The average Kiwi household throws about 3.15 kg of food waste away –  and a whopping 8 percent of that is leftovers.   Yep,

OK, so we’re not bananas for overripe, black bananas.   The proof? You’ll find them lurking on most household kitchen benches, sometimes with little fruit

We met Lotte in the last blog post. Because she knows she’s wasting almost $10 a week on fruit and vege a week – that’s

– an Auckland mum spills the beans Ever wondered who actually wastes the most food? You might think it’s supermarkets, restaurants to blame – and

Do you know how to pick the sweetest melons or prep a pineapple, like they do in the Pacific? Tropical fruit varieties are more available

Kiwis throw away 157,389 tonnes of food a year, according to www.lovefoodhatewaste.co.nz. Just imagine: That’s 271 jumbo jets of food that has to go somewhere to rot, instead of being eaten. And the cost of all this food is a staggering $1.17 billion each year – enough to feed the entire town of Dunedin for nearly three years!