At the restaurant, how can you help reduce food waste?
- Whenever possible, reserve your meal.
- Avoid overfilling your plate with food that you are unlikely to consume.
At home, how can you reduce food waste?
- Draw up a shopping list according to household consumption and taking into account the food you already have.
- Go shopping with time and without hunger, in order to purchase only what is really necessary.
- Check the expiry dates of products. During storage, in the pantry and in the fridge, arrange the products with the shortest sell-by dates in the most accessible areas.
- Cook only the necessary amount and use leftovers. If you are not going to eat it in the following days, choose to freeze it!
How can you reuse leftovers?
Leftovers of meat and fish
Vegetable peelings
Hard bread
Vegetable cooking water
Fruit peel and leftovers
Wilted vegetable stalks and leaves
Did you know…
1/3 of all the food produced in the world is wasted?
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