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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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Green peppers, buy them in a pack of three but only really like the red and yellow ones

Always vegetables!! We buy fresh veg and end up buying loads of different types to mix it up during the week, but there is constantly a mass of veg at the back of the fridge every week as we can't get through a whole pack of sweetcorn, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce etc all in a week and it goes out of date so quickly

Thanks for all the millions (not literally) of comments - am pleased to say pantone363 wins the £250 voucher! Well done.

Well done pantone363!

Ham, half eaten bags of soggy watercress. Yogurts (the unpopular flavours from a mixed punnet)

Normally a bottle of sauce. I am terrible for seeing a new flavour of ketchup or mayo, buying it, using it once and then finding it at the back of the fridge still mostly full months later.

I live on my own, so I waste the rest of the packet of everything that doesn't come in small enough packets. I can get through about two thirds of a full-sized loaf of bread on my own before it goes off, and I never finish a packet of fresh rocket before it goes slimy. Cheese also sometimes gets chucked if I've accidentally not sealed the packet well enough - why don't they sell it more often in resealable packaging?

Salad. Seems like a good idea at the time then the fast food takeaway takes precedence - My Bad

normallyy it's effs or the odd bit of cheese that's too small to cut that is left I hate to throw food away

usually half a lemon but I tell myself it keeps the fridge smelling nice but usually its just because I forgot

Sour cream we always buy a tub for fajitas use it once and then end up throwing it away as we only have tex mex style food less than once a month!!

We seem to keep throwing away packets of ham as well as we buy it to make sandwiches, use up all the bread and then by the time we get around to making sandwiches the ham is off!

Things in jars seem most easily forgotten. I recently did a jar purge and chucked a load of furry pesto and suspect pickles. Am being more careful now not to have multiple similar things open.

Bagged salad is another culprit, or should that be victim...

Usually avocados. I keep getting these grand ideas about making guacamole and then I forgot and by the time I remember it's gone rank