How much food do you waste,if none how do you manage that?

Virtually none.

I plan our lunches and dinner really thoughtfully and but exactly what we need.

We eat a lot so nothing goes to waste 🤣, if a particular item is going to waste soon I try and think how can incorporate it to the already planned meals, or for a snack, if too late to use fresh it gets cooked...for example bananas to ripe go on banana bread or banana pancakes, carrots get put in oats or soups, or cakes too, cabbage gets lightly fried or in the oven

If I have veg that’s close to turning I’ll just chop it up and have either a salad or a stir fry, depending on the veg. I always have something in the freezer to bump it up with.

I waste very little. We have a waste food collection every week and 9/10 weeks mine is completely empty. It only really has anything in it if I buy a whole chicken or joint of meat and, as there are only two of us most of the time, I don’t often do that.

I sometimes throw away some old salad leaves that I didn’t eat in time, and obviously I also throw away egg shells, used teabags, vegetable peelings and banana skins but I compost all of that.

Brings back fond memories of my Grandparents and their edible pets.

It goes to the chicken coop.......

No probably not if they weren’t feeling well and we were worried it was contagious.

Otherwise I would eat the soggy chicken nugget (or more likely my husband would) and put the rice into Tupperware with the rest of the leftover rice (I always cook too much rice).

This level of obsessiveness is probably not a good thing… in fact my husband’s New Year’s resolution was NOT to finish the children’s plates off (because it can lead to overeating) but that hasn’t lasted long!

A few weeks ago I was heating up a handful of cooked carrots I had saved to have with dinner and I forgot them in the microwave… I woke up in the middle of the night and thought “THE CARROTS!!!” and couldn’t get back to sleep.

In the morning I was so tempted to eat them but told myself “NO! IT’S NOT WORTH GETTING FOOD POISONING OVER A HANDFUL OF CARROTS THAT PROBABLY COST 10P.” I had to really force myself to bin them. I think I actually have a problem….

I have a vast compost bin, I used to have chickens, now my friend's chickens get stuff and I tend to have a food clear out every so often, to make weird and wonderful food.
I use eggshells in the compost too, have leaf tea and use my citrus peelings for zest, pot pourri and candying.
I wouldn't say I never get any food waste but me and most of the villagers have looked at our newly issued food waste bins and wondered what alternative uses we can find for them. (Bird food or dog food caddy, shopping trolley and tool box are favourites so far)

Soup tends to be the answer to veg waste.
Prepping veg and putting it into a soup bag in the freezer has worked well for me because I hate waste.
Keep adding to it and then make soup in the pressure cooker.
I have often picked up reduced chicken breasts in the supermarket, quickly prepped the, and added them to the bag too.
It makes for a nourishing tasty soup when pureed.
I used to buy a lot of 500ml of cream for cooking and end up putting it into the freezer.
I use supermarket own brand cream cheese in sauces now. It works so well.

No food waste here because we only buy what we’re going to use. There’s only the two of us though. The food waste bin bag is always full though but that’s eggshells, teabags, fruit and veg peelings and trimmings.

We have always been like that, not just since food prices started going silly.

I don't consider your dc's sandwich crusts or pork chop fat to be 'food waste'. They had it, they tried it, they left some bits they didn't want.
Same here. If they'd been full and ate it anyway, it would have been a waste.

True food waste is you, as an adult, buying things and either not having a plan for how to use it, or changing your plans and not finding a way to store / freeze / reuse the ingerdients.
Yes.
Buying a bag of something when you only want a little bit and binning the rest, or buying a big carton of milk and binning most of it.

I don't consider your dc's sandwich crusts or pork chop fat to be 'food waste'. They had it, they tried it, they left some bits they didn't want.

True food waste is you, as an adult, buying things and either not having a plan for how to use it, or changing your plans and not finding a way to store / freeze / reuse the ingerdients.

Maybe (marginally) if your dc NEVER eats the crusts, then cut them off before making the sandwich and make them into breadcrumbs and freeze.

Some veg peelings you can make things with (oven fried loaded potato skins) or put in soups. But you shouldn't put potato peelings on the compost heap. And there is pretty much nothing you can do with banana skin, the pods from broad beans, or the hard skin of a pomegranate - apart from put them on a compost heap.

