Love food hate waste

Every year in the UK we throw away a staggering one third of all the food we buy. Love Food Hate Waste - a campaign from the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) - highlights the fact that wasted food is a waste of money and a major contributor to climate change. And the most frustrating thing is most of what we throw away could have been eaten - it's not just peelings, tea bags and bones!

The Love Food Hate Waste website provides delicious recipes to make the most of the food in our fruit bowl, fridge and cupboards. It gives handy hints for storing food, surprising facts on what can be frozen and much more. Visit Love Food Hate Waste (opens in a new window) where you can find out some handy hints for saving food waste as well as some delicious recipes.

Look out for our roadshows around Dorset (accompanied by some very large inflatable fruit), where we will be handing out free cookbooks.  Please note that the Best Leftovers Cook in Dorset competition has now finished. Our winners were:

• Sarah Parr -  Mum's cowboy pie [148kb] (opens in a new window) (overall winner)
• Joan Fox- Crispy potato and meat cake [127kb] (opens in a new window)
• Tracy Chadwick - Turkey and vegetable pasties [157kb] (opens in a new window)
• Penny Cull - Chickables [144kb] (opens in a new window)
• Debra Howard - Bread and apple treacle tart [147kb] (opens in a new window)

• Name: Waste Management Services
  Email: waste@dorsetcc.gov.uk
  Tel: 01305 225002
  Fax: 01305 224961
  Full details for Waste Management Services