doing good with unwanted fruit

 

 

Every week in the UK, we each throw away 5 of our 5-a-day portions of fruit. 5 whole portions. In the bin. Instead of in your belly. 5 whole portions that will never get the chance to cuddle up next to a cheese and ham sandwich and a biscuit finger in a Transformers lunch box or be cut up into bite-sized chunks for half time at the school football match.

Not only is this total madness, it’s also a total waste of money, goodness and bananas. That’s why we’re running a little project with A Taste of Freedom and our friends at Fareshare to take all that unwanted fruit to places where it will do real good. Come September, we’ll be visiting East Sheen Primary School once a week to make smoothies with a pile of fruit that would have otherwise been thrown away. If our test run back in July was anything to go by, it's going to be a lot of fun, and more than a little bit messy.

Comments

[Strawberry Queen]

I love the idea of this project! I find that using all of my left over fruit, especially the ones that are really ripe are perfect for smoothies as it makes them much tastier and juicy! This year I had strawberries growing for england!! They were ripening way to quickly before i had chance to eat them, so i decided to use them in my smoothies so they didn't go to waste. I have discovered that all smoothies are far tastier with over ripe fruit in them!

[Alison Shutt]

You people should know my "friend" Joe. He is very old but not even slightly scary. He used to drive the bus that took us all to meeting the length and breadth of Wigton, (and sometimes even further,) but he got a bit poorly and now he just does retired-people-stuff like sending slightly dodgy emals to your work address, co-ordinating community transport and making pickles. His jams are something that would make you weep if only you could spare them time-off from your jam-eating, (often linked with "scone-and-jam-eating."
Joe is due to make a big, big jam-puddle very soon; he took some time off when he was feeling a bit sub-par but I've told him to man-up and get the old sugar-thermometer out. Seriously, his damson is to die for!
Love from his agent, erm, friend, Alison!!!!