I was going to attach this as an update to this post on the
amount of food Britons apparently throw out, but I’m so amazed
by it…  The Sunday Times – Our shopping trolley shame, by India
Knight  Does this scenario sound at all familiar? You go haring
off to the supermarket because “there’s nothing to eat”. You
pile your trolley satisfyingly high — after all, who goes to the
supermarket to buy three carrots and a carton of soup?  Me, but
I live within walking distance of Safeway, so that’s not the
point. Skipping slightly…  Fast-forward to five days later.
You’re clearing out the fridge. Out go the bargain chicken
breasts because they’re past their sell-by date. Out goes the
second packet of organic fabulousness because your children
refused to eat the first. Out go some soggy-looking carrots —
what possessed you to buy three packets? And so on.  They don’t
have freezers in Briton? Who buys extra chicken breasts and
doesn’t freeze them? I’m assuming the organic fabulousness is
some sort of lettuce which really