Tina and Mark bin about a third of all the food that they buy.
It's overspending but it's also not using the stuff so the stuff just sits in the fridge,
like salad that we don't use. Anything that is out of date it goes in the bin.
These two know that they need help with their food waste so I'm rocking up to hijack their kitchen.
Hello! ((How are you doing?)) How are you? ((Alright, you?)) Nice to meet you, hello darling.
How's it going? ((Very well thank you)) Nice to see you. Okay so what's the worst thing
you throw away and that sort of drives you mad? Normally salads, sometimes fruit and veg as well.
It goes off really quick. And once it gets free, fridge burn have you had that? Yeah I don't like
it, and it tastes funny as well sometimes. What I wanna do is give you some little ways that I
use in the restaurant to make your salad not just look beautiful and sexy so when you open
the door you go "mhm!" instead of like "eurgh". Right so we're gonna do that, but also you know,
look after it in a way that it's gonna kind of be stable in the fridge and not just start shriveling
up and drying up and going sort of burnt and sort of minging and moldy looking. So, you ready? Yep.
Bit of salad action? Yes sounds good ((Nice)). To stop wasting salad, a simple but effective tip
is just to get it all looking gorgeous so that you really want to eat it when you open the fridge.
This is gold dust. Wash and prepare it all in one go when you first get it home. What
I tend to do is take the outside leaves off of things like round lettuce, and look how
beautiful it looks as well. So you eat the outside leaves? You can do yeah, and it's really good.
Now I leave it in there for like 10 minutes. Thinking about the journey that the lettuce has
had it's just oh... like you put it in cold water it's like "aye aye!" You know, if I chuck you in a
cold pond you get pretty lively, d'you know what I mean? That's what happens to the salad. Give it a
spin then wrap it in a couple of clean tea towels to really take care of it. What'd you fancy this?
Or that? Right, but that's gonna last a lot longer than this
right, and actually for the price of two bags of that you could have all of that. Stored like
this your salad can stay fresh for up to five days. When does a salad stop being a salad?
Dunno.
When you cook it. We are gonna do petit pois a la francaise. Yes my next tip really is to cook your
salad. This simple French recipe is a delicious way to give a little bit of va-va-voom to the
outer leaves of your lettuce. This is definitely the stuff you would have thrown away yeah?
((Yeah)) If you finely slice this we're gonna make it beautiful. Brown some onions, thicken
with flour, and then go in with some frozen peas, your chopped lettuce and some water. So I'm just
gonna lightly cover that. Simmer for 10 minutes, give it a little squeeze of lemon, and that's it.
This is an amazing side dish. Any leftovers of this can be turned easily into a soup,
you know you can even have it as a sort of antipasti the next day. ((That's amazing!))
So that's one thing, and then you Mark you're gonna do a nice little Asian dish.
Salad is brilliant when it's stir-fried too. With some gorgeous Asian flavorus to
give it a little bit of sass. Start by frying ginger, garlic, and chili. See,
now you've developed all that flavour, that's when now I go to my little salad drawer, I pull out a
bunch of this stuff, and we stir fry beautiful greens. And a little soy sauce to season it.
I can't believe that's salad. Will you be looking at that waste a little bit differently in the
future? Definitely. I will definitely keep the salad like that and I'll definitely use
the bits that we used to throw away ((Nice)). Yeah, just amazing. Well don't tell me... tell
him. It's amazing trust me, absolutely amazing. Salad's delicious, so guys stop wasting it,
prepare it nicely, store it properly, and cook it if you fancy something surprising and different.