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Date released: Jan 24 2012
The EPA’s Stop Food Waste Programme is encouraging everyone to start the New Year afresh by rethinking our food storage habits, sorting the freezer, and avoid throwing out up to €700 worth of food every year.
To help kick start this process, Odile Le Bolloch, spokesperson for Stop Food Waste at the EPA, suggests tackling the contents of your freezer.
“Freezers are a great friend to every kitchen but they can become a disorganised food black hole in no time. Food goes in there with best of intentions of future consumption but ends up coming out to go straight into the bin because we can’t remember how many weeks, months, even years it’s been in there! So this week why not go to your freezer –and make a list. Put the list on the side of your freezer and plan a series of meals around what is in it - this is food that will cost you nothing but if forgotten may become a waste.”
Once order has been restored, here are Stop Food Waste’s series of tips for great freezer management:
So before going shopping, to buy more food, have a closer look at your freezer, and see if you can save yourself money and reduce food waste. Check out the StopFoodWaste website for more information, tips and recipes.
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About The STOP Food Waste Programme
The STOP Food Waste programme is funded under the EPA National Waste Prevention Programme (NWPP). Waste Prevention is the preferred waste management option in Ireland. By not generating waste, we can eliminate the need to handle, transport, treat and dispose of waste. We can also avoid having to pay for these services. In light of the significant issues arising from the disposal of food waste, and the realisation of the costs associated with this, the NWPP Prevention Plan 2009-2012 set out to promote food waste prevention and home composting. www.stopfoodwaste.ie
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