Hello Dear Reader,
Never fear Britain - Froogs has the answer! Oh, it's a blog post that some of you won't like so brace yourself. I want you all to look down at your waistline, then your hips, then feel around your neck and see if there's anything spare. There is...............well, you've been buying too much food and spending too much on food for a while now!
As a nation, we buy too much food and have come accustomed to 'big shops' and big portions. Consequently almost every household in the land will contain an excess of food. Actually, we need a lot less food and need to get used to smaller portions, smaller meals, stop snacking and buy less food. How many of you measure out 50g of pasta? It really isn't very much? Who measures out 100g of potato? It's just one small potato and yet that will provide you with all the starch you will need in one meal.
I want you to cup one hand and see how much pasta, or rice, or potatoes, or fruit, or bread you can get in it. That's a portion size. I want you to find the dimensions of a pack of playing cards and that is the maximum meat you need in a day.
This was an interesting graphic - who's ever eaten a pack of Maryland cookies in one sitting? Or all of the multi-pack of crisps? One Mac Donald's a chips is a day's worth of calories! If they were not in the house (all bar the takeaway) the you couldn't and wouldn't eat it.
Back to the first graphic from Love food, hate waste. We keep our bread in the freezer and just take out our slice each for toast and then it doesn't go off. As it's frozen, then neither of us can whip up a quick cheese sandwich. I grate cheese and freeze that too, so I just take out what I need and the temptation is not there to over eat. As there's just the two of us, I don't buy fresh potatoes. In fact, I usually buy two baking potatoes a week but now I've changed those to frozen too. We only ever buy UHT milk which is fine open in the fridge for a couple of days and we never buy ready meals or fizzy drinks.
My piece of advice for everyone one, is stop buying so much food. Serve up smaller portions. Measure out the food you need by weight and not eye. Follow the serving guidance, so 30g of cereal for a woman and 50g for a man. This means I now eat my rice cereal out of a mug and not a bowl as the serving will a mug just fine. I measure 100g of pasta and I eat under half of that amount.
We don't waste food as we don't buy any more than we need and we don't cook anymore than we need. There's no waste here.
Over to you, who is over shopping? who serves big portions and can see or feel where it's gone? Who is going to cut their shopping bill by cutting the portion sizes. Is bulking buying leading you to bulk portions or bulk meal sizes.
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxx