
Sustainable(ish) [077] HOW YOUR FREEZER CAN HELP FIGHT FOOD WASTE WITH KATE FROM THE FULL FREEZER
If you’ve been listening along for a little while, you might have heard me banging on about food waste in previous episodes – I talk to Ann Storr about meal planning in Episode 66, to Tessa from Olio, the food sharing app, in Episode 47 and to Ivor from CozZo which is a food inventory app in Episode 41.
So it’s fair to say I’m a big advocate of taking action to reduce food waste. And that’s because food waste is a Big Deal when it comes to the climate crisis. I’ve shared these stats before but I make no apologies for doing so again:
- If food waste were a country, it would be the 3rd biggest emitter of global greenhouse gases after the USA and China
- 50% of food waste occurs in the home.
In my home, your home, all of our homes.
One of the best ways to reduce is to meal-plan and I refer you again to my chat with the brilliant Ann from the Storr Cupboard in Episode 66, but today I’m chatting all things freezing with Kate from The Full Freezer. I hope Kate doesn’t mind me saying this, but she is a full on freezer geek – I have never known anyone so excited and so knowledgeable about the humble freezer – how to organise, what we can freeze, how to safely defrost food and much much more.
So grab a cuppa, or an ice cream (see what I did there) and settle down for some fascinating freezer chat.
Enjoy!

Image from The Full Freezer
Useful links
- The Full Freezer
- Website
- Facebook
- Instagram
- Twitter
- Pinterest - Episode 47 - Fighting food waste - why it's important and how to make it easier with Olio
- Episode 66 - Meal Planning Magic with Ann Storr
- Episode 41 - Use your phone to fight food waste with CozZo
- A Beginners Guide to Sustainable Eating (blog post)
- Three apps to help you fight food waste (blog post)
- Love Food Hate Waste
- Sustainable(ish) Facebook group
How is your freezer looking?
Did you learn anything new about what you can freeze?
Let me know in the comments!
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