| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Reply | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 15/01/26 15:26:00 |
| No David With respect you don't have an iota of a clue of what my experience is and I'm not sure that 'mansplaining' is the correct word, I thought that had to happen the other way around when I was being patronised. What I was suggesting was that hospitality businesses were I would have thought often better placed than households to create meals from unused and in date etc (most people don't even understand that) food. Maybe more of them should be applying to defra or the food distribution charities to be accepted on their lists to collect excess food to use. I have in the past seen requests for applications from defra. There is a Waste Hierarchy which should be being followed and sending good food directly to be recycled is not following this. It starts with REDUCE ie we should Reduce Waste. We in our homes (except some flats) should ALL now have Food Waste Bins (FWBs) and these are for plate scrapings, orange peel, orange skins etc which we do not intend eating (although much of this could be composted one way or another). And just in case you think you can't eat banana peel - here's one of several recipes you might like to experiment with as banana peel is eaten in other countries and as I presume you are some sort of foodie (but maybe I'm wrong): https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/nadiya-hussains-banana-peel-curry/ Wasting good food that could have been eaten certainly costs households hundreds of pounds.. You can provide free labour or advice if you choose. I'm not asking you to. I'm sure some people dealing with excess supermarket food will be paid but others will be volunteers. Those working in hospitality will often have good ideas and skills for creating meals out of what they have in stock better than some householders might. I remember Sam's Brasserie running a competition years ago and the winner said that she would not buy some new food unless she had three recipes for it. Sometimes it can be difficult to get the other ingredients for a recipe or you just find you are too tired to contemplate trying something new at the end of a hard day's work. I have now looked at your new menu at the Lyric and I noticed that you do have a couple of non-sweet items on it - something I never saw on your old menu in Chiswick. (I much prefer savoury to sweet and I don't really like coffee - although I try and rink one a day.) There I toyed with the idea on occasion of pancakes... I was also suggesting that people in general (and that includes me) were perhaps not as good at volunteering as we might be. Every so often people do talk about their experiences for instance of volunteering and serving Christmas dinner for Crisis at Christmas and I noticed from the local press that Hugh Grant was serving Christmas dinners in Hammersmith this year. |