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Did you join our week to Love Food and Hate Waste?

29 November

To celebrate this year’s European Week for Waste Reduction (20 – 27 November), our team ran a series of events to encourage residents to make the best of their food, so less ends up in the bin.

Professional chefs in Barking Town Square, Ilford High Road and Westfield Stratford City ran live cooking demonstrations to show residents how cheap and easy it is to cook with those odds and ends lurking in your fridge and store cupboard.

Hundreds of residents learned how to make whole meals - vegetable curry, carrot and chilli soup, a tortilla-based pizza, canapés and flatbread – out of leftovers you can find in your kitchen and costing mere pennies to make.
You can visit the Love Food Hate Waste website to find similar recipes.

We also spoke to many residents at our Love Food Hate Waste roadshows, giving out advice, information cards and freebies such as spaghetti measurers and bag clips to help them make the best of their food.

The Love Food Hate Waste campaign estimates that households in the United Kingdom throw away 7.2 million tonnes of food every year, costing the average family with children £680 a year, over £50 a month.

If you didn’t get a chance to join us last week, there is still plenty you can do to throw less food away and save money. Visit the Love Food Hate Waste website for a wealth of information, ideas and more recipes.