Let it rot! - reducing your waste

  Try to follow these simple tips to reduce your food waste! The first step to being more conscious about your food waste starts with your grocery shopping. By following several tips you will reduce it in a really short period of time.  What can you do today to prevent and reduce food waste? Purchase only what is needed. Plan your shopping list and meals.  Get only what you will use in your meals to prevent wasting food. Enjoy cooking with your family!  Avoid buying promotions like buy-one-get-one-free offers .  Most of the time, you overbuy ingredients that may get spoiled quickly, such as vegetables. Keep in mind, it is not a great deal if it will be wasted! Eat what you buy. Don’t prepare too much.  Reduce what you cook if you are not planning to eat it later.  Eat your leftovers.  They are better in your stomach than in the bin.  Save food that may be thrown.  You can get...

  Have you ever wondered what you can do with your food scraps?   There are simple tips to follow to reuse our vegetables' peels and odds-and-ends from cooking.   Freeze it. The freezer can be your friend when you try to reduce your food waste. You could freeze your food scraps to be able to collect a huge amount to be composted or share it with others. There are several apps where you can give away your food waste for other people to do compost. For instance,  ShareWaste - Give your waste a second chance!   Make a delicious vegetable broth. Many of our mums usually save the bones from the Sunday roast to make a broth to be used for other meals. This is a brilliant idea to do the same with our vegetables' peels and ends. You will end up having a tasty, full of nutrients broth, which can be frozen to use when you need it.   Reuse your vegetables' ends.  There are some types of vegetables that can regrow by only using the ends of it...

  As in the previews post I have mentioned, you can share your food scraps with other people or, even, tiny organisms such as worms. You could give away your organic waste collected to people in your neighbourhood who have a garden to easily compost it using the ShareWaste website.  ShareWaste - Give your waste a second chance! I clearly understand that living in a small flat in a huge city like London, sometimes you do not have access to the right place to start composting yourself.   How can we feed the worms so they eat our organic scraps?   The first thing you need to keep in mind is that you can develop a small worm farm for them to eat your kitchen scraps to reuse them giving them a second chance.   Watch this video for more information about what is a worm farm and how to develop one.  Worm Farms: a Beginners Guide | Milkwood - YouTube   Here, there are several tips to follow to make them feel comfortable in their ecosys...

  Composting is a great way to give a second chance to your food scraps instead of sending them to the landfill together with the rest of your waste. You will generate nutritious soil that will make stronger your garden and plants. However, it can be an overwhelmed activity if you do not have the right information and equipment to do it.   But  do not be scared!  It can be simpler than you think.   How to compost? There is so much information on the Internet and in books that you can easily teach yourself certain tips to start developing your bin to create compost. To make it easier I will provide you with a minute resume of the key points for you to start digging into this topic.   Let’s start!   What will you need?   Brown material to produce carbon. Such as dead leaves, branches, coffee filters, cotton and wool rugs, nutshells, paper, cardboard, and newspaper, among others. + Green material to produce nitrogen. Gra...

  Once the compost is created, you can store it in sacs or a big container where it stays dry to be used whenever you need it. As I have mentioned in the previous post, it is a great source full of nutrients to feed your garden. There are several ways of using it. However, the main one is to mix it with your regular garden soil to give this extra good to your plants.   What else can it be used for?   Use it as soil to plant new seeds. Compost can be used as a regular soil where you can plant flowers or vegetable seeds. The plant would grow stronger and healthier because it has this extra bonus of nutrients coming from the decomposition of your organic scraps.   Soil conditioner. Compost improves the condition of the soil. It improves the fluffiness and texture of your earth, which makes your plants more productive and more resistant to disease. It is like medicine for your garden ground.     Added on top of your existence flowers and veg...

As individuals, we can make a change in our daily habits to help reduce our food waste.  You do not need to put so much effort into it, you could just freeze your organic scraps and share them with your neighbor, who may know how to compost to feed the garden. The key to all this process is to be more conscious and give a second chance to a kind of waste that we cannot avoid creating because every inhabitant cooks and eats. Now, you do not have any excuse to start putting this information into action to make a positive impact on your surroundings. So, next time you have veggies’ peels and ends after cooking, think twice before throwing them in the bin to give them a new life.  Here there is a video for you to have more ideas and tips to reuse your scraps.   100 WAYS TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE YOU HAVE TO TRY - YouTube   Repeating all the processes is essential to making a difference.