My youngest was always diving into the fridge to grab raw veggies as an after school snack. She loved carrotts, cauli and cabbage

Thank You for this review it had some great points of interest. Good healthy ideas.

I hate when I let fruit and vegetables go to waste. So easy to happen if you don’t have a plan. I should plan my meals each week and then there’d be less waste!

This is definitely my problem. I’ve thrown so many fruit and veg out into the compost bin and I feel so bad as I know people in other countries are starving not to mention the amount of money I’ve wasted.
I started following some low waste accounts on Instagram to get some tips and tricks on how to use and salvage food that is going to go off.

It gets hard sometimes, maybe start up a small compost in the yard so if you do end up with some sad looking fruit or veggies it can be put to good use for your yard. if you have the time prepping some veggies can help you in the long run. Dicing up a heap of sweet potato and pumpkin and roasting them then store in the freezer, handy when you want to bulk out a meal and they can last a long time.

When you’re busy its so hard to not make these mistakes. Frozen fruit and vegetables are underrated and are a great option to not have that time pressure. I can relate when she said that when dinner is up to the husband everyone ends up eating instant noodles haha!

I’ve never claimed to be a perfect mum, so this allows me the Lee way to throw out veggies, especially if they’re soggy and well past their best before

Once I end up with bits left over I do a veggie bake and it gets rid of the lot

Once, a long time ago, I could buy fruit and vegetables for the fortnight. These days many of them don’t last five days. I’m a frozen fruit and vegetable buyer now as well as tin food as I live too far from my nearest grocery store to be buying fruit and vegetables every five minutes. Less waste now I go for frozen and tin with minimal fresh.

I don’t overbuy fruit/veg so that I use up what I have before I buy more.

We all have those days/weeks. I buy frozen dinners and on those nights when I either forgot I’m responsible for feeding the kids, am exhausted or honestly can’t be bothered I pull them out and heat up one each for the kids, then hours later will make eggs on toast for my husband and I. Or I load up the air fryer with fish, chicken burger patties, or nuggets; chips and spring rolls then warm a garlic bread for dinner. As for fruit and veg, my kids love it, but I still find so much gets thrown out. But I in no way feel bad about telling them to get it themselves. Get an apples, wash it and eat it. Grab a banana. Open the fridge and fill a bowl with berries. If they are capable of doing it I encourage their independence.

This happens occasionally because…well like you said…life!! I dont usually throw too much out though with alot of it being saved to go in stews & cooking if it’s too far gone to be eaten fresh

Yes, it can be very easy to let veggies slip!

great article and loved all the ideas. I love the hiding vegies approach although my family can often “sniff” things out

Absolutely loved this article and the sense of humour. No wastage now. Great ideas though.

lots of bits and bobs of veg that isn’t quite crisp or perfect still, goes in a fritata, bolognese or soup.

I’ve certainly changed my eating habits in the past 18 months. I now buy fruit and veges every week and many times we actually run out before the next shop. Everything is washed before being put away and our snacks now consist of fruit. I don’t have any tips on how to include more fruit and veg, I just make sure it’s always fresh and appetising.

Every morning I cut up a bowl of fruit for all the kids and one in the evening for my husband, besides that they get a fruit in their lunchboxes and with what is cut of and left over I make a daily smoothy for them. I also try to add some quakes / carrots/ tomato and flava bans/ chickpeas in their lunchboxes. For dinner we never do take away, I cook for every evening dinner with as much as possible fresh veggies. Takes me often a hour or so, I wish I could cook quicker

We hardly throw out anything as we tend to cook most of what we buy, left overs etc we don’t finish go to our dog.

My kids are the odd kids, they grab fruit & veg snacks freely from the fridge, even at parties. At some parties, there has been nothing but junk and my eldest has asked for fruit or yoghurt. I allow her to indulge at parties but she chooses not to. My difficulty is the opposite, having enough fruit and veg every week.