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Letter: Food waste: try pigswill and spreadsheets please (2)

Published 13 October 2021

From Paul O'Neill, Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, UK

For the past two years, I have been putting all my food purchases onto a spreadsheet, detailing the quantity and use-by or best-before dates. Since I began, I have only wasted two items. I review the list daily and make my menu for the following day from it.

Issue no. 3356 published 16 October 2021

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