Food saving tips: Kids, animals and friends

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Thank you to all the myNotebook members who participated in the Stop Food Waste 'submit a tip' - the top tips are published in this series.

This collection of tips relate to kids, animals and friends.

• I prevent food waste by giving it to our guinea pigs if we don't eat it!
  J. Dunne - Rodd Point NSW
• Have teenagers nothing in my house gets wasted as it always gets eaten.
  L. Kirkman -    Oatlands NSW
• Chickens love leftovers!  Are easy and ecomical to keep and produce eggs in return.  Kids adore them and neighbours enjoy the overabundance.
  M. Berglas - Bardon QLD
• I have the kids help choose recipes and help cook meals meaning that they are more prepared to eat the food rather than waste it.
  D. Bovairdd - Spring Gully VIC
• Cook enough for a friend and freeze it until you visit. They - particularly older ones - appreciate a home cooked meal and being thought of!
  G. MacDonald -  Aitkenvale QLD
• The dog has his own doggy Tupperware container in the fridge.  Any leftover meat rice or pasta is enjoyed by the dog the next day.
  A. Donovan - Bondi Junction NSW
• Tired of the waste I challenge the kids to create a new meal with any small portions in the fridge!
  K. Dewhirst - Valentine NSW
• So my FUSSY children eat everything I keep clean expensive brand containers and pour in homebrand products. They haven't noticed yet!
  N. Ferigo - Coopers Plains QLD
• With unreliable teenagers not coming home for cooked meals. I freeze them in meal size portions for times I don't feel like cooking.
  J. Gardam -   Devonport TAS
• My kids love this one! If fruit starts to over-ripen we bake delicious fruit muffins. And they never go to waste in our family.
  J. Collins - Carlton North VIC
• Any food from my house that is left over is given to my dogs. As long as it does not contain chocolate onion or garlic.
  J. Corn - Baxter VIC
• Sick of pulling squashed fruit from school bags I now make them into skewers and send to school in a Tupperware container No more mush.
  L.Gray  -  Frankston VIC
• My children collect our fruit and vegetable scraps to take to their school for their worm farm for the schools vegetable garden.
  A. Carlisle-Evans  -  Nerang QLD
• We have 2 food buckets; Dog and chook bucket, Fruit and veg scraps to the chooks and meat scraps to the dogs. Easy!
  J. Ashe  -  Tullamore NSW
• Fussy toddler = wasted food Tip: Freeze small portions and only defrost as she eats them while waiting to defrost second portion give cheese or biscuit.
  M. Barr -    Maroochydore QLD
• Involve the children  Explain the importance of preventing food waste and devise an action plan. Kids never forget and will keep you on task.
  A. Evans -  Romsey VIC
• If you don't have one of your own invite a teenage boy and 3 mates for dinner nothing will be left in fridge pantry freezer afterward.
  S. Thomas -  Willetton WA
• Get a worm farm!!If you end up with spoiled fruit+veg feed it to worms, They will soon reward you with nutritious fertiliser for your plants.
  V. Halilovic  -  Paddington QLD
• New Years' resolution with a friend to use all food purchased. Helps family eat healthier by making risotto's, pizza etc. I want to pass the message on to everyone!
  B. Jerrard    - Wilston QLD
• Offer children incentives to eat all of lunch. 50 ticks gets them a toy.
  M. Delgado -  Essendon VIC

Photography:  Andrew Lehmann