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 to a cheese and ham sandwich and a biscuit finger in a Transformers lunchbox 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 food waste organisation A Taste of Freedom and our friends
at Fareshare to take all that unwanted fruit to places where it will
do real good. For the next few weeks, 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.
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