Alison Mountford: Food waste, the joke’s on us.

Hello and welcome to STATE OF MIND. I’m Grace Kingswell, I’m a Nutritional Therapist and Lifestyle Medicine Advocate and this is my series all about health, mental wellbeing, state of mind, the environment, creating sustainable practices and finding true connection with yourself, those around you and with nature.

 

Today I’m talking to Alison Mountford, the founder of Ends + Stems - a recipe delivery service that aims to reduce your food waste. The reason I was so excited to talk to Alison is because she’s all about community, and, having been on this podcast journey for some time now I’ve realised that regaining our sense of community is the number one way that we all start thinking with a more sustainable mindset. 

 

Of course, the statistics on food waste are shocking - 24 million slices of bread a day are wasted in the UK alone, but we go much deeper than that in this podcast episode and start to discuss fundamental human behaviours surrounding waste, our careless throw away attitudes and the whys and hows of this food waste issue. 

 

Alison and her team have developed a clever calculator that will tell you at the end of each week how many kilograms of greenhouse gasses you’ve saved by following her meal plans - I think this is amazing as it gives you a truly tangible way to make a difference. But it gets even better, then Alison worked with a specialist to figure out how many slices of pizza would equate to kilograms of greenhouse gasses so that at the end of each week she can accurately tell you how many slices of pizza you’ve saved from land fill. 

 

There is so much knowledge and insight in this episode and I really hope you enjoy it!

 

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