Abingdon Community Fridge will be at Hadland Road Community Centre on Saturday from 10:30-11:30. Just turn up armed with your mask and bags.
This is helping us as a community to save food waste. There is no membership fee but lots of helpful volunteers trying to get the food to you before it is wasted. (Also Monday 5 – 5:30 pm and Thursday sessions 1 – 2 pm.) Occasionally there is not enough waste and the session is called off – maybe that is good thing. You may have to check Facebook to be sure at other times.
There is also Abingdon Community Larder at Trinity Church Hall on Friday 2 – 4 pm. They are part of https://www.sofea.uk.com/, providing food that would otherwise go to waste to people at a reduced cost. For this you pay a small membership fee. Members are not means tested, and generally people join to get low cost food of high quality.
My husband and I try not to have any food waste but it is getting very difficult as supermarkets often package things in large quantities. We have to buy more than we really need for 2 of us. I have noticed that shops are now stopping selling small tins. I often buy small tins of things like chick peas and butter beans to add to recipes but these are no longer available in Tesco. They only stock the large tins.
Just freeze anything you can’t use up. Everything can be used in something, especially veg for soups and casseroles. If I have half a tin of something like chickpeas it just goes in the freezer still in the tin. Cheaper to buy larger tins and then freeze if necessary.
Batch cook and freeze – but then you have to remember that you’ve got meals in the freezer!