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Most of us make an effort to plan our shop and minimise food waste, but even with the best will in the world, all too often we end up with items left over - and the people from the Unilever Project Sunlight would like to know which are your repeat waste offenders. Is there a fruit that always gathers mould at the bottom of the bowl? Or what about the last spoonful of pasta sauce that you swore you'd use up? Are you afflicted by unconsumed anchovies? Stressed out by surplus celery?

Please share what - despite your best efforts - you find yourself regularly binning on kitchen clean out day. And just to even things up a bit, why not let us know which foods you'd rate as your enduring heroes: the ones that could sit happily on your shelves and emerge perfectly edible even in the event of a nuclear apocalypse ...

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fresh herbs - we never manage to finish the whole packet.

Also cream cheese and other diary products like soured cream.

Sorry, but it's nothing much. The last thing we threw out was some brie we'd forgotten about.

Theres normally half a pack of mushrooms left over!

end of the week..more like the month :(, sauces..lots of jars of sauces, haf eaten, and there is new ones there of the same ones that someone has opened !!

onion
yougurts (the frube type 1s)
the odd chocolate

ALIENS.....lol my DD believes they will lay eggs and reproduce they have been at the back of my fridge for over a month and she will not let me move them :(

Invariably, it's a half finished pack of lettuce which goes off to quickly

Usually leftover meat from a roast dinner that has gone hard and no one wants it!

Half tub of cottage cheese
Left over cucumber
Left over mushrooms

Coriander, I love it but the packs the fresh stuff comes in never last more than a couple of days and I never manage to use it all so end up picking out the black leaves so I can use as much as possible but it always ends up being thrown away.

Greens

Lettuce.

Never ever manage a whole one. Or a bag of washed.

I have found a way though- I lob it into soup. Makes it really creamy, (oddly)

My never be without though are eggs (my Mum always said "if you've got an egg, you've got a meal") and tins of tomatoes. Because if you've got them, you've got pasta sauce.

Cream cheese

Limes. Limes go bad so much quicker than lemons. Why do I always forget this?

Courgettes and carrots!

Always lettuce,tomatoes and cucumber. I buy at the supermarket with the intention of eating healthy all week but somehow it doesn't work out like that.

There is usually an odd out of date yoghurt & half an onion that have been forgotten about. We try to buy fresh & use straight away, so we don't tend to waste much

I hate waste but I'm guilty of forgetting about yoghurt, salad cream, half a tin of baked beans, cucumber & celery.

Apples, carrots & lemons seem to go on forever in the fridge, I can always rely on them.

Herbs - usually parsley and coriander. I love both of them so will continue to buy them regularly, but we never manage to use them up before they go bad.

Usually a half open tin of spaghetti hoops! No veg go off round here we have 13 guinea pigs!! Also often a hard bit of cheese that someone hasn't wrapped up properly

Left overs from meals and veg

Pre-packaged vegetables like carrots and potatoes the pack sizes are always too big even for a larger family they always go off before we can use them. I often end up buying them because the supermarkets don't always have the option of buying them loose. The other thing is fruit like plums and peaches, they often start going mouldy before they have ripened.

We love cheese and always have a good selection. There's always a little left of most of them by the end of the week.

Always seems to be half a cucumber, so instead of buying a whole one I bought half and then they moan that we run out of it, I can't win

Bags of grated cheese! They always seem to go mouldy within days and I'm forever throwing them out as never finish them off fast enough. Oh and Philadelphia cheese. That goes mouldy fast too.

CUCUMBER
YOGHURT
SPROUTS

oh no.... ducking now and preparing to be mobbed...... its mainly Wine I throw away - Im the only one that drinks it and a lot of the time I have one glass and then the bottle sits in the fridge and a week later i pour it away. The only thing is coleslaw - love the stuff but again no one else in the family eats it and there is absolutely nothing i can do with it - i always buy the smallest of tubs! As for the item of food that could almost last out a nuclear war it would have to be onions - I love them and always bob some in the oven and have roasted onions with whatever we are eating, but even if one gets forgotten at the very back depths of deepest space at the back of the fridge it still tastes good when its been roasted!