Picked up by many newspapers over the weekend was the fact that we tend to throw away a lot of food, most of it fruit and vegetables.
Responsibility for this profligate wastage can be firmly placed with the government,after all it's their "five a day" campaign that has prompted us to go out and buy more fruit and vegetables.
They don't seriously expect us to eat them though, do they?
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loiswakeman
- http://lois.co.uk
- 2008-04-14 @ 12:16:07
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ianrthorpe
- 2008-04-14 @ 17:50:23
All the no marks in Accrington get their daily apple in the form of Lidl's own brand Cider.
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fatsally
- 2008-04-14 @ 19:22:29
Remember Tony's initiative to make fruit available to nusery and infant children throughout Britain?
I have seen the little darlings come up with some really creative ways of not eating their apple or pears. Burying them under the grass clippings or the loose earth in the flower displays. "What are you doing with yor apples children?" we asked as some kids came back a second or third time.
"Making them into buried treasure,"" came the reply.
A nursery nurse was much amused to find one little tyke trying to flush his apple down the loo, but refrained from teaching him about the old art of apple bobbing.
At another school where there was a junior department separated from the infants by railings the year 5&6 boys did a roaring trade collecting the tomatoes from the infants in order to have a tomato fight.
I think the thing to be remembered here is you can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
I don't suppose the supermarkets that sell the bags of eight or nine apples or pears care whether we eat it, nor the farmers who supply the supermarkets, they'll be selling more than they would otherwise, and at least it's bio-degradeable.-
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ianrthorpe
- 2008-04-15 @ 17:37:54
's funny but before Maggie snatched it away, kids never had a problem about drinking their milk.
Just think, if school milk was restored they could put omega 3's, anti-depressants, ritalin and any shite they fancied in it.
What a golden opportunity for social control is being missed. I told you that bloody woman was a brainless short-termist didn't I? -
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rubychoo
- 2008-04-15 @ 05:47:45
Plum-butties = balanced diet.
Our glorious leader never lies...on the strawberries.
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ianrthorpe
- 2008-04-15 @ 17:42:06
Hello rubychoo, welcome to boggart blog. Are you any relation to Jimmy Choo?
My wife loves banana butties but the bananas have to be fresh. She says people who make banana butties for their packed lunch just end up eating a horrible, black, slimy mess.
I like bacon butties meself. Full rasher on each side, a perfevct baslance. -
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fatsally
- 2008-04-15 @ 18:20:20
Crumbs! BBC's bacon butties usually have at least four rashers...mind you we're talking back here; are you using through-cut, back and streaky all in one rasher?
Bit of T.K. and a glass of O.J. on the side makes it the all round balanced diet, fruit and veg, protein, carbo, fibre, sorted.-
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ianrthorpe
- 2008-04-16 @ 18:22:01
I only have two rashers and one round of bread, OJ or Apple and Mango to start. have to watch my weight at my age.
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Well, someone else must be chucking tons away to make up for us, as hardly anything gets thrown away here except peelings into the compost heap, which are often eaten by our friendly neighbourhood badgers.
I was in a supermarket once and they were taking away a whole box of perfectly respectable carrots to be binned - they wouldn't let me have them for the horse as they were "past date". So, I expect a lot of the wastage comes from there too.
Not to mention all the gruesome leftovers from fast food restaurants.
There is some charity that actually feeds people with "sell-by" ready meals etc. Good for them. But I don't suppose if you are homeless and destitute you can afford to worry too much about nutrition - just not being hungry is a more immediate aim.