Households across Yorkshire and the
Humber are being invited to take part in a tasty
challenge.
The ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ campaign is
searching for four households from the region to take part in the
food lover challenge - to save money, make the most of their food
and help the environment.
Running from October 4 – November 28, the
households will first be asked to keep a food waste diary for a
week to see how much is going in their bin. Then they will be
treated to a makeover including:
- Love Food Hate Waste Cookery Lessons
with one of the region’s top chefs
- a personalised Food Surgery with tailored
ideas on how to cut down on food waste
- a ‘Food Waste Reducer’ goody pack to help
store food safer for longer
There will be help on hand from the Love Food
Hate Waste Team and local Councils – including Hambleton and
Richmondshire.
Once the transformation is complete each
household will return the diary to see how much they have managed
to cut their food waste. The household with the biggest savings
will receive a luxury organic hamper.
Love Food Hate Waste is the ‘Waste Not Want
Not’ of the modern day - and its big priority is to reduce food in
Yorkshire and Humber. Wasted food costs the average British
family £50 every month (£680 per year for families with children).
8.3 million tonnes of food is thrown away by households in the UK
every year - 5.3 million tonnes of this is food that has just not
been eaten in time, or too much was cooked and the remainder thrown
away. It would fill 4,700 Olympic sized swimming pools!
It is also bad for the environment. If
every household stopped wasting food that could have been eaten,
the CO2 impact would be the same as taking 1 in 4 cars off the
road.
Households of all shapes and sizes are needed
– from one bedroom flats to detached houses with big gardens, from
big families with loads of kids, to shared households, couples or
people living on their own.
Throughout the ‘Food Lover’ challenge,
households will learn an array of simple, easy solutions that will
help them to make the food that they have worked hard to pay for go
much further, save time in the kitchen and take some big steps to
reducing their carbon footprint.
To take part contact North Yorkshire County
Council at wastecampaigns@northyorks.gov.uk or 01609 532512
for an application form. The deadline for applications is Friday
August 27 - successful households will be contacted shortly
after.