Compared to most people on that thread we waste a lot. I don't freeze leftovers and have stopped freezing bread as it seems soggy or strange textured when defrosted.
I don't set out to batch cook, sometimes if making stew or Bolognese I would make extra but not always. Trying to do more of that.
We throw away things like cream cheese that someone has opened and then it's mouldy by the time the next person looks.
Also milk, cheese, last slices of packets of cooked meats.
I don't make stock or broths. Don't have animals. Eat what we want and don't meal plan - dislike eating the same food twice in one week and definitely not two consecutive days. I know a family with a weekly rotation of meals and can't imagine living like that.
I don't think we waste lots but compared to people here using bread for breadcrumbs or making soup with veg that are past it, I just wouldn't be in that mindset.

We have actually been talking to DC about respecting the farmers who grow food and the animals we eat and how we should try to avoid waste. But doubt we will ever get close to zero.

A lot gets wasted in my house. I have an autistic 7 year old who only eats half of what I give him but constantly eats during the day (like a conveyer belt of food). He's really skinny so I'm not going to stop giving him food constantly.

Virtually none - I shop to a list - look for longest dates - freeze meat fish etc unless I intend to use it fairly quickly - leftovers get frozen if enough for a meal - smaller quantities are for lunch at work
If something is on its way out we eat it - as a previous poster says it leads to novel food combos
Eg last night we had chilli - I put all veg that needed eating in to it including leeks, courgettes and aubergine - we didn’t have any rice with it but served in bowls with some chopped avocado on top that needed using

Occasionally I will throw away half a lemon that's been forgotten at the back of the fridge, or a bendy, black carrot. I achieve this by regularly eating leftovers, which often isn't much fun. Eg I'll eat one raw soft carrot, half a plate of pasta from two days ago, half a slice of stale toast, two spoonfuls of yoghurt that no one else will eat.
I also make sure my kids eat what they put on their plates. They always serve themselves and I make sure that they don't have big helpings. They can have seconds if they're still hungry after the first helping, but I don't allow piling your plate full of food and then eating only half.

Our large food caddy gets pretty full each week with peelings, cauliflower leaves, chicken carcasses, egg shells, orange peel, banana skins. I can’t compost as I’m terrified of rodents and when I tried, our bin ended up full of mice 😬
I can’t think of anything we throw away on a regular basis, I wfh so mainly eat the scraps for lunch!

We sometimes make a small amount of veg soup and freeze it if we can't think what else to do with a few bits of floppy veg. Or we bury it in a curry, stew, stir fry, pasta bake.... I've even taken to googling the remaining fridge contents just to see if anyone has come up with an idea for an odd combination that's palatable. You would be surprised!

Not much. If anything gets wasted it’s salad type things that go over too quickly in the fridge or DSS2’s dinner because he is a very picky eater (but mostly we eat it) In fact that’s how we avoid most waste-we eat it all-which is also why we are too fat.
(I also do a rough weekly meal plan and shop specifically for it which we stick to most of the time).

I do cut bits off bits too, so bit of mould on the cheese, cut it off.

Bit of soft bit on some veg, cut it off.

Floppy carrots and sprouting potatoes are still perfectly edible. Just cut the sprouts out and put the carrots in a soup.n

Very little to be honest. The odd piece of fruit turns before we get to it, and sometimes we don't get to the end of the milk, but it's nowhere near enough to get upset about.

Oh yes I see what you mean

I dont put any in a caddy anyway, I wont have one in the kitchen.

I do love a bit of fat though I must say!!!

Thank you so much, this is so helpful

I guess I was looking at it in a literal ‘how much is in your food waste bin at the end of a week’ sense. The vast majority of our food waste in our waste caddy is the extremely unappetising leftovers scraped off a child’s plate (a poster above said that she’d put these in a Tupperware container but I honestly can’t imagine anyone in our family wanting to eat 1/4 of a piece of steak or the fat off a pork chop that one of my kids has left, to be honest!), or the crusts of sandwiches bought home from a packed lunch for example.