War on waste

Sarah Burtscher (pictured) has lived on a remote high-country station with a four-hour round trip to a large supermarket, so is used to making do with what she has and wasting as little as possible.

Dismayed by the amount of food Kiwis throw away each year – the equivalent of 271 jumbo jets of food – she has written a cookbook, Waste Not Want Not, based on our 10 top wasted foods: bread, left overs, oranges/mandarins, apples, bananas, potatoes, poultry, rice, lettuce and beef.

With the knowledge that $ 1.7 billion of food a year is being sent to rot instead of being eaten, she has created a book that gives general household “fridge-cleaning” recipes and tips and tricks for