It’s hard working and getting meals done but it’s so important. We very rarely eat take away. My idea of a quick meal when I have no time is fish, chips and salad so we are at least still getting the veggies and it isn’t as unhealthy as it could be. Most of the time I make time to cook something. Even if it’s a matter of preparing the slow cooker the night before and switching it on in the morning. I begrudge throwing anything out and must say that I do try to avoid it at all costs and rarely do throw out fresh fruit or veg.

I think we all find ourselves in this situation. I’m there now but with fruit. With the extremely hot weather I went mad on all things fruit (in the fridge) that I love to eat when it’s hot… only for it to drop to cool in Melbourne. So no-one wants to eat fruit. If its veg, I can cope. Everything can be thrown into a zucchini/vegie/surprise slice, but fruit… I don’t have as many options.

We only but as we need it, which means more trips to the supermarket but we make it then into our family walks to go to the supermarket and home

I tend not to stock pile too much in the fridge. But what I do find helpful is having a lot of veg pre-cut in the fridge. Then there is no excuse for not being able to whip up a quick stirfry.

We grow a lot of our food, so I plan my meals around what is ripe and ready in the garden. Never throw stuff out though but there’s a lot of made up meals in the fridge/freezer.

I buy as I need but this week it definitely piled up on us this week

I shop several times a week for fresh fruit. It’s annoying have to go to the shops so much but we waste a lot less.

I freeze a lot of it when it’s getting close to it’s expiry date, it rescues a lot

I plan my shopping needs as concisely as I can so I have no wastage – I’d rather make a separate trip to the shops for something I need rather than buy extra and throw it away.

I don’t throw anything out and make sure it doesn’t go to waste. It does mean that I usually don’t cook double serves, just enough for all of us.

I do a meal plan and only buy the amounts I need. I hate wasting food

I am using broccoli stack for stir fry…

We buy as we go to avoid wastage

Sometimes it happens to me too. Before going shopping, I always check the fridge, to see which content I have “forgotten”. To include more vegetables in my diet, I freeze a big bag of mixed spinach and kale. Then I make a smoothie mixing one cup of greens, one cup of diced frozen mango and two cups of water.

I rarely throw out fruit or veggies. I actually tend to use most of them as I limit myself to what I buy

Yeah, not so much here. I love my fruit and veg too much to let it go to waste and throw it out

I could have written this article myself. It happens sometimes, it’s ok as long as it’s just ‘sometimes’ and doesn’t become a habit

We toss them out all the time as there’s always one or two at the bottom that go soggy etc.

I hate wasting fruit and veggies but it happens!

No way, nobody is perfect 🙂