Tonight: From Bin To Banquet

debtmuncher

interesting programme i thought. i would also love to see a programme featuring top restaurants and how they keep their food wastes down. their food has to be done to perfection and anything less gets binned. name and shame! no point picking on supermarkets if others in the food business are putting out huge amount of wastage as well.

debtmuncher

zippychick wrote: »

My neighbours little boy came in to play connect 4 (which all he does is keep making up new rules so he wins), so i missed it beyond where AWT came in.

He didn't seem too hateful in this episode, considering I really can't stand the man.

he was nice enough in the programme, found it shocking himself how wasteful the supermarkets were.

debtmuncher

winniepooh wrote: »

Couldn't agree more

trouble is people are too quick to shout "gonna sue you" these days so is it any wonder they would keep the dating system in case people turn round and say they got food poisoning from eating something one hour out of date.

seems we have made a rod for our own backs now. until people stop screaming for compensation for minor things i dont see the food industry changing their views on it.


ah this was meant to have been a double quote not just yours winnie!

geordie_joe

Flat_Eric wrote: »

They do have a lot of explaining to do in my opinion however because clearly they are the route of the problem.

And they will say that they are only doing what the customer want's, and sometimes I think they could be right.

Flat_Eric wrote: »

Why cant they do away with buy 2, get 1 free or 2 for £?? and instead reduce the price to begin with??

Because they sell more with 2 for 1 offers. They do sometimes have half price offers, but always go back to BOGOFs because the vast majority of their customers are greedy. They prefer to get twice as much for the amount they were going to spend, rather than getting what they went in for for half they price they expected.

Pure greed if you ask me.

Flat_Eric wrote: »

I dont want 2 loafs of tiger bread (getting the two loaves for 75 pence each), I want one so have to pay full price of £1. Why cant they sell at 75p instead?

I agree, being single I would prefer something half price to getting another free, but I guess we are in the minority.

Flat_Eric wrote: »

Also I have heard it mentioned that they are deliberately generous with sell by dates, i.e. short date stuff when it will probably be fine for weeks after because bad planning means it doesnt get used and we throw it away and thus means we have go to the supermarket more often to replenish stocks.

Yes, they will say it's to protect them selves from being sued if someone eats "off" food, but I suspect it's just so we eat it or throw it out sooner and come back to buy more.

Flat_Eric wrote: »

I am reading Waste by Tristian Stuart (well looking at the pictures!!) and this talks of one supermarket whose strict policies for the quality of the food they sell dictate that 4 slices from each loaf (being the crust and first slice) are discarded which means 13,000 slices of bread are binned everyday.

Never heard of a supermarket doing that, and I'd be a p*ssed off if I bought a loaf and four slices were missing!

Scarlett25

There was an item on Channel 5 news tonight about food waste. One chef advised asking for a doggie bag in restaurants like they do in America! It seems a good idea but some people said they'd be too embarrassed to ask!

debtmuncher

Scarlett25 wrote: »

There was an item on Channel 5 news tonight about food waste. One chef advised asking for a doggie bag in restaurants like they do in America! It seems a good idea but some people said they'd be too embarrassed to ask!

would that be hugh something, keep forgetting his surname!! he mentioned it last week and i am sure i read it somewhere but cant think where lol

Scarlett25

No it wasn't Hugh FW - if I remember right, it was Giorgio Locatelli!

brighthair

Scarlett25 wrote: »

There was an item on Channel 5 news tonight about food waste. One chef advised asking for a doggie bag in restaurants like they do in America! It seems a good idea but some people said they'd be too embarrassed to ask!

I went to Rice for a meal a few weeks ago, had a gorgeous Prawn Tom Yam soup. It was £9 and I couldn't finish it. Old me would have left it, I asked if I could have it, and he put it in one of those cardboard foldy containers. Next day I took the prawns out, reheated them in some garlic butter, and put the rest of the soup in the microwave. It was lovely

Butterfly_Brain

debtmuncher wrote: »

would that be hugh something, keep forgetting his surname!! he mentioned it last week and i am sure i read it somewhere but cant think where lol

That's only if you can get past the H&S gestapo because if a restaurant hasn't got a take away licence they have to ask you to sign a disclaimer to say that you take it at your own risk and that you can't go back and sue them if you get a dodgy tummy etc.