National Nutrition Week - Try for 5 and embrace your veg waste!

This year National Nutrition Week (13-19 October 2019) is focusing on increasing vegetable intake and reducing food waste. Some startling facts that are being highlighted in this campaign are:

• Only 4 per cent of Australian adults and 1 per cent of Australian children and teenagers eat their recommended amount of vegetables each day
• Wasted food makes up one third of the contents of the average household bin, totaling nearly $4000 per year
• Approximately 40 per cent of all food grown in Australia is wasted.

There are many ways to increase vegetable intake and reduce food waste at the same time. Using vegetables that spoil quickly earlier in the week and eating more parts of vegetables such as skins, stalks and leaves are just a couple of things that we can do. Eating more vegetables and less processed sugary foods and drinks will not only reduce food waste, but help to prevent tooth decay and other health problems.

Visit www.tryfor5.org.au/ for more information about the campaign and delicious recipes with plenty of vegetables.