Hi Mike,
Were you at home last night? There was a programme on TV that’s
really useful for our project on food. The programmes on Thursday nights
aren't usually interesting, but I decided to watch for half an hour after
my homework. I was very glad I did. It was one of those TV chef
competitions, but this one was different. It had famous chefs in it and
they had to make meals from food that people throw away! But it wasn’t
old, horrible food. It wasn’t fresh, but it was still good enough to eat.
They went to shops and street markets and looked in their rubbish bins.
There was lots of bread that was only a day old and there was fruit –
things like bananas and strawberries – that was a little brown, but still
OK to eat.
They also showed how much good food people throw away at home.
It’s terrible. We waste a lot of food because we buy too much and then
we can’t eat it all. And they showed a farmer who can’t sell a lot of his
vegetables because they’re too big or small. It was the same with fish
and meat, too. People only want food that looks good. I couldn’t believe
it. Some shop owners threw good meat away on Friday because they
knew they couldn’t sell it all over the weekend.
I think we can do an interesting project about how people should
plan carefully before they go shopping and shouldn’t buy too much food.
And we should suggest some ways to cook food that’s a bit old but still
OK to eat. What do you think? Watch the programme on your computer
and we can talk about it at school.
Speak soon!
Lyn
1 Lyn often watches interesting programmes on Thursday evenings. T/F/NM
2 Lyn enjoys watching programmes about famous chefs. T/F/NM
3 The chefs cooked some vegetarian dishes using the food they found. T/F/NM
4 Some shops throw away a lot of food. T/F/NM
5 People often buy things because of how they look. T/F/NM
6 Lyn wants their project to teach people about recycling. T/F/NM

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