Craiglxviii
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Craig I'm surprised it's as low as that, most of my dinner gets binned. I have an aversion to vegetables.
So I did some quick study of the total UK food production and was quite surprised.
Cutting out detail- I'm short of time- the UK currently produces enough food to give every head of population the following daily amounts:
Meat (beef, pork/ bacon, lamb/ mutton, turkey, chicken, duck): 0.15kg
Starch products (potatoes, wheats/ grains): 1.03kg
Milk: 1 pint (yes really!)
Eggs: 30g
Oil: 110g
2015 data: UK food & grocery market size is £177.5bn. Latest figure of food waste I saw was estimated at £7bn annually, so 3.9% of food bought is wasted.