Food Waste Awareness Week - 6th-12th March
Turn your fridge down for Mother Earth!
DYK that millions of UK households have their fridges set too warm, causing some food to go off quicker and costing the average UK household over £700 every year1.
But here’s how you can save your bacon:
The food in your fridge could last an extra three days if your fridge is at 4℃ instead of 7℃1.
So, if you set your fridge dial to below 5℃, you can turn your leftovers into oh-so-right-overs and eat everything else at peak deliciousness.
If you’re not sure how to check your fridge, see the instructions from Love Food Hate Waste for your fridge.
For more food waste hacks and recipes for leftovers, download our free ebook or food waste app.
EVERY YEAR,
WORTH OF FOOD
is wasted by the average UK family
The fun 4–week mission proven to save:
The
For every Fridge Night challenge you complete, you unlock coupons for great products like Hellmann’s.
We’ll donate an additional meal to someone in need via Fareshare.
Features proven to help you use up leftovers, save food, time and money
Through fun weekly challenges and inspiration, you will practice and master a new way to be more resourceful with food you already have.
Track your food waste and set up your weekly Fridge Night
Let's do this - grab that food and use it up!
Now it’s time to put the Flex into Flexipe
Test your new skills with that fussy eater
Resist the takeout and flex a Fakeout!
So far as a Fridge Night Community,
we have saved
10 Tonnes of Food
£40,944 Money
43.7 Tonnes of CO2
Did you know that 4.5 million tonnes of edible food is wasted each year? 1
The GHGs associated with the 9.5 Mt of food waste in the UK is around 25 million tonnes of CO2e. This is equivalent to 10 million cars on the road. 2
Whilst 7 million people face hunger here in the UK. 3
That's why we created Fridge Night; a program proven to help us all to be more resourceful in the kitchen, turn the food we already have into delicious meals, and so waste less.
Let's all get extra
from our fridge.
Save food, time & money.
Join the
Sources
[1] See "Impact of more effective use of the fridge and freezer" report from WRAP (Technical Report Standard FINAL (wrap.org.uk) - 21, section 2.3, table 9)
[2] Food surplus and waste in the UK – key facts
[3] Why we need to take action on food waste
[4] Food waste and hunger in the UK