Food waste again...

You can tell when a politician is really on the ropes when they get pilloried for making an eminently sensible remark. Now, I'm no fan of Gordon Brown, but when he said we should waste less food, he was damn right.

There was a great article in the Guardian yesterday with tips on how to avoid food waste. One of the points was to ignore sell-by dates for most products - I assume the 10-years-past-its-best-before bottle of Lea & Perrins I found that the back of our spice cupboard is an exception - I wasn't going to try it!