community fridges

Recently I have been watching a very enjoyable program. Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday night feast. Although the series is mainly about recipes and cooking, I have also been very interested in a part of the program called Food-Fight. This part of the program looks into some of the biggest wastage's of food in the UK and how they are caused. There are some unusual ideas like eating old cows instead of new-born calves and some obvious ones about eating a bigger variety of fish. However in one of the episodes there was something that caught my mind. The idea of a community fridge.

 As I said in my Lottie’s kitchen post, I love food charities and how they help the world. However A community fridge is purely just for your area or county and they are easy for you to make a difference to the less fortunate people in your neighbourhood. A community fridge is quite obviously a fridge or several of them place in your area or county. The fridge is there only for your sake and the sake of others around you. All you need to do is place some of your leftover food that hasn’t gone bad yet in there. A few unripe avocados, a two day old loaf of bread. It is as simple as that. And if you need food just go to the fridge and take something out for yourself. Everyone wins. You are getting rid of leftovers and sometimes even get food in return.

This is especially beneficial for an estate or block of council flats as it means that the chances of them running out of food will rapidly decrease. It will also majorly decrease the amount of food being wasted in the country which is at the moment about £13 billion pounds worth. With all this leftover wastage it could feed the 1.4 million starving children in Africa.

So overall with this brilliant idea we could:

·       - Stop food wastage

·        -Change the amount of hunger people in UK must face

And many more. 

This is how you can help: Suggest to your local MP or park workers to add this idea into the community. You will be surprised how many people benefit from it. Including you.

If you can think of any other ideas like this, I would love to know so please comment below.

Lottie X

the photo above is a community fridge in Southend where the idea has already been put to the test by Jamie and Jimmy.