Zero food waste

StarShapedPeg

We have literally no food waste.
I cook mostly from scratch and freeze anything that’s near or expires soon. Anything left over is for lunch or tea the following day. I make soup or vegetable lasagna to use gluts of vegetables.
When I do peel carrots or potatoes, those peelings, egg shells, apple cores, banana skins or citrus peelings go in the compost heap, along with tea bags. We have chickens so they get kitchen scraps, usually avail us of bread crusts, cake crumbs and we have a bird table that gets anything that the chickens don’t like or want.
The only thing I have thrown away in the last month is an avacado stone and it’s rind.
Have you tried meal planning and only going shopping with a list? It might help a little.

PasturesNew

I have zero waste. Over a year it's probably 1-2 slices of bread and about the same quantity of "other stuff".

I only buy what I know I will eat.
I actively eat everything I have.
I eat odd/peculiar combinations and meals to use things up.
I don't "choose" what I'm eating, I work out what I have to eat.

You're simply buying too much, then not actively monitoring what's open/needs using ....

I bought sprouts the other week, the final portion was languishing still after 3 weeks, they looked sad.... then they started to go black. I just cut the black bits out and ate them because that's what you have to do - and I know it was all my own fault as I should've eaten them sooner.

pile-o-stone

We have a Joraform insulated, rotating compost bin that sits conveniently just outside the back door. All of our food waste goes it it, including cooked food. We're all vegan, but meat can also go into the bin for those who eat dead sentient life forms. We just throw in a handful of sawdust pellets to soak up the liquid when we put food int it, then rotate the bin to mix it up. The bin gets really hot, even in winter, and it breaks down the food quickly into compost. It doesn't attract rats or other vermin because it's raised off the ground.

We have zero food waste, and our fortnightly emptied dustbins, are no longer stinking by the time they are emptied.

ani*fan

I have to agree that seperating things like peels, coffee grinds and egg shells from the rest of your rubbish makes dealing with the rubbish much less stinky and horrible. We have doorstep collection of compostable stuff but waste hardly any food at all. I think I'll do a check and make sure we're keeping food waste to as close to zero as we can.

I would like some advice about reducing other rubbish. Maybe I'll start a thread.