Food Waste Reduction Bandwagon!

One of my beliefs with trying to attain a more self sufficient life is that we cannot waste ANY food.    With that in mind, plus my naturally thrifty, greedy nature I’ve been making more of an effort of late to reduce our food wastage. We are pretty good.   All our food waste except cooked bones gets either fed to hens, dogs, cat or the compost heap.  However I think I should be making more of an effort for there to be less available for the animals.  With this in mind I’m jumping on the Food Waste  Reduction Challenge Bandwagon.  Crunchy […]

We Cannot Waste Food and be Self Sufficient.

One of the underlying principles when aiming for a self sufficient life is not to waste resources.  One of our most important resources is food, so please do NOT waste any, ever, at all! That’s the shouty bit over for now… I know there are always exceptions, but, as a general principle, we should all be aiming to ensure we waste no food.  I won’t bore you with the figures – we all know a massive volume of food goes to landfill which is completely unforgivable.  However you get your food; hunt it, buy it, grow it, find it, please […]