Britain hoards 295 mn pounds worth of outdated food
By IANSThursday, January 6, 2011
LONDON - Sixty percent of British women deliberately feed their husbands outdated food, and a staggering 295 million pounds worth of packaged food well past its use-by date has been hoarded in Britain, a study has found.
A typical household in Britain has an average of nine items including out-of-date tins, herbs and spices, worth around 12 pounds, the study of 3,000 people by My Kitchen Table has found out, according to the Daily Express.
Six out of 10 women deliberately feed their husbands out-of-date food.
The total number of out-of-date items in the country has reached 221 million items across 24.6 million households. They are worth well over 295 million pounds.
Mixed spices, soups, herbs, baking soda and tinned fruit are the most common goods to be found, followed by sauces, stock cubes, mustard and pickled onions, which are rarely used.
A spokesman for My Kitchen Table, said: “Over recent years, there has rightly been considerable focus on the amount of food wasted in Britain. By letting these ingredients go forgotten and run past their sell-by date, we are wasting a lot of money and food.”
The study also found a typical household disposes three out-of-date packages a month.
