I gave 10 tips to reduce “food waste” at home

“Food Safety”: Shopping of “fasting people” develops habits of “food waste”

The agency called on consumers to buy food as much as needed.

Emirates today

6 billion dirhams annually, the bill for "wasted tables"

The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment revealed that the value of food waste within the country has reached six billion dirhams annually.

While charitable organizations seek to develop programmes, mechanisms and strategies that help protect surplus food from wastage, by ensuring that it is fit to eat, and facilitating its access to the needy inside and outside the Emirates, other bodies concerned with achieving these noble goals seek to create models to inspire and motivate society to change dealing behaviors. With food, to be more sustainable, and reduce food waste by 50% by 2030. The UAE, represented by its leaders, charitable institutions, associations, benefactors and philanthropists, continues to launch initiatives aimed at reducing food waste and preserving its surplus, if the health conditions that make It is safe and acceptable to eat.

The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority warned that individuals shopping for food during the fasting period may push them to buy items and products that are in excess of their requirements and needs, which contributes to developing habits of extravagance of food, directing 10 tips to consumers that will contribute to preventing food and food waste, the most important of which is “Planning the type and quantity of meals per week, setting a financial ceiling for food purchases when shopping, and preparing food in appropriate quantities for the number of people and mealtime.”

In detail, the authority called on community members to avoid behaviors and habits that lead to the loss and waste of food and food, explaining that the largest amount of wasted food is lost before it reaches the consumer, specifically during the stages from harvest to retail sale.

The authority stressed, as part of a series of indicative campaigns launched at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, on its official electronic platforms to raise awareness of the importance of the role of consumers in sustaining food security, on the importance of reducing food waste and extravagance in its consumption, by moving away from negative eating habits, and starting to reduce food quantities. that are prepared, and buy food as needed, taking into account the requirements of correct storage and safe shopping, and other positive behaviors to preserve food and reduce its waste.

And she appealed to consumers to reuse edible food leftovers, instead of throwing them in the garbage can, whether by communicating with the nearest center or body to preserve grace to donate the leftover edible food to deliver it to the needy, or to use it the next day, provided it is preserved well, and reheated well according to The nature of food, explaining that destroying food in large quantities leads to disruption of the ecological balance, and the emergence of many environmental problems, such as the deterioration of the ozone layer, and the increase in greenhouse gas emissions, which negatively affect humans, the environment and other living organisms.

The authority directed 10 tips to consumers that would contribute to preventing food and food waste, including “planning the type and quantity of meals per week, setting a financial ceiling for food purchases when shopping, not going shopping while fasting or in a state of hunger, checking the validity date of the food product, and preparing food. In appropriate quantities for the number of people and the time of eating, serving food in the form of small meals on the table, preserving leftovers and reheating them before eating, storing foodstuffs in appropriate conditions according to the nature of the food (or as written on the food label), and being careful not to store large quantities of food. Large quantities of food, maintaining the cleanliness of the refrigerator and monitoring the temperatures in it.

She explained that the individual's shopping for food while he is fasting or hungry, may push him to buy the items he loves, even if it is not written on the shopping list that he prepared, which contributes to the development of extravagant food habits, calling for taking into account shopping at non-crowded times, with the aim of achieving shopping The right way, with organization, focus and avoiding randomness in buying, and heading home immediately after completing the shopping, so that the food is not exposed for a long period of time in which the factors of preservation and the qualities of its nutritional quality lose.

The authority said: “It is also necessary to pay attention to the speed of transporting perishable and perishable foods, such as meat, poultry, fish and their products, to refrigerators, and it is preferable during shopping to use refrigerated bags to preserve freezers and meat of all kinds, and take into account not to store large quantities of food at home, especially that a refrigerator The house is not intended for storing food, but rather to preserve it for a short time before consuming it, so it is preferable not to buy larger quantities of food than the actual need for it, and taking into account the preservation of the food remaining after breakfast by cooling it quickly, and heating it well before consuming it in the Suhoor meal.” It is used to the maximum extent possible.

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