Quite agree Chris .
I soon as I bring the shopping home , I spend about 15 minutes dividing up the family packs of meat and anything else that will freeze !
I keep a big wad of the plastic bags that I pinch from the fruit and veg dept.
What use is BOGF on fruit & veg , to a single person or even a couple , unless it can be stewed /cooked and frozen !
Previous research by WRAP has revealed that 6.7 million tonnes of food is thrown away by UK consumers each year, equivalent to a third of food bought. Most of this could have been eaten, and 40% (by weight) of this avoidable food waste is made up of fruit & vegetables, worth almost £3 billion. Almost 90% of this fruit & vegetable waste consists of fresh produce, about 1.4 million tonnes, and most is thrown away as a result of not being used in time (before going off or out of date). For example the top five fruit and vegetables which get thrown away whole, without being touched are:
Apples – 4.4 million per day
Potatoes – 5.1 million per day
Bananas – 1.6 million per day
Tomatoes – 2.8 million per day
Oranges – 1.2 million per day