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

Freeze it in portions that you'd put on pasta.

Pour a layer of olive oil over the top to seal it.

I don't know but a while ago we had an olive ciabatta and while it was in the oven it gave off such a powerful smell of manure that we didn't eat it and have never bought it again. Put me off for life!

jars of pesto are the MOST annoying things,
they go mouldy after one use, how to get round that?

Yes, then I freeze portions of stock.

bread and cucumber, bags of salad, wrinkly satsumas, black bananas - i thought i was pretty good, We now have a food waste bin so there is no hiding!

Nope. Put them in a little pot or old jar with olive oil.

We don’t waste much edible food but we get an organic veg box so have quite a lot of skins and stalks/tops/leaves depending on the veg.
teabags and coffee grounds and egg shells.
chicken carcass after we’ve made stock and fish heads/tails.
we almost never let supermarket food go off.

We try hard to not waste food - both brought up by parents who were children in WW2 and rationing who were very serious about not wasting food. If we cook too much we just have it again the next day, or freeze it for later.

Here's a tip. If you've got bones from a roast, bag them up in the freezer until you've got enough to fill a stock pot and then make stock. It will be amazing and make superb gravy or base for a sauce or stew.

It’s mainly jars of sauces and things that don’t get used up… I don’t believe too much in the dates but if it says use within 6 weeks a year ago they go.
Actual food- sometimes bread or wraps, occasionally fruit.

Again I wasn't aware that olives go off , do tbey ?

My food waste is almost zero. My food waste bin contains tea bags, egg shells and vegetable scraps. In the last year I have binned one orange that went moldy in the fruit bowl (the others from the same bag were fine), a portion of rice I grossly overcooked because I got distracted by a phone call and some fresh ginger which I noticed was bad when I got it home from the supermarket.

I live alone so its probably easier for me to keep track of what I have and what needs using. This thread made me realise it's just habit for me to check the condition of fresh food daily. I plan meals around what I already have rather than buying new ingredients. I batch cook and freeze or freeze ingredients I know I won't use all of before they go off. It also very convenient if I want diced peppers or minced garlic for example but can't be bothered with prep.

I rotate non-perishables to make sure I'm always using items with the closest best before date first. Perhaps the strangest thing I do is write best before dates on food packaging in Sharpie so I can see the date at a glance without having to find my glasses and the right lighting to read the manufacturers date when I'm getting things together to cook a meal.

Sorted food make an app that is designed around reducing food waste - you get packs of three recipes that use a shared shopping list that will use up the entire amounts of each item you buy (and they take into account the most common packaging size for each item).

It's quite handy for learning the basics needed to aim for zero food waste.

None

Hardly any. I buy fresh, frozen and tinned fruit and veg and use in order. I won't buy or make anything new when there's still food to be eaten or ingredients to use and I tend towards sauce based meals that make it easy to use up veg. I'm vegan so my ingredients last longer which helps. I'm also not that fussed about what I eat at any time, so will eat a curry three days running with different sides to use it up if necessary. I'm a bit obsessed with food waste.

Unfortunately waste a lot. I would love to be the family whose kids will eat anything. I have two who are just so incredibly fussy, I can’t just whip up something with what’s in the fridge. My ds wanted olives, none of us likes olives. He hasn’t eaten them and eventually I threw it away.

Just in case you want to know for next time

If the meatballs and prawns were in date they can go in the freezer

The leeks, carrots can be grated up or chopped up, put in a freezer bag and used for soup, chucking in a casserole. I have grated carrot in the freezer at the moment which I break chunks off and put in carrot cake.

Potatoes never go off, or virtually anyway. But in any case I often freeze mash.

Very little, the key is to think through what you need eg if you are cooking a meal that needs half a pack of coriander, cook another meal the same week that also requires half a pack, alternatively the freezer is your friend, using the same example, coriander, you can chop in and freeze it. I’ll freeze chops and chicken thighs if using half a pack too. The amount of food waste is probably a fist full per week at most not including peelings or the ends off bread which I don’t like (dh will eat them) the the waste is usually down to me putting too much on my plate

I do very tight meal plans so I have very little waste.

Plus also have a dog who eats anything that looks a bit dodgy for me, although there isn't very much of that as I only buy what I've planned to eat.

I disregard use by dates.
My parents didn't have a fridge until the 1970s and there were no dates food.
We weren't poisoned.

As long as items look and smell OK I use them.

We have very little mainly because I menu plan

See I would make soup from bendy carrots and sprouted potatoes.
Do eggs even go off if unopened ?
We only have signifcant food waste if the meal plan goes wrong.

Unlike many people on here, I and my family are not perfect and so sometimes have food waste. Sometimes we don’t eat everything on our plate for various reasons so that will go in the food waste. Sometimes we overcook and it’s not something that will keep well. Sometimes my son with ARFID will all of a sudden refuse to eat something he previously ate. So we have a small caddy of food waste every 2 weeks when it’s collected. I’m fine with that.

Hardly any waste here - I meal plan for the week and buy what I need . The only time there is waste is if someone is ill and not got an appetite . If there is anything leftover then I plan it into the first meal of the new week . I’ll also freeze things like bread if it’s obvious it’s not going to be used . I come from a family where both my parents lost their dad at the age of 10 - pre welfare state - so have been brought up to be careful . It’s not something you shake off I don’t think

Oh and we don't eat meat so don't need to worry about that going off!