Find out how you can save money and help the environment by reducing your food waste.
Spring selection
There is a wide range of exciting fruit and vegetables that are in season this spring. Make sure you make the most of what's on offer. You can choose from the humble potato to delicate purple-sprouting broccoli and delicious rhubarb.
A lot of the food we waste could have been used for lunches. So check your fridge before you rush off to work - there might just be a free-lunch waiting in there!
Over a third of the food we buy in Scotland is thrown directly in the bin and over half of this
could have been eaten.
Over £889m worth of food is wasted by consumers in Scotland each year. That's an average
of £410 per household!
If we stopped wasting all this food, we could prevent the equivalent of 1.6 million tonnes of
carbon dioxide each year in Scotland. This is the same as taking 1 in 4 cars off the road.
Around 587,000 tonnes of food waste is thrown out by Scottish households each year.
Hints & tips: Martin Wishart
Take time to forward plan before you visit your local shop, farmers market or supermarket.