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Fridge space can be a rarity, especially in a house-share. Here are our top tips for maximising the space you’ve got, whilst keeping everyone in the household happy 👋 To know Watt’s What, head to amdea.org.uk/know-watts-what #moneysavingtips #fridgehacks #flatshare #fyp #asmr #asmrsounds

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Wondering what to do with your leftovers from the night before? Have them for dinner the next day of course! Or breakfast, or lunch. We’re not fussy 🍕 For more money saving hacks, head to amdea.org.uk/know-whats-watt

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Reducing food waste

Use your appliances to preserve and revitalise your food, don’t let it go to waste! Our appliances could be saving us more than £500 a year by helping us to use all the food we buy. We are throwing away 240 million slices of bread, 5.9 million glasses of milk and 5.8 million potatoes a year. When we could be taking advantage of the whizzy tech in our fridge to keep those bags of salad fresh for longer and using our small appliances to ingeniously whip up restaurant-worthy food and healthy smoothies!

Act now to save your home (xx tonnes)  a baby elephant’s worth of food… 

[Below follows this pages’ https://www.amdea.org.uk/campaigns/know-watts-what/maintenance-tips/format]

Fridge [pic of fridge]

Invest in a model that features technology specially designed to keep food fresh for longer

Examples include:

• light technology to preserve the vitamin content and nutrients in your fruit n veg.
• smart technology to ensure your fridge is set at the ideal temperature for its contents
• intelligent tech to control the temperature of different zones of the fridge.

Remember:

• the ideal fridge temperature is between 0-5°C. Adjusting the temperature of your fridge could help to keep your food fresh for three days longer
• many items not traditionally kept in the fridge last longer there including all fruits (except bananas and pineapples) as well as garlic and eggs.

Freezer: [pic of freezer]

 Ingeniously stock your freezer up with ingredients and batch-cooked meals that will make your future family mealtimes a doddle. The big freeze starts now… 

• Freeze your 5-a-day if you can’t use your fruit ‘n veg in time Some fruit and veg will lose their texture when frozen – you can deal with this by freezing them pureed or stewed. Whip up a quick pasta sauce or pizza base with pureed tomatoes and for desert stewed apples ready in your freezer for a quick apple crumble
• freezing berries you picked in the summer to inject some happiness into your autumnal porridge
• prepping easy freezer meals– soups and pasta sauces for healthy suppers in minutes
• freezing those herbs before they wilt so you can pimp up your meals.

Remember:

• many foods can be frozen to preserve them for longer including bread, milk, cheese, eggs, peeled bananas, blanched potatoes, yoghurt, herbs, avocados, butter, cooked rice or even wine!
• keep your freezer at the right temperature, usually -18 deg C
• keep your freezer full but not packed 75-80%.

Air fryer [pic of airfryer]

Revitalise food with a press of a button:

• throw in potato peels and other veggie slices to make crisps
• some models have a dehydrate option and suddenly you have a healthy dried fruit snack (think citrus rings for cocktails, fruit chips) or even forage items such as seaweed, nettles or herbs
• no need to throw away leftovers in food that has lost its crispiness, airfryers will give new life to any soggy roast potatoes, tacos and even pizzas.

Food mixers/blenders [pic of mixer/blender]

Use your blender wisely so you always make full use of the nutrients in veggies and fruit:

• use leftover leaves, stems, and peels of certain fruits and veggies to make nutrient packed soups and smoothies
• Green-fingered? Blend fruit and vegetable scraps to make them easier to break down in your compost pile.