Tips to make fruit and vegetables last longer

🥬🍎🥔🍇🗑️🤔 Did you know that fruit and vegetables, plus roots and tubers, have the highest wastage rates of any food? Not only does this food waste cost us money, but it also has a wider cost to the environment. Luckily Grandma Sita provides you with tips to make them last longer and enjoy tasty plant-based meals on a budget. It’s time to get things started! 

👵💚 Grandma Sita’s tips:
1️⃣ We often throw out the same types of food, for the same reasons, regularly. Being aware of this is the first step to reducing the food, and money you waste.
2️⃣ Plan your meals, make a shopping list, and only buy the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables you need to use. Remember, a straightforward solution to wasting food is simply buying less of it.
3️⃣ With a few simple changes, from storing food correctly to using up your leftovers, you can keep your food waste to a minimum and make the most of your food shop.
4️⃣ Most food can be frozen as single ingredients, or you can even batch-cook meals and freeze them for another day.
5️⃣ Peelings from potatoes and citrus, fruit and vegetable cores, and stems can be used for compost. Composting at home is a great way to reduce the amount of food waste going to landfill.

🌎 Nearly half of all fruits and veggies produced globally are wasted each year. Remember when we waste food, we are also wasting all the resources that have been used to produce that food, such as land, water, soil, energy, and all the other inputs invested. All of us can act at home to reduce our waste and every single one counts.