| Topic: | Re:Shocking food waste - Chiswick M&S | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 21/01/26 08:10:00 |
| Well it's good to hear that someone is getting some of the short dated but IN DATE & EDIBLE food from M&S. However it would obviously be better if there was a lot more being distributed to food banks and other local concerns to be USED AS FOOD instead of being sent to be turned into fuel and compost which is lower down the Waste Hierarchy. Baked potatoes always used to be one of the staples of a hospital supper menu. Are they still? There are cheaper ways to cook them than in a traditional oven at home now that energy is so expensive. They are also a good way to use up other unused food as fillings. Blackboard menus as Janice mentioned do often show dishes of the day and eg for baked potatoes the fillings have been run out of. You can put all sorts of things into a chilli con or sin carne or a pasta sauce or potato topped cottage pie. It would help if more of our children knew how to cook and I remember APPLE in Acton working at doing this but schools are now mostly doing more after too many years of not doing this. There are also businesses with courses children can do and it would be good if more went off to university and college and left home with better cookery skills. I see from The Grocer that M&S is not the only store that could do a lot better in this area... https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/food-waste/1605.subject |