full but generally with things that would have been thrown away, I buy a lot of "whoops" goods on their sell by dates and freeze them. Though it always amazes me that I can buy the same pies every single week at a fraction of their shelf cost because the local co-op simply don't realise how many they sell a week.
I have 3 freezers and very little waste. My best buy was from a 2nd hand book stall at the market where I bought a book "the essential guide to freezing food" it is amazing just how much fresh food can be frozen and how little prep some of it needs, true some things are a bit "watery" when frozen but stick them in a stew or pie and it makes no difference.
Not bad for a GEEZER eh!!!
Now the local butcher may not suffer much from theft but would be silly not to at least consider it and work out if that cost applies to his shop, after all there is theft by the public and theft by staff, a lamb chop here, a pencil, some fabric, all suppliers have to take that into account.
For other retailers for example curtain material suppliers there will always be a line that just does not sell, all these costs are taken into account by the wise businessperson when setting the base price for goods.
It shows the stupidity of the shoplifter on the channel 5 programme this evening who said "I don't steal from people only the big stores" shame it is the people that pay the cost.
Sell by dates have always annoyed me, programmes have proved that many products are given sell by dates that are way ahead of their time, usually the product has a further 2 weeks shelf life of stored correctly.
Tinned goods are far worse, in the Forces ration packs have a 25 year rotation plan, at least they "did in my day" lol. that means that the ration pack I opened and enjoyed had actually been packed 25 years before I opened it, the pack that was put together that day replaced it for use 25 years later. Then the law changed and suppliers were told they had to give a sell by or use by date on products, now who was going to put a date on a can of beans 25 years on, no people would stock pile, put 1 or 2 years on it and it won't stop people buying a few cans in advance but they wont buy 500 cans when they are on offer at 7p a can.
I regularly eat a variety of "Out of date" foodstuffs, Sasha won't eat them but I have never suffered a bad reaction, I obviously use the sight, smell, texture checks of course.
I am lucky that I have a huge butchers outlet within walking distance and a farm shop even closer but do use supermarkets extensively too.
I have a "soup making" machine whereby you just stick the ingredients in, switch it on and half an hour later you have perfect soup suitable for freezing, when potatoes are looking like they won't be eaten that week I roast and freeze them, my freezer is full but generally with things that would have been thrown away, I buy a lot of "whoops" goods on their sell by dates and freeze them. Though it always amazes me that I can buy the same pies every single week at a fraction of their shelf cost because the local co-op simply don't realise how many they sell a week.
I have 3 freezers and very little waste. My best buy was from a 2nd hand book stall at the market where I bought a book "the essential guide to freezing food" it is amazing just how much fresh food can be frozen and how little prep some of it needs, true some things are a bit "watery" when frozen but stick them in a stew or pie and it makes no difference.
Not bad for a GEEZER eh!!!
