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Feedback: Household Waste

  1. What are the personal challenges you face in trying to reduce household food waste?

 

  • We do not have enough space in the bin. We buy more than we need

  • Main problem is having food go out of date before I can get around to eating it (often happens with bread, less often with vegetables)

  • I tend to buy more than I need

  • I live in an apartment and don't have space for the compost

  • Cannot pre plan how to deal with meals and its waste

  • Lots of frikin plastic containers that supermarkets wrap meat and veggies

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Give me an example

  • Going to Woolworths the displays attract me when I am hungry and I buy more than I need for a household of two people

  • eg A loaf will last me for a few days, but if I don't make sandwiches every day it'll be stale before I finish it.

  • e.g. vegetables go off easily even placed in the fridge)

  • also food waste attracts cockroaches and flies and it's cleaner and easier to put it in the bin

  • Like was planning to make sandwich at home, bought loaf of bread and pack of turkey. The intent was to make sandwich for few consecutive meals but both ended up wasted within a week (due to busy work schedule)

  • eg strawberries etc

 

What have you tried to solve the problem?

  • I try to only do grocery shopping on Monday one day a week

  • I also don't have a freezer, so I can't do what I used to - cook big batches and freeze them

  • not buy so much at a time

  • eat frozen veggies

  • Tried instant meals and recycle packaging

  • Buying fruit that doesn’t use plastic packaging

 

Did it work?

  • Yes. I do not take a large bag I case i buy more than I need

  • Haven't really come up with a solution. Smaller loaves run out too quickly if I do make sandwiches every day. I just get normal loaves and accept I may waste food.

  • but I can't estimate how much cooking time I may have as workload is unpredictable and cooking time is therefore restricted

  • you can only have so much frozen veggies and most green veggies don't store well in freezer

  • No, still had issue with dealing additional thrash and recycling

  • Kinda works, still a lot of plastic waste

 

Feedback: Sharing the Grocery Shop

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What challenges do you have in providing groceries in your household?

  1. Access to your home (stairs), poor parking near home.

  2. Don’t like to drive, carrying home heavy items.

  3. Had no car for a year made life really hard.

  4. Shopping to a recipe is time consuming.

  5. Time poor to do the shopping  - annoying 2 hours every Saturday

  6. Impulse purchasing is annoying.

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What challenges do you have in reducing household food waste?

  1. Inability to fine tune ProduceDirect shop contents.

  2. Berry’s waste quickly!

  3. Plan for a week, go out, leftover food no time to eat.

  4. Compost everything… waste is at least “recycled”.

  5. Strong meal planning minimises waste.

  6. Food waste occurs when I’m time poor…

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How do you normally manage that problem?

  1. Make many small shops to avoid carrying large quantities up the stairs.

  2. Trying to grow own fruit and veg

  3. Food that goes off goes in the bin, bananas go in a cake.

  4. Well stocked pantry ready to go.

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What solutions have you previously considered?

  1. Fruit and veg coop membership, pick up at your convenience from another local home.

  2. No other solutions tried… grew a box of herbs no time to maintain , they died.

  3. Online shopping – cost is high, packaging is excessive.

  4. Online shopping – Questionable ethics from major supermarkets and fruit and veg selection.

  5. What attracted you to those solutions? Did they work?

  6. ProduceDirect is Cheap, good quality, cutting out supermarkets.

  7. Tried ProduceDirect, couldn’t fine tune the contents to personal taste.

  8. ProduceDirect can specify very exactly quantities required – reduced wastage.

  9. ProduceDirect fictional name for various online and cooperative grocery shopping systems.

 

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