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Waste Awareness Wales backs Matt’s Great Welsh Waste Menu
25 Aug 2010
Waste Awareness
But you don’t need to be a celebrity chef to make great meals from leftovers
Waste Awareness Wales is calling on viewers to tune in to BBC One on Wednesday night [25 August] to support celebrity chef Matt Tebbutt in The Great British Waste Menu. Matt, of The Foxhunter near Abergavenny, is representing
The Great British Waste Menu features three celebrity chefs preparing a banquet for 60 VIPs, using only food that would usually go to waste. Given the fact that the average family wastes £12 every week on food that ends up in the bin, it is the sort of programme that should appeal to anyone who shops and cooks for a family, not just typical foodies, as Waste Awareness Wales’ reduce and reuse expert Georgina Taubman explains:
"Waste Awareness Wales is proud to be supporting Matt in The Great British Waste Menu, and we’re sure he’ll do a fantastic job of showing people just what great meals you can prepare with what you’d normally throw away. I can’t wait to see what delicious dishes he comes up with.
"The programme has a serious point though, and that is that we are all guilty of wasting shocking amounts of food, even if we don’t realise it. Fortunately you don’t need to be a celebrity chef to make great food from leftovers, and simple tricks like investing in proper containers so you can take pack lunches for school or work or understanding what date labels on food mean can make a big difference."
Waste Awareness Wales is responsible for the Love Food Hate Waste campaign in
The Great British Waste Menu is on BBC One on Wednesday 25 August at 8.30pm.