Plan ahead and avoid wasting precious resource

Most of us have thrown out food sometimes, whether it’s gone out of date or we've just bought far too much.

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The Energy Saving Trust reckons two thirds of what we throw away could've been used if we'd managed it better.

If you do have to throw away food waste, the trust says, try to recycle it. If you live in an area with a local food waste recycling collection service, you can use this to recycle anything you can’t eat or compost at home.

Some local councils will provide a food recycling facility and other areas will have private operators that will collect food waste - check with your local council for details.

It offers the following tips:

Get to know your kitchen cupboards: Keeping track of what you've got in already means you're less likely to buy food you don’t need.

Keep an eye on use by and best before labels: Remember ‘best before’ is about quality, you can safely use food after this date if it looks and smells okay but ‘use by’ means just that - don’t use the food after this date.