How to make Christmas dinner food-waste-freeHow to make Christmas dinner food-waste-free

15 December 2020 - With the countdown to Christmas on, Too Good To Go, the food app with a conscience, has put together turkey storage guidance to ensure this Christmas is food-waste-free.

Latest research commissioned by Too Good To Go found that only half (52%) of UK adults always use up their Christmas dinner leftovers and only 50% don’t eat turkey at other times of the year.

This, on top of the fact that many UK adults do not understand how long turkey can be stored for, could be leading to large volumes of leftover turkey going to waste each Christmas.

Worryingly more than one in three (36%) people think that cooked turkey can only be kept in the fridge for up to two days, while half (50%) of UK adults think it's not safe to keep cooked turkey in the freezer for longer than a month.

In fact, cooked turkey can stay chilled in the fridge for three to four days, or frozen for two to three months - much longer