Deliver Me Your Bruised And Your Broken
Six Word Photo Story: Freestyle
Food waste? Not in this house!
It’s that time of year again — harvesting fallen apples, currently aided by annoyingly high winds. I do my rounds early every morning. Why do the birds always prefer the big ones?
Some are delivered to neighbours without apple trees, eaters are sliced on top of our breakfasts, the rest are peeled, thick-sliced and blanched in a quarter inch of water to reverse oxidation. Once cooled, they are packed into plastic bags in used butter-tub moulds and frozen as easy to store bricks. Where’s the problem??
Depending which hysterical statistics are read, UK households “waste” £13.8 billion of food a year, which equates to £490 per household.
Who are these people??
Maybe it’s because I’m from the baby boomer generation, born into post-war rationing where waste not, want not was the mantra instilled in us by our parents. They knew true rationing — 1 egg, two ounces of butter, two ounces of tea, one ounce of cheese per person per week — and that was if it was available to purchase.
Doesn’t my household have food waste? Of course it does, mostly in the form of inedible peelings. But if anyone thinks I’m going to dry banana skins and…
