Tips to help you save money and reduce your carbon footprint Thanks for joining our green savers mailing list. This month’s tips will help you save money on food. They also help to cut your carbon footprint, which helps the environment.

1. Store food smartly

Store your food smartly to make it last longer and avoid needing to throw it away (and have to buy more). Keeping your apples in the fridge could mean giving them an extra month! There is simple advice for nearly every type of food, to tell you if it is suitable for home-freezing and how long it will last in the fridge.

See how to store your food to make it last longer

2. Make better use of your leftovers

You might be surprised by tasty meals you can make with your leftover veg. There are lots of fantastic ideas on the Love Food Hate Waste website for recipes you can make with your leftovers.

Try out this easy leftover veg curry

3. Receive food for free from neighbours or give your own unwanted food away with Olio

Most of the food that we waste in London is edible, yet less than 1% of this edible food is shared or re-used. Olio is a free phone application, which lets you enjoy free good food from your neighbours that would otherwise go to waste.

Download the Olio app to your phone.

4. Buy delicious store or restaurant food for a fraction of the price and stop it going to waste with Too Good To Go

Local shops, cafes and restaurants often have lots of food that is going to waste at the end of the day. Too Good To Go allows you to purchase this leftover food from shops, cafes and restaurants for a fraction of the normal price.

Download the Too Good To Go app to your phone

5. Donate, share or enjoy food from your nearest community fridge

Community Fridges are a place for neighbours and local food businesses to come together to stop good, fresh food from going to waste. Anyone can give. Anyone can take. We have five fridges running in different community spaces in Southwark, with more on their way.

Find your nearest community fridge

Did you know?

Food waste is responsible for around 10% of global greenhouse emissions. If it was a country, it would be the third biggest producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the world after China and the USA.

In London, 70% of this food waste happens in our homes, and the average  household wastes almost £720 per year on food that never gets eaten.

Help if you can't afford food or can't access food

Information on food banks and low-cost food pantries, crisis help, help for pregnant women and young children, and more is on our website.

Help if you can't afford food

Have you tried our other tips?

Our Greensavers webpage has all of the tips we’ve shared so far, such as our five tips on saving money when using your heating.

Got more tips? Share them with us!

What else do you do to save money and energy at home? Send your tips to us so we can share the knowledge and help all of us to keep our bills down, or share on social media with the hashtag #Southwarkgreensavers

Send us your money saving tips

If you need urgent financial help

You can get help if you or someone you support is struggling financially

Try more things to help the planet

If you want to do more to cut your carbon footprint, then there is lots you can do, from eating veggie to flying less.

Read how to reduce your carbon footprint

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