Measuring your food waste for six weeks can change your habits – new study

By Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, Reader in Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University

You’ve had a long day and you’re tired. Faced with making dinner, you look in the fridge and decide to cook something that requires little effort. This is a common scenario, and one that many people act out without really thinking about it.

The fact that there is often little or no conscious thought involved in routine daily food preparation means that ingredients that must be used before they expire are often left to go off.

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