Christmas Cookery lessons Army-Style at Locks Heath Centre on 27th November

After the success of last year's Campaign, Army troops from the 33 Field Hospital will again be cooking up some delicious Christmas themed recipes at the Locks Heath Centre using just leftover food.

 

To promote the Love Food, Hate Waste Campaign, Troops will be at the Locks Heath Centre from 9am until 2pm demonstrating how easy it is to prepare leftover meals - and letting us have a taste. Also there will be Fareham Borough Council's Waste and Recycling Officers offering advice on food waste and sensible shopping.

 

There will be a 'Love Food, Hate Waste Quiz' with prizes including a meal for two at Antonio’s in Fareham, and a two course Sunday lunch for two at the Golden Lion in Fareham. If you’re the lucky winners, make sure that you eat it all up!

 

Each year 8.3 million tonnes of food is thrown away by households in the UK – this equates to roughly £680 per year for an average family with children, or £57 per month. This is just the cost to us. There are serious environmental implications too, as when we throw away edible food, the energy, water and packaging used in the food’s production, transportation and storage also goes to waste. According to the Love Food Hate Waste website if we stopped wasting food which could have been eaten, it would have the same impact on carbon emissions as taking 1 in 4 cars off the road.

 

Christmas is traditionally a time for leftovers, but if you would like to see how to plan your Christmas meal so that you don’t have too much food left at the end, see the Love Food, Hate Waste website.

 

If you have any great recipes for Christmas leftovers, why not share them with us at LocksHeathPeople?

ON a related note, we in Hampshire are the best recyclers in the country! Recent figures released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have shown that for the fourth year running, Hampshire has topped the table for diverting domestic waste from landfill.

 

Hampshire produces 650,000 tonnes of municipal waste every year and over 90% of this is recycled, composted or converted to electricity at three state-of-the-art energy recovery facilities.

 

Councillor Mel Kendal, Hampshire County Council’s Executive Member for Environment said, “No other county authority in England can boast such a high tonnage of landfill diversion. This couldn’t be achieved without the support of the people of Hampshire, so I’d like to take this opportunity to thank those committed recyclers who have helped Hampshire County Council to become the leading authority in the country for managing waste and reducing reliance on landfill.”