At first I thought you also meant food waste that had passed through the body! That was the only way I could think of the waste of 2kg of food!
I rarely waste anything edible and all peelings etc go in the compost heap. I don't think there is a vegetable that I don't like, except for hot chillies. If I roast a chicken for the two of us it does several meals, ending up with chicken noodle soup.
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The replies are pretty much how I feel as well, the chicken bones after you have eaten all the meat and then used them to make soup shouldn't be counted as waste, neither should apple pulp from making jelly/cider/vinegar, or cabbage stalks that end up in the compost. But all of these are counted, whereas wonky veg that are ploughed back into the field are not counted.
Zero food waste here. Like you anything green is composted, but also any meat waste (bones, fat trimmings, gristle etc) goes on the wall where it disappears.
I felt terribly guilty when we discovered a vacuum pack of lentil dhal in the back of the cupboard that was 2 years out of date. I know @Hostafan1 would have eaten it, but we didn't risk it. All our food prep waste goes in the compost bin. We only put woody stuff and weeds in the green bin. But scrapings from the plates if we can't quite finish a meal go into the general waste. Loooove kale! And all green leaved veggies. Although husband mistakenly cooked some leaves from the sprouting broccoli we have growing (should be able to harvest in the spring) and that wasn't nice. Brussel tops on the other hand are delicious - we don't grow brussels so very rarely come across them. Or spring greens - they used to be common but don't see them now.
We waste very little food. Most of our "food waste" is cat food that the grumpy old man-cat turns up his nose at. It's strange, he'll eat something one week and then next time he won't touch it but will eat something that he's previously ignored. It's an ongoing guessing game.
There's the occasional slice of mouldy bread or the last bit in the bottom of a bottle of milk that turns overnight or the outside of the cheese that's grown mould and needs to be cut off or the bottom of a jar of something that's got forgotten about, but I don't count fruit and veg peelings, used tea bags, eggshells etc as waste, and in any case they go in the compost not the waste bin. If I cook more than we're going to eat it's deliberate (extra portions to go in the freezer).
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Having worked in a popular high end supermarket over Christmas one year I was surprised to see the volume of packaged food that was all going to be out of date by the time the shop was due to open again after the holiday. There was a massive reduction for staff getting their share of the leftovers and a lot was to be sent to be used by charities but it makes me think a large portion of the 2kg average food waste per person per day must be down to shops having to dump products gone past their use by or best before date. I saw something on TV a while back where there was an industrial unit processing a huge volume of food waste into anaerobic digestion tanks to make methane fuel.
Worked in a fine dining kitchen as well a few years back and it was good to see that they had a very anti food waste system with even the tough parts of broccoli stalks being kept to go into stock and leftovers from plates going into a pig bucket where I was told they were collected by a farmer for feeding to their pigs.
When I was little they used to collect pig food buckets from everyone’s house. Think it was stopped because of health and safety issues. No food wasted here, I cook what I know we’ll eat and peelings go in the compost bin. For several years we’ve have had a grey council bin for food waste where it’s collected weekly and sent to the depot in Cornwall for turning into fuel. .
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Sorry Bee witched, I've only just caught your reply. In the post-war rationing era one never heard of the things I mentioned, so I was merely trying to illustrate that they were essentially a modern 'luxury' we never had.
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I rarely waste anything edible and all peelings etc go in the compost heap. I don't think there is a vegetable that I don't like, except for hot chillies. If I roast a chicken for the two of us it does several meals, ending up with chicken noodle soup.
All our food prep waste goes in the compost bin. We only put woody stuff and weeds in the green bin. But scrapings from the plates if we can't quite finish a meal go into the general waste.
Loooove kale! And all green leaved veggies. Although husband mistakenly cooked some leaves from the sprouting broccoli we have growing (should be able to harvest in the spring) and that wasn't nice. Brussel tops on the other hand are delicious - we don't grow brussels so very rarely come across them. Or spring greens - they used to be common but don't see them now.
No food wasted here, I cook what I know we’ll eat and peelings go in the compost bin.
For several years we’ve have had a grey council bin for food waste where it’s collected weekly and sent to the depot in Cornwall for turning into fuel. .