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Love Food Hate Waste

Launched on 1st November 2007, by the Scottish Waste Aware Group(SWAG), the Love Food Hate Waste campaign is designed to help householders avoid wasting the food that they buy. How often are we as shoppers tempted by the "buy one get one free offers" or "three for two" offers in our ocal suopermarkets only for these "offers" to end up in the bin?

Each year Scotland throws away 650,000 tonnes of food waste (around £800m worth of food or an average of £366 per Scottish household) with over a 1/3 of the food Scottish households buy ending up in the bin - at least 1/2 of this wasted food could have been eaten.

(source: www.wasteawarelovefood.org.uk)

This dedicated website supports the campaign by sharing information and providing top tips on

• how to store food
• portion sizes
• recipe ideas for leftovers
• how to be better prepared and plan ahead

As well as providing these top tips, the website introduces Scotland's 4 food waset champions: ordinary folk just like you, who motivated by the amount of food waste they and their families produce are actively doing something about it. Visit their online blogs and follow their progress. Or why not join the forum and share your own top tips and recipe ideas with others. Top Scottish chefs such as Tony Singh, Lady Claire MacDonald and Nick Nairn are also posting their ideas recipes, so next time you have boiled too much rice, or have leftovers from a Sunday roast, and are looking for some inspiration, remember to Love Food Hate Waste.

Visit the Waste Aware Scotland website www.wasteawarescotland.org.uk for further helpful advice on how and why to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle your household waste.