An apple a day gets thrown away

 According to Love Food Hate Waste, a staggering 4.4 million whole apples are thrown away untouched every day in the UK.Composting is a great and rewarding way of disposing of those food scraps that will never be on the menu such as egg shells, potato peelings and banana skins but why are we Brits needlessly throwing away our healthy fruit and vegetables?

Making the most of our fruit and vegetables is easy, as Ainsley Harriott says "you don’t have to be a chef to know how to cut down on food waste, you just need to care about your food and your pocket and the rest follows.” 

Here are some simple Love Food Hate Waste tips to get you started:

• storing most fresh fruit and vegetables in the fridge keeps them fresh for much longer - sometimes by as much as a fortnight.
• take fruit and vegetables to crunch on at work or school - it makes a healthy snack
• over-ripe speckled bananas can be frozen, skins removed, for an instant ice cream or used in fruit smoothies or baking
• tired vegetables are great in soup, chutney and curry
  
  

Visit lovefoodhatewaste for more delicious recipes and top tips on how to make the most of the food you buy  - it’ll boost your bank balance at the same time!