"'Mike'" wrote in
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"Alan" wrote in message
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In message , Baz
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Unfortunatly it's not that simple, at least not this year as
milk(even uht),

I purchased a "box"[1] of UHT fully skimmed milk cartons in mid
November knowing that once the media report only 3 more shopping
weeks to Christmas much the general population go potty and buy 3 or
4 times more than they need or can use.

A box at a time is my usual purchase of UHT milk throughout the rest
of the year.
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Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk


Something else I cannot get my head round is a statement on the lines
of 'Nearly 45% (or some such huge figure) of all the food we buy is
thrown away as waste'!!!
Not in this house! We cook what we know we are going to eat. Peelings
etc go in the compost heap. 'Left overs' ...... a rarity in this
house, is put into Bubble and Squeak, the soup pot, the hot pot etc.,
or such as an Apple Crumble, eaten the next day warmed up in the Micro
Wave etc etc etc.

I was brought up during the war and then my parents bought an hotel,
so I was brought up to be 'frugal' if that is the right word ;-) My
daughter and son in law have just sold their very big hotel. They
didn't make their money by wasting food.

Pru Leath used to 'help out and advise' when a restaurant was in
difficulty. The first place in the establishment she visited was the
dustbins. To see how much was being thrown away.

How much food do you throw away?

Mike


We here throw away too much I admit, but not peelings etc. they always
are composted.
When it's just the two of us, my OH and me, it's easy, but when the kids
and grandkids are with us things go belly up, but I love having them with
us.
We just don't know how much food to prepare for them. on a good day they
can eat us out of house and home but on a bad day its the opposite.
Waste is a thing that is becomming an issue for me personally and am
trying to address it.
We had our black bin (general purpose) emptied for the first time in 6
weeks on Thursday and you should have seen how many black bags each
household put out extra (the council said we could) and that made me
think what the hell is everyone chucking out?
Plastics & cardboard go into a different bin, as does garden waste into
another, glass and tins into a box, paper into another box. So what is
left to put into the general purpose bin for landfill? Food?

We, well most of us,throw too much food away ,don't we. Like throwing
money away.

Baz