Church's Love Food Hate Waste campaign

Cameron Cavens, Faye Gerrard, Lysander Cook and Shauna Cavens with the bags


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Published: 06 October 2009

Salford City Council’s Environmental Education Team has joined forces with St James’ and St Clement’s Churches in the Broughton Team to promote a Harvest message of using food resources responsibly and avoiding waste.

As part of the Broughton Team’s Harvest Services this year, the Council’s Environmental Education Team generously supplied every member of both congregations with a free reusable bag containing recipes and booklets on how to use leftovers, how to look after food and how to understand things like use-by and sell-by dates.

"Harvest is a wonderful opportunity for people to remember that everything we have ultimately comes from God – and using it wisely is part of our duty as Christians," explains Broughton Team Curate, Simon Cook.

"Our focus this year was on the Feeding of the Five Thousand – where Jesus provides enough for everyone, and nothing is wasted. We felt this message resonated with the Love Food Hate Waste campaign, and, thanks to the Council, we were thrilled to be able to give all those coming to church for Harvest something to reinforce the spiritual and practical message of using what we have been given and not wasting it."

Wasting food costs the average family £420 a year and has serious environmental implications.

Top tips for reducing food waste include:

  • Plan your meals and plan your shopping – this will save you time, money and food!
  • Keep essentials in the cupboard, fridge and freezer and keep an eye on a use by and best before dates.
  • Use up leftovers and pull together a delicious meal by combining them with your favourite essentials.

More details can be found at www.salford.gov.uk/lovefoodhatewaste 


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