076 How to reduce food waste during a recession
Making Money Online with Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson
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🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In the UK an average family throws away approx £720 worth of food each year.
Not only is this a waste of money, but it wastes all the resources used to get that food into your home, so joining me to discuss how we can reduce waste and save money is Kate Hill.
Kate is the founder of The Full Freezer where she helps families, individuals and corporations to cook from scratch, and reduce their waste without the stress of batch cooking.
What You'll Learn In This Episode:
- How Kate has grown a business from her passion for stress-free cooking to now educating others on the benefits of freezing food to save money, time and the planet.
- Kate's tips for freezing food and her brilliant storage system that will transform your freezer.
- How to ensure you have healthy ingredients ready to use without spending hours batch cooking, taking the stress out of dinner time.
- We simply can't afford to be throwing food away, as someone who needs to be more aware of food waste, Kate's method makes it easy and accessible to reduce the amount of food that ends up in the bin.
Resources:
- Download my FREE Launch Strategy Guide
- Visit my website www.lisajohnson.com
- Follow me on Instagram @lisajohnsonstrategist
- Follow me on Facebook @lisajohnsonstrategist
- Join the discussion at @thefabulous5percent
- Subscribe to my YouTube channel
- My book Making Money Online is available now for pre-order www.makingmoneyonlinebook.co
- Find all of Kate's services at https://www.thefullfreezer.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Making Money Online with Lisa Johnson, the podcast that tells you what it really takes to build a business and the simple steps to get you there. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm determined to share with you the reality of easy, simple business marketing tips to make passive income so that you can start making money online. |
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| 0:48.7 | Hi guys and welcome to this week's podcast. While this is not necessarily a business topic, I actually think it could really help people in business. |
| 0:59.2 | So I wanted to bring somebody on who can really help, help explain why this is important and explain how we can do things. |
| 1:06.9 | So I'm here with Kate Hall. Kate helps families to reduce their food waste and cook from scratch |
| 1:15.0 | easily by using their freezer more effectively and without the whole batch cooking that we hear about |
| 1:20.3 | often. I'm going to give you a stat to start with. 720 pounds. That's how much the average person, the average family, wastes every single year on just the |
| 1:32.4 | basic food, the bread, the milk, that kind of thing. But get this stat here. In the UK, 2.1 million |
| 1:39.8 | potatoes are wasted every year. Food waste has become a massive problem. So welcome, Kate. |
| 1:47.6 | Really nice to have you here. Tell me why you care about this. So I have to admit, it all |
| 1:54.5 | really started with my own family because I found that when we had my second child, I was just wasting a hideous amount of food. |
| 2:04.0 | So I was looking at it, going off in the fridge and doing that thing that we do where, you know, |
| 2:08.4 | we open the fridge, we see something that's going off and we just close the fridge. |
| 2:11.4 | And we just wait until it's a bit more gone off or mouldy so we don't feel quite so guilty |
| 2:15.3 | about throwing it away. |
| 2:16.8 | And we just got to a |
| 2:17.9 | point where we couldn't actually afford for me to keep on throwing away all this lovely nutritious |
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