Breakfast...

My piggies want to come over to your house if that's what breakfast looks like! They get pellets for breakfast every day and every other day they get pellets in one bowl and forage sprinkled with Pro-C in another. They get veg for dinner of an evening. They would love a breakfast of veg too.
 
I'm really lucky to have access to a food recycling scheme, where all our local supermarkets give their "past best" fruit and veg to a local organisation, which then redistributes it for free, or, a 'pay as you feel' monetary contribution. (As actually it's still fit for human consumption). It's just over purchase buying by the supermarkets... My piggies live on the left overs that after redistrubuting would otherwise go then for composting. They love it! I am very blessed. And they look well on it too lol x
 
ThePiggieHouse said:
I'm really lucky to have access to a food recycling scheme, where all our local supermarkets give their "past best" fruit and veg to a local organisation, which then redistributes it for free, or, a 'pay as you feel' monetary contribution. (As actually it's still fit for human consumption). It's just over purchase buying by the supermarkets... My piggies live on the left overs that after redistrubuting would otherwise go then for composting. They love it! I am very blessed. And they look well on it too lol x
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How brilliant, so much food goes to waste. I live down the road from a co op and they have so much they could use but gets chucked! I'm always grabbing stacks of fruit and veg that looks fine, me and pigs enjoy it!
The other day they had about 25 loaves of bread and rolls they were about to throw away, I grabbed a few but didn't have space in my freezer for more! We're so bad (well shops!) for throwing stuff away in the uk that's fine but got that magic date on!
 
The only things that legally a supermarket cannot pass on after use by is meat and dairy products. But in the community fridge I've seen prepacked sandwiches, the odd bottle of milk and yogurt.
But if you ask, they are obliged to discreetly allow you to take what you can use.
I can't imagine how I'd manage. I get loads of bread, pasta, sweet treats like cookies and cakes and fruit and veg. The organisation supports the Trussel Trust which is to do with the Foodbank community. But where I live, even the local takeaways offer food which would otherwise be thrown away to those in need.
On fruit on veg, I wish the magic dates would be banned. Cos we don't need them. Then we wouldn't have so much waste.
 
It's terrible when you think how much there must be around the country, esp with the raise in homelessness now. I don't tend to go into my town centre much with my epilepsy but over the last few months there are a lot more people than there used to be and it's heartbreaking.
How great that you can do that locally to you.

Yeah the fruit n veg dates drive me mad, my ex was obsessed with chucking stuff away after looking at dates, if it's not wrinkly or mouldy leave it alone! :box:
 
My old butcher used to have to put use by dates on the prepackaged stuff and yet the loose stuff he was selling on the counter didn't have to have use by dates on it now how stupid is that? It was exactly the same stuff too. He thought it was stupid too as you use your common sense when to either eat it up, freeze it or chuck it.
 
I've noticed even things like my Sherberts budgie seed has a Best Before date and even some non consumables....I don't understand it. How did people go on years ago. No one died (the odd dodgy belly and a case of the trots but that was all) fish and chips was wrapped in newspaper, your meat from the butcher in greaseproof paper and string and we had wicker shopping baskets.
No one had heard of vacuum packed, shrink wrap, plastic.
And why on God's earth is it necessary to shrink wrap SWEDE? As if it isn't hard enough to get into?!
 
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