03 March 2025
Why Meal Planning is Your New Best Friend
What if we told you there’s an easy way to make mealtimes smoother, save you money, and reduce food waste all at once? Enter: meal planning.
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03 March 2025
What if we told you there’s an easy way to make mealtimes smoother, save you money, and reduce food waste all at once? Enter: meal planning.
Read The ArticleA year ago, a fridge was placed in central Auckland with the hope that it would encourage people to leave excess food for other people to take. Known as the…
Did you know there is a handy kitchen appliance that can help you throw away less food? We don’t mean your fridge and freezer, but a new benchtop machine that…
This competition has now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Amy Mellor from Papamoa. Thanks to everyone who entered the competition. Freezers are one of our greatest weapons in the fight…
A towering pyramid made out of 2,283 loaves of bread was constructed at Canterbury University to raise awareness of the scale of food waste in New Zealand. As bread is the most…
The extent of food waste in New Zealand will be depicted by a giant bread pyramid, erected at the University of Canterbury on Wednesday 18 October. Engineering students will construct…
Bread is a staple in most Kiwi households. We love it with marmite for breakfast, wrapped around a sausage or as a good old baked bean and cheese toasted sandwich….
Learn how to make a meal in a mug: Recipe: Savoury meal in a mug Recipe: Sweet meal in a mug This may just be the only recipe you’ll ever need….
It’s a regular conversation at dinner tables around the country – parents scolding their children for not finishing their dinner, saying that they should think of the starving children in…
Cartoon by Luo Jie, China Daily What if we told you that there was a way that you could help tackle climate change with very little inconvenience to your daily…
The answer to reducing food waste is to eat your food. But sometimes you may not be excited about eating last night’s leftovers or that brown banana. Keep these 10…
So you know that wasting food is bad for the environment and is costing you money, but you may be wondering how you actually reduce your food waste. Making a…
Have you ever bought a bunch of fresh herbs, used the small amount the recipe called for and then found the rest have gone limp and brown within a day…
Food waste is an issue in many schools, but it is often one that goes unnoticed as uneaten food can go straight from the lunchbox into the rubbish bin without…
There’s nothing more frustrating than going to make a sandwich to find your bread has spots of mould all over it. Whether black or white, grey or blue, mould is…
Food waste is a growing global issue with a third of all of the world’s food going to waste. In New Zealand, the average family throws away three full shopping…
