![]() ![]() I found the recipes extremely simple, there was no Jamie Oliver need for a random herb found only during a full moon in Byron Bay, just instructions to mix rice with leftover vegetables and add soy sauce. There is an option within the app to submit your own recipes. Holroyd Council took the time to get input from its residents, particularly the elderly who remembered recipes from thriftier times. Even a shameful cook like myself can manage chicken fried rice, coleslaw or bubble and squeak. It's a wonderfully simple user-experience that allows you to input whatever has been sitting forlornly in your fridge or pantry and produces a simple recipe using that ingredient. The Love Your Leftovers app was a modest initiative of Sydney's Holroyd Council in 2013 and has since exploded across hundreds of countries, including Uganda, China, Jordan and Norway. Why is it easier to streamline our workflow and boost our office productivity rather than save boatloads of cash (not to mention energy and water) by opening the doors of our fridges?Īustralians are guilty of throwing away more than 20 per cent of the food they buy but a new app aims to change that. ![]() We don't know how to use leftovers efficiently and we buy takeaway at the last minute instead of cooking the food we have at home. ![]() We could buy eight unicorns for that.Īnd most of it comes down to laziness and ignorance. After adding up the fresh food, the leftovers, the packaged and the frozen food, Australians waste about $8 billion worth of food every year. According to 2015 research by FoodWise, the average Australian household throws out $1036 worth of groceries. Mashed potato becomes shepherds pie, add eggs to spinach and leek and you've got a tart, leftover vegetables become a stew.īut Australians have all but lost their knack for thrift and kitchen resourcefulness: a recent survey found we discard up to 20 per cent of the food we buy. Having a German mother means I have had the Rolls Royce of leftover fridge experiences. And while everyone carried on about the heft of that figure, it's a number that doesn't get much attention when it's applied to the amount of fresh food Australians throw out every year. Atlassian blew everyone's mind with its $8 billion float in the US this year. ![]()
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