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Avoiding Food Waste
from Cambs July 2020
by Villager Mag
Environment
Avoiding Food Waste
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We’ve never had it so good with the continuous year-round availability of fresh food. But it is so wasteful throwing food away just because it’s not supermarket fresh. So what can you use past its sell-by date and how? Vegetables: any veg good for roasting – peppers, courgettes, potatoes (including sweet potatoes), onions – don’t have to be crispy-fresh to still be edible. Roasted veg are excellent to go with a barbecue or as a colourful accompaniment to many meals. And do an internet search for roasted vegetable lasagne; better than the meat version. Fruit: lockdown made overripe bananas very popular for home-baking. But most summer fruits combined with apple or orange juice and liquidized make excellent smoothies and puddings and pies are fine with fruit that is past its best. Bread: family favourite bread-and-butter pudding is better with slightly stale bread than fresh. Toast your leftover French stick and then chop into croutons to add to a salad. Crisps and cake: 20-30 seconds in the microwave will remove the moisture that turned your crisps soggy or your cake dry. Leftover dinners: one-pot meals such as chilli, lasagne, curry, casserole often have some left in the pot when all have had their fill. A home vacuum packer means individual portions are kept fresh for a few days longer and don’t get freezer burn if you decide to store for a later time.