15p out of every £ spent on food is thrown away....what a waste

steerpike

Having a non-fussy family helps keeping waste down - we have brought our dd's up to eat what was on their plate or go without. Restricting in-between-meals snacks helped them have an appetite at mealtimes too. Anything that wasn't very popular, like sprouts, were given in small quantities.

I boil, roast and casserole potatoes in their skins - delicious and no wasted peelings.

I buy most meat, fruit and veg from the local market - fresh and locally produced ....and the market traders are happy to sell you what quantity you want - whether its one pork chop, three apples or three slices of bacon so you don't have to buy (and waste) more than you need....;)

geordie_joe

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Well, clearly some people do care - they've posted on this thread that they care, and I'm suggesting what they can do about it

They may care about it when they are at home reading this forum, but when they are in super markets being customers they don't care or give it a thought. Nobody picks an item off a supermarket shelf then worries about what will happen to the rest of the items on the shelf!

As for doing something about it, complete waste of time. As I said earlier, if the supermarket hasn't got what you want you are an unhappy customer, if they do have it then you are happy.

All supermarkets know they don't keep customers by making them unhappy.

Given a choice between ordering too little and making customers unhappy, and ordering too much, but keeping all their customers happy, they will always go for ordering too much.

Penelope_Penguin

geordie_joe wrote: »

As for doing something about it, complete waste of time.

Wrong again :rolleyes: It's an absolute scandal that supermarkets throw away perfectly edible food :mad: Customer pressure could allow that to go to deserving causes, or be given away to consumers. The fact that it is disposed of is nigh on criminal.

geordie_joe

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Wrong again :rolleyes: It's an absolute scandal that supermarkets throw away perfectly edible food :mad: Customer pressure could allow that to go to deserving causes, or be given away to consumers. The fact that it is disposed of is nigh on criminal.

I wasn't wrong the first time, and I'm not wrong now :rolleyes:

The first time I said CUSTOMERS meaning people who are in supermarkets buy things. In an effort to prove me wrong you changed it to PEOPLE who are sitting reading this forum.

Super markets are only concerned with CUSTOMERS, and as I said, nobody worries about the items left on the shelf at the point when they take one item off the shelf. They may care when they hear about it on the news or in a forum, but not when they are shopping.

While I agree that throwing out edible food is a scandal, and nigh on criminal, I can see it from the supermarket's side.

Most won't give it to deserving causes because they try to sell it right up to the point when they think it is not fit to eat, or it's past it's best by/use by date. If they give it away they run the risk of being sued.

As for consumer pressure, remember all the fuss about chickens? The great HFW proudly boasted that the campaign had double the number of free range chickens bought, but then admitted that before the campaign FR chickens accounted for 5% of chickens sold and after the campaign it had went up to 10%.

Then it fell back again!

All those people sitting at home demanding supermarkets stopped selling battery chickens and only sell Free Range, 90% of them went into the supermarkets and became customers again and bought the battery chickens, and still do.

Supermarkets don't really listen to what people sitting at home say, they have big computers that analyse what the customers in their shops do, and that's what drives them.

charliee_3

i almost certainly dont throw away 15p in every £1 of food, but i probably overeat at least 15p for every pound of food to stop it going to waste.. which IMO is just as bad.. throwing it away would be healthier... :-(

Penelope_Penguin

geordie_joe wrote: »

I wasn't wrong the first time, and I'm not wrong now :rolleyes:

Nope, you're wrong for a 3rd time :rolleyes: As you're now suggesting that I'm twisting your words I'll allow you to have the last word; I have a life to live

geordie_joe

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Nope, you're wrong for a 3rd time :rolleyes:

I disagree, simply saying someone is wrong does not make them wrong.

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

As you're now suggesting that I'm twisting your words

I'm not suggesting anything, I stated categorically that you had twisted one word of what I said to make my post mean something else.

I said "CUSTOMERS" (of supermarkets) and you replied with "PEOPLE" (who had posted in this forum). In my mine they are two different things.

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I'll allow you to have the last word; I have a life to live

If I had not replied to this then you would have had the last word.

chinagirl

Now, now children !!!

steerpike

now then you two - agree to differ!

geordie_joe

chinagirl wrote: »

Now, now children !!!

Sorry, I'll behave from now on