To ask you all nicely if you didnt watch Hughs war on waste, to please please watch on catch up if you can.

[fruitandbarley]

I knew we were a wasteful country, and I'm not without blame myself, although do try to not throw things away that can be used, but this really was an eye opener, when there's people struggling to eat and struggling with bills, completely aside from the madness of throwing away millions of tons of perfectly good produce because someone at the supermarket thinks it's not good looking enough (despite proof that when rules were relaxed in times of shortage sales remained the same and nobody noticed), ruining people's livelihoods, this programme/series might actually make people change what they're doing.

YANBU

It's not often anything on TV makes my jaw drop, but this really did.

So much so, that I recorded it to show my DH and DSs.

That poor farming family at the end

What's it called?
When was it on?
What channel ?

Please

It made me cry. Friends of mine have recently had to use a foodbank and to see the level of waste made my heart ache. The start was a bit annoying but I am boycotting Morrisons and searching t'web to find that the lovely farming family have gone under. Bastards. Bastards. Bastards.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nzl76

Will find and watch.

I'm not in the UK so haven't seen it yet, but hope it makes it out here. If anyone knows if it is online please let me know.

Unfortunately that link doesn't work over here :(

Backforgood it was on tonight BBC1 at 9pm.

bump bump bump, and will do so again tomorrow.

thanks, OP.

One of the most thought provoking things I have seen recently. That pile of parsnips, what waste :(

Everyone should watch it.

Yanbu! The waste here sickens me. I was once thrown out of a shop for trying to buy the 'rejects' trolley- a lidl worker was 200 yards ahead of me throughout my shop, filling a trolley with food. Not labelling it for reduction. I asked to buy it all ( I volunteer at a community homeless centre- I could've made four weeks of meals - on the day, without letting anything go over 'date' to freeze the meals) but was refused. I argued. I was asked, forcefully, to leave. Wasteful in ethical terms, and profit terms- had I arrived 5 mins earlier I could have purchased it all

I absolutely LOVE parsnips. It broke my heart to see them all wasted, and the farmers out of pocket big time. Grrrrr! To the supermarkets. They have had their day, and I'm fed up with them dictating what we can and cannot eat.
I'd easily buy mis shapen fruit and veg. Not that those parsnips were mis shapen anyway....

And KFC?? I suppose they were brave enough to actually come on screen to explain what they're doing, but there are charities crying out for food!! Get a bloody move on... Get the leftovers out to those that really need it.

(Disclaimer: did not see the first 10 minutes or the last 10).

The farmers (of the parsnips) have gone under.

Thanks everyone, I was half expecting that I'd be told they were big business and had to do what they're doing, aside from the recycling aspect of the programme. And use by / sell by dates are ridiculous anyway, a good sniff sorts that out, how do people think we all managed before dates were stamped on things, something ok at 11.59pm is highly unlikely to kill you the day after. Anyone got any good ideas of how to solve the whole problem, cause I've been thinking and struggling so far.

OP YANBU! I totally agree - whilst I'm not without blame (who is?) the waste on that programme was truly shocking.

I can't afford to throw food away like that and budget carefully - we have 'bottom of the fridge soup' when the need arises to use up the bendy carrots or I'll turn them into cake or a casserole.

I think that one of the primary problems of household waste is the 'best before' date. People really don't seem to be able to trust their own judgment as to whether something is still edible any more and feel they can't use it even when it is probably perfectly OK.

I watched it and thought it was very thought provoking
Many years ago as a student I worked at KFC and can attest to the waste of chicken
My DD worked at a local supermarket when she was a student and they were instructed to pour bleach and blue dye in the food waste bins as people used to rifle through them after closing time
The personal waste I found more mystifying - having been brought up on bread and jam in far harder times than we mostly see now - very little goes to waste in our home, and there is plenty of recycling
Clothes get sold on eBay, if not suitable go to charity shop, if too worn to send there, then cash for clothes for rags

I had a tour round an anaerobic digester a little while ago (I know how to live life!) and it was fascinating.

However I was shocked at the contract the company had with two large fast food chains to take the bins of food where the 'time limit' had just run out. It's not this company's fault and at least the food is being turned into energy, but it shouldn't be going there.

Isn't he the one who had a over someone while they were sleeping?

Anyway thanks for the reminder I'll dl it

Jacelancs, how long ago was your daughter asked to do that ??

It's ridiculous that cheese, yoghurt, milk has use by dates- if you can't smell/judge dairy is good or not how can we move forward. Dc school sent back a fromage frais that she took to school that was 2 days over the use by. Wouldn't let her eat it. She enjoyed at home- because we can all make cheese/butter/yoghurt ourselves, and if we do it's our noses that tell is the bb date- not a stamp! Crazy!

" Had a over someone"?? Not sure I understand the question rainbow.

He allegedly did something naughty, I'm sticking to mnet tradition of mentioning it whenever he's mentioned

Cooking - my aunt was a microbiologist who specialised at one point in yoghurt. She said that unless the lid is blown it's fine. As children my Ma always used to buy the yoghurts going cheap at the end of the dates because of that! (MIL still doesn't believe me though!)