The British government is encouraging Britons to reduce waste in the food supply. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said “if we are to get food prices down, we must also do more to deal with unnecessary demand”. In their posting on 7 July, 2008, Laura Barton and Jon Henley, feature writers for the Guardian, describe a number of ways to reduce waste and unnecessary demand. Among their suggestions is the use of the E.G.G. to reduce waste of produce. No posting has ever driven more traffic to our website. Thanks for helping the world save produce Laura and Jon!
You may read the entire posting at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/08/food.ethicalliving
Their produce saving advice is:
5. Be storage savvy
There are tonnes of household tips for storing foods to increase their longevity (many of them appear on the lovefoodhatewaste.com site) including topping and tailing carrots as soon as you buy them to prolong their life, keeping apples in the fridge so they last days longer than in the fruit bowl, and ensuring your olive oil is kept somewhere cool and dry to prevent the breakdown of the fatty acids. Also, invest in an EGG – “ethylene gas guardian” (4theegg.com): many fruits and vegetables give off ethylene gas as they ripen and the refrigerator traps this gas, which results in the early rotting of your produce. The EGG keeps the ethylene levels in your fridge low, meaning your vegetables last longer.
Tags: food demand, food prices, Guardian, perishables storage, storage savvy, waste not
August 7, 2008 at 5:53 am
With the current uncertainties with food prices there is a greater need for us to conserve and be increasingly economical about food consumption at home. We have become wasteful as consumers of food and have never really had a need to feel otherwise before this crisis started. Blaming the rampant consumerism of the supermarkets has now irrelevant in this discussion. The situation now is that if we don’t change our food habits this situation could easily escalate completely out of control. The responsibility is now on us all to change our food buying and food consuming habits.
Simple food saving tips are things we need to get used to and practice more regularly. Most of these are common sense and can be quite creative. You can find a list of free food saving tips at sites such as http://www.foodcrisis.co.uk amongst other similar sites as well.
We all need to contribute to a fairer and more food wise program for ourselves.