Reducing your food waste impact at home

 

Visit the Community Aber E Hub Forum

Visit the E-Hub, a new forum that launched during the Coronavirus pandemic. When the ECO Food Sharing Hub closed for events, workshops, radical film club and other community activities, volunteers and community spirit have set up an electronic version of the hub here. Get involved and share your skills with the community?

 

Get creative, or use a recipe finder!

Start with what ingredients you have, and use the Love Food Hate Waste recipe finder to see what you can make with your food. ‘Find a leftover recipe’!

Learn how to get creative in the kitchen, it is important for our health and our wellbeing - find out why here.

Check out Jack Monroe, she runs the website ‘Cooking on a bootstrap’, she partnered with Love Food Hate Waste to support the campaign ‘Flung together food’.

Missing an essential ingredient?

What to use instead of an egg? (banana for sweet dishes; or chia seeds for savoury)

Or are you missing tomatoes or tinned tomatoes? (veg stock and tomato puree)

Got no pasta? (Spirals or thinly slice vegetables like carrots or courgette)

Check out hubbubs instagram for more tips..

Have you got any missing ingredient tips you can share? Head over to our community e hub forum to share your tips!

Learn how to lacto-ferment or pickle!

Fermenting vegetables is very easy - see our blog on how to make sauerkraut, or visit Kitchen Counter Cultures blog for more inspiration and ideas on how to get creative with ferments!

Check out #Food Savvy for tips on planning meals and more…

Hubbubs Food Savvy page has lots of tips and tricks on reducing your food waste! Like how to use up things in the back of your store cupboard, or download their meal planner template and find meal planning tips here.

Three ideas for your food scraps:

  1. Make a Scrap Stock (See the video below)

2. Compost your fruit and vegetable choppings and peelings (find out why you should compost here)

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3. DIY Build your own wormery for cooked food scraps (See video below)

Use your freezer, and use it well !!!!

Labelling, getting the containers right, refreshing you freezer and using the food in it!

Learning what you can freeze - did you know you can freeze eggs, cheese, dough and more..

Use the community fridge at the ECO Food Sharing Hub

Woohoo ! Big love and community spirit hi-fives for our beautiful Aberystwyth Community Fridge. Find out more here.

Use your neighbours, or Apps?

Why not knock on your neighbours door, offer them your surplus, start a conversation.

Or if you don’t want to do that, why not download and use an app like Olio to swap food with other neighbours who are also reducing their environmental impact! Find out more here.

Anaerobic Digestion

Our green/food waste bins in Aberystwyth travel South to Bridgend to be processed through Anaerobic Digestion (AD). This creates methane gas that is burnt to produce energy and a slurry. Although this is better than food waste going to landfill, it is an intensive process. We are encouraging businesses to utilise the food waste bin. However, our food waste hierarchy favours composting over AD, as compost is a valuable resource and we need to produce compost and grow more food in our local area.