Just Meals (ready meals made from food waste)

Just Foods (Sheffield) is an interesting idea. These guys use quality surplus and locally-grown ingredients, to make up ‘ready-meals’ made from food waste. You just buy one-offs or on subscription, then keep them in the freezer. The meals are frozen on site to preserve taste and quality, and sold in biodegradable and compostable packaging.

Before cooking, read up on food safety for people & pets (many human foods are unsafe around animal friends). Recycle packaging at kerbside or supermarket bag bins.

In the UK alone, millions of tons of food is wasted each year, and there is enough food thrown away worldwide, to feed every hungry person on earth.

The largest sources of food waste are fresh produce (fruits, vegetables, herbs), bread, dairy and leftover cooked meals. Households are one factor, but supermarkets and the hospitality sector (hotels, restaurants etc) also account for over 1 million tons of food waste each year).