Going low waste at home - part 2

The second significant change in our home is that we’ve more or less stopped using supermarkets. We get our fruit, vegetable and pantry basics delivered once a week by Abel & Cole, the organic box distributor. The produce is local and seasonal. Nothing is air-freighted. The only packaging is a cardboard box which we send back and is reused.

We top up the organic box from our local shop, Pomona. And that’s it. We really don’t use supermarkets. Is it more expensive? – well yes carrot for carrot it is probably a bit dearer than Tesco, but because we’re much more careful than we used to be about not wasting anything there’s much less difference than you’d think. We used to throw out loads of food. Most people do. Recent studies have suggested that about half of the food we throw out is perfectly edible. Now we make sure we use every last potato. Anything left over goes into the weekly soup.