"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Alan Holmes" writes:
| "Mary Fisher" wrote in message
| t...
| "Des Higgins" wrote in message
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| ... The wormery was
| for small volumes of kitchen waste (rice, fois gras, caviar past
best
| by date etc.). ...
|
| How on Earth do you have such leftovers? We never had food leftovers
here
| but I wouldn't put them on the garden compost heap even if we did.
|
| Me too!

Why on earth not? I do. And I have difficulty in believing that you
NEVER forget anything in the fridge, decide that food is too horrible
to eat, or have nothing left over for any of the other common reasons.

It might be difficult for you. For people who've been poor - and hungry -
it's not. We waste nothing.

I've been to the farmers' market this morning (before breakfast) and bought
a magnificent lettuce. The outer leaves were damaged in the scooter pannier
so they've been fed to the hens for recycling. If we didn't have the banties
I'd have washed them for us to eat.

Yesterday we fitted a new, low flush, wc. The old (1937) one will be used as
a planter in the garden, bowl and cistern.

Yes, things have been forgotten in the fridges and freezers, they're not
wasted though.

Mary