Reduce your food waste!
Reducing your food waste is one of the single biggest things you can do to help both reduce your waste, which is great for the environment, but also reduce the pressure on your household budget.
Visit north London's dedicated Love Food Hate Waste website
Love Food Hate Waste is a national campaign aimed at raising awareness of the need to reduce food waste. The campaign shows that by doing some easy practical everyday things in the home we can all waste less food, which will ultimately benefit our purses and the environment .
Free-lunching
Is there really such a thing as a free lunch?
Yes there is! Most of us have enough things waiting in the fridge to make today's lunch, if we only thought to look...
Okay, so it’s not entirely free as you did pay for it. But with free-lunching you actually use the food you’ve already bought and got at home, rather than letting it go to waste and buying lunch from the shop each day. So it’s kind of free, freer than £3.33, which is the average amount workers spend each day on buying shop bought lunches.
Whether your purse feels the pinch or not, this is a fantastic way to save some money in time for Christmas. What makes free-lunching different to a packed lunch is that you make your lunch out of perfectly good food you might have otherwise thrown away, and there are two quick and easy ways to do it:
1. Last night’s leftovers
Why not use leftovers from last night? Each year we throw away £1 billion of home cooked meals, but why, when leftovers are perfect for free-lunching?
2. Grab and Go
Even when you’re in a tearing hurry, you can still free-lunch. Fruit is great to ‘grab and go’ as it needs no preparation. Apples can easily be added to your briefcase or lunch box. Take a few crackers from the cupboard and that half-full tub of hummus or the last bit of cheese for another quick and easy option. Carrots can be chopped into sticks to give a bit of crunch to your lunch!
Find out more handy hints and tips at north London's dedicated Love food hate waste website.