Your complete shopping list and dinner plan to last a fortnight. In a recent interview with the Radio Times , former Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain urged home cooks to drop the weekly big shop. Hussain, whose latest BBC Two series and book Cook Once, Eat Twice offers tips on how to get two meals out of one set of ingredients, questioned whether it’s time to overhaul our routine shopping habits .
“Are you really thinking about what you have at home, and whether you are using those ingredients up before you go [grocery shopping]?” she writes. “For me, I find the biggest thrill is if I can stretch all my ingredients to not just one week, but maybe even 10 days or, dare I say it, 14. I love that.
” Despite the cost of groceries remaining extremely high, climate charity Wrap (Waste and Resources Action Programme) estimates UK households are throwing away over 4.5 million tonnes of edible food and drink every year – around three-quarters of which could have been eaten if managed properly. And while most of us would hope to waste as little food as possible, it’s easy to fall into bad habits – adding all of our favourites to the shopping basket when buying food online, or neglecting to check what we have in the fridge before leaving for the supermarket.
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