Shop throwing out items, yes please!

[blitznbobs]

I heard a shoot offered a food bank some pheasants..... rejected.

We have a large kitchen garden and over lockdown It looked like a market garden with leeks, beetroot, spuds, beans etc etc etc and fruit grows from all our old trees (plums apples pears grapes quince raspberries etc) i took a load to our local food bank as we often have gluts and our freezer is always too full anyway … the food bank refused it cos it was fresh and had no use by dates as it wasn’t commercially produced —- so I sat outside and gave it away out of my boot — all went in about an hour… it sucks that rules stop perfectly good food being eaten — i now just stick it out on the foot path at the back of our arena and it all goes very quickly.

 

[Barton Bounty]

A friend works in a boutique hotel in Edinburgh, and a couple of weeks back, someone gained access to the kitchen and stole some food , he was caught running out the door and my friend caught his hand, the terrified look on the guys face, he said please, im just so hungry, friend let him go, its blinking heartbreaking, when your so hungry all you can do is steal food

 

[Sealine]

I'm another who hates food waste. People get obsessed with use by and sell by dates. I hate throwing food away and use my own judgement as to whether something can be eaten. I cut the mould off cheese and bread and use it. I eat eggs last week that were a week out of date but you'll soon know if an egg is off. I gave my sister-in-law a home made feta and spinach quiche recently. She eat a piece for her lunch the next day and then threw the rest in the bin in case it had gone off! I am very careful with shellfish though.

 

[webble]

What's odd to me is that pigs cannot be fed swill anymore. It's a complete waste of food that it gets thrown out, AND pigs (I am sure) much preferred the swill to the so-called balanced stuff they get now.

That will be linked to BSE no doubt

 

[Equi]

Why don’t the markets put the berries and stuff in the freezer? I’d lift a bag of berries out, I don’t need them to be in a specific “berries” brand bag.

 

[Equi]

Oh by the way, he didn’t like turnip ?

 

[Barton Bounty]

I'm another who hates food waste. People get obsessed with use by and sell by dates. I hate throwing food away and use my own judgement as to whether something can be eaten. I cut the mould off cheese and bread and use it. I eat eggs last week that were a week out of date but you'll soon know if an egg is off. I gave my sister-in-law a home made feta and spinach quiche recently. She eat a piece for her lunch the next day and then threw the rest in the bin in case it had gone off! I am very careful with shellfish though.

Im the opposite to you, I wont eat it after the date and I smell everything before I put it in my mouth lol, after eating something many years ago and being ill lol

 

[Gamebird]

That will be linked to BSE no doubt

Foot and mouth disease, not BSE (that was cattle)

 

[Birker2020]

A friend works in a boutique hotel in Edinburgh, and a couple of weeks back, someone gained access to the kitchen and stole some food , he was caught running out the door and my friend caught his hand, the terrified look on the guys face, he said please, im just so hungry, friend let him go, its blinking heartbreaking, when your so hungry all you can do is steal food

How sad. What kind of world we live in where people in this country that is considered a developed country, can be so hungry, it makes me want to cry ?

 

[webble]

Foot and mouth disease, not BSE (that was cattle)

Sorry, yes, but it was bought about through dodgy feed that's more what I was getting at

 

[Lois Lame]

I think that has a lot to do with swine vesicular and foot and mouth diseases which was spread by feeding food waste.

They may have preferred it, but stopping swill feeding was a major step in controlling foot and mouth disease. Anyone from a farming background who lived through the absolute horror of FMD (and sadly some people didn't survive it) will be right behind the swill feeding ban,

Ah, thank you. I suppose then that the swill was not correctly cooked in order for this to happen...?

 

[Lois Lame]

I'm another who hates food waste. People get obsessed with use by and sell by dates. I hate throwing food away and use my own judgement as to whether something can be eaten. I cut the mould off cheese and bread and use it. I eat eggs last week that were a week out of date but you'll soon know if an egg is off. I gave my sister-in-law a home made feta and spinach quiche recently. She eat a piece for her lunch the next day and then threw the rest in the bin in case it had gone off! I am very careful with shellfish though.

I'm the same, though I don't eat bread that has any mould on it. And I don't like fish full stop.

 

[mariew]

Food banks would also have an issue of storing fresh fruit and veg. Tinned and frozen stuff lasts longer and is easier to manage. Saying that our local foodbank will take fresh produce and people drop off excess apples etc.