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IT PAYS TO BE A FOOD LOVER
Households across Yorkshire and the Humber are being invited to become food lovers in an effort to save money, make the most of their food and help the environment – in one very tasty challenge. ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ is searching for four households from Yorkshire and the Humber to take part in the ‘Food Lover’ challenge’ from 4 October to 28 November. It all begins with the household keeping a food-waste diary for a week to see how much is going in their bin. They’ll then be treated to a ‘Food Lover’ makeover including; Love Food Hate Waste cookery lessons with one of the region’s top chefs A personalised food surgery with tailored ideas on how to cut down on food waste A ‘Food Waste
Reducer’ goody pack to help you store your food safer for longer There will be help on hand to successful applicants from the Love Food Hate Waste team and local councils, who are supporting the campaign across the region. Once the transformation is complete each household will return the diary to see how much they have now managed to cut their food waste. The household with the biggest savings will receive a luxury organic hamper. Love Food Hate Waste is the ‘Waste Not Want Not’ of the modern day and it’s a big priority to reduce food in Yorkshire and Humber. Wasted food costs the average British family £50 every month (£680 per year for families with children), and we’re not talking bread crusts and potato peelings. An
astonishing 8.3 million tonnes of food is thrown away by households in the UK every year; 5.3 million tonnes of this is perfectly good food that has just not been eaten in time, or too much was cooked and the remainder thrown away. That’s like filling 4,700 Olympic sized swimming pools! It is also bad for the environment. If every household stopped wasting food that could have been eaten, the CO2 impact would be the same as taking 1 in 4 cars off the road. But while the effects of this wasted food are shocking, Love Food Hate Waste shows you easy ways to help you eat well, save money and make your food go further by planning meals, checking stocks and building confidence in the kitchen. So households of all shapes and sizes and from across Yorkshire and Humber are needed
– from one bedroom flats to detached houses with big gardens, from big families with loads of kids, to shared households, couples or people living on their own. Throughout the ‘Food Lover’ challenge, households will learn an array of simple, easy solutions that will help them to make the food that they have worked hard to pay for go much further, save time in the kitchen and take some big steps to reducing their carbon footprint. So you see, it really does pay to be a food lover! Interested? Contact Sheffield Council’s waste management team on 0114 203 7622 for an application form. The deadline for applications is Friday 27 August. Successful households will be contacted shortly afterwards.
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