As the school is closed, some food was lest and available for me. Lots of milk both from the kitchen and the nursery.Lots of potatoes that will last for the all winter. I have to think something potatoooo...fry ,mash,roast,potato cakes,potato gnocchi,potato fritters and more.
Milk on the other hand I need to freeze it as I am not using much cheese at all. I might attempt to start making yogurt as it is not a difficult thing.I do not eat yogurt but Christopher and Lesley like it.
Our shopping is done long ago ( not myself ) and we so much food available I will be having no problems for the rest of the experiment.
Josie gave me a wonderful present. I full box of vegetables with many types of them. Picture below. As the food for me is in abundance, I will be using lots of it for the all family, as my entire experiment is done for protesting against the food waste in our countries. So, no food will be wasted in our house.
Christmas time is obviously the time were we buy more, we eat more and we waste more. Figures shown that we waste an extra 20% of food than normal. All because we start buying food and other things for Christmas from November and before. this is what makes me crazy about the all business around Christmas. Is not actually Christmas but just a big feast where we are mad spending hundreds of pounds in food, drinks and other stuff which in a high percentage goes back to charity shops or dumped.
Why retailers start to sell Christmas thing before haloween? And why we start shopping two months early?
I do think that for many people Christmas has no any christian value or connection. it is just a holiday were for some mysterious reason we have to indulge so much. yes it is still a big moment for a family reunion, having friend around but there is no religion connection for most of us. If you go to Spain or Italy it is more or less the same in big cities, but in small towns and villages the atmosphere is completely different.
every thing is in a small scale, less pompous showing off etc. But nowadays, talking about food waste there is no difference. In Italy and Spain the waste matches more or less the waste of any other west countries.
In small villages this is not the case as people buy less because have less, and waste little. Another reason for buying lots of stuff is the tendency to borrow money. Now this is typical of this country. The pro capite debt here is far more superior than in Italy for example, were people still prefer not to buy if they have no money.
The debt of this country is astronomical and our kids are going to pay the consequences in the future. This is what we are leaving to them, a dark uncertain future. Plus the national debt sums up for about £15.000 per person in the UK.
We should talk about it and not try to hide the problem. This borrowing philosophy is one of the major problems of waste. Because we buy thing that are not absolutely essential, and lots of modern gadgets are design to last little, or are not in fashion the very next year.
The status of well being should now be determined not by how much money we can spend, but on how well is pent and not wasted.
Anyway, this Christmas we should try to finish off all the food. What is left over should be re used in other dishes. Use one of your cookery book you bought or you have received as a present and be inventive. If we do not waste food. we will be buying less the following week and therefore we will be doing a favour to the land, the water, the animals that provide it to us and more important we will be leaving more food for the people who are starving. This is true as the implication of the food production have lots to do with the starving population around the planet.
The vegetable box from Josie and Fraser
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