New app from love food hate waste helps Welsh consumers save £££ while on the move

Help is at hand for anyone who wants to keep track of their budgets by food planning, shopping, making the most of left-overs and recipes while ‘on the go’, thanks to a new app from Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW).

Launched on Wednesday, (April 24th) in both English and Welsh and available for iPhone and android devices, the app enables users to organise a wide range of information and features, and tailor this to their own, individual requirements.

The free app offers a host of features including:

• ‘My kitchen’ –store details of all the foods you’ve got at home in your fridge, freezer and cupboards. Add ‘use by’ reminders so you don’t waste food
• Portion planner and a meal planning diary
• 100s of great recipes (with new ones regularly added) with simple, step-by-step instructions
• A feast of helpful tips and ideas from LFHW
• Keep a record of your own creations by adding your recipes to a ‘My cookbook’ section
• Rate and share recipes
• ‘Shopping list’ not only tracks everything you need for your planned meals, but also alerts you if you have duplicates of any ingredients. Instantly ‘unpack’ your food purchases into your virtual kitchen

The updated app also offers a ‘My profile’ area where users can record what they’ve cooked, culinary ‘achievements’, and, the chance to opt for connecting via Facebook or Twitter with friends and family who also use the app.

Lyndsey Stewart, Waste Reduction Officer from Waste Awareness Wales said: “This all-new app, which is free to download and use, builds on the knowledge and expertise LFHW has gained over the years.

“In Wales, we throw away around 400,000 tonnes of food and drink every year, much of which could have been used.

“Wasting less food is not only good for our pockets, but it’s also good for the environment, helping to save energy and water, and reducing our carbon footprint,” she added. “By making all this information available via the new free app, we want to make it even easier for people to get the most from the food they buy.”

The Minister for Natural Resources, Alun Davies said: “The Love Food Hate Waste app is a great tool that will help people right across Wales waste less food and save money.

“The best thing we can do is prevent food waste in the first place by using the app to plan meals and not buy or cook more than we need. However, some food waste – such as egg shells and vegetable peelings – is unavoidable and I encourage everyone to use their food waste caddies to reduce the amount of food waste going to landfill and help reduce climate change.”

Smartphone users can download the app from Apple’s App Store or Google’s Play Store.