Small changes in the kitchen can add up to big savings at the checkout
You could be throwing away £83 in wasted food* every month. That’s if you’re anything like the average UK family, say researchers from the Waste and Resources Action Programme.
But Food for thought can help you make eight small changes in the kitchen that can add up to big savings at the check-out.
How big? Up to £83 a month big for the average UK family.
We've got eight Food for thought tips for you that invite you to make one small change a week to the way you shop, cook or store your food. Each tip includes FREE tools to help you make the changes stick.
All you need to do this week is:
- Keep an eye on your food waste recycling caddy. It will give you a ‘before’ picture of how much food you’re wasting. Find out how to make the most of Cornwall’s food waste recycling service here.
- Come back in a week's time when you have an idea of how much food you're currently wasting and try your first Food for thought money and waste-saving tip.
Try your first food for thought tip
* Saving for the average UK family calculated by the Waste and Resources Action Programme
The evidence
We haven’t made up the Food for thought tips we’re about to send you. Or the statistic that households in the UK bin eight meals’ worth of food every week on average. Or the estimate that you could save £83 a month on your food bill.
Every tip, stat and savings calculation we share with you over the next eight weeks has been robustly:
- researched
- calculated
- developed or
- tested
by specialists from the Waste and Resources Action Programme.
Habit stacking
We’re serving up your Food for thought in eight bite-sized portions, not one huge hard-to-digest helping.
That’s because we’re using habit stacking - the technique that can help people turn new behaviours into long term habits.
Each week’s new waste-saving suggestion builds on the tip you tried the week before or onto your own existing shopping and cooking habits.
Linking each new behaviour to one you’ve already got the hang of increases your chances of making that new behaviour a habit.
Nudge theory
Nudge theory is the idea that we can influence ourselves to adopt more positive habits. It helps if we have the right ‘nudges’ in place to make things easy, convenient and attractive.