These 8 clever and practical steps will help you reduce your food wastage as you stay at home

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Privacy NoticeIt doesn’t do any good storing up loads of food in your fridges and pantries if you don’t know what to do with it, especially if it ends up as food waste. Instead of stockpiling how about taking stock of what you already have and following some simple tips to breathe back like into your vegetables or that jar of paste lingering in the back of your cupboard. Love Food Hate Waste have some genius tips when it comes to using every scrap of your food right down to the skins of your veg, how using the crust of a loaf makes the perfect mini pizza base, and if all else fails “fling it together” in one big pot.

Keep your bread in the freezer and if you end up with crusts make pizza!
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Love Food Hate Waste reveals: “One third of the food produced globally goes to waste. This is a problem of epic proportions that impacts us financially, socially and environmentally. In the UK, 10 million tonnes of food are wasted every year, with around 70 per cent of that coming from our homes.” That’s also because many of us end up throwing away perfectly edible leaves, skins and stalks when we’re preparing food.
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Here are some steps you can take to help ‘compleat’ your food, as well as other helpful solutions that will make the most out of everything in your cupboards, fridges and freezers!

Don’t forget the potato skins when it comes to making mash, blend them to get it smooth
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Use your loaf The end slices of a loaf of bread make perfect mini pizza bases. Make a super quick and cheap snack by piling toppings onto these thicker end slices. And if the slices have gone a bit stale don’t throw them out, blitz them up in a blender to create breadcrumbs, or bake some croutons for your homemade veg soup. Potato skin mash Make smooth mash with skins. Cut whole, clean potatoes into small cubes and boil for 15 minutes – mash them up with some butter and milk, and you will never notice the skins but will get all the nutritional benefits.

Don’t let any fruit go to waste by making smoothies
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Make smoothie bags Many of use will probably possess some form of food processor in our households. Check the fruit you bought when you did the big shop and if you have things like strawberries that you know will go off more quickly than you can eat it, pop portions into a freezer bag so that you can blend them with some nut butter for a morning smoothie. Bananas The cupboard is the best place to store your bananas and keep them away from other fruits. If you see that they’re starting to ripen you can most definitely pop them in the freezer. Or if you’ve missed the chance then let them go brown and make banana bread.
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Keep a log Organising your food while at home and keeping a log is a really good way to keep track of what you have. From here you can build an ingredients list to make recipes, and keep check of what you really need without having to buy extras you don’t. Now you have spare time being at home, organising your cupboards, pantries and fridges with best before dates that expire sooner at the front so you know what needs eating first. Portion/meal planning This goes hand-in-hand with keeping a log of the food you have, after you cook it make sure you dish up the correct amount of food and are not serving you and your family oversized portions. Love Food Hate Waste have a portion calculator that takes away the guesswork for your everyday food shop. It will help you to only buy what you need during your regular shopping trip to the store or online by selecting how many meals you plan to use each food for and helping you save money. Then you will prepare the right amount, every mealtime – minimising waste at the same time as keeping an eye on you and your family’s health.

Get friendly with your freezer
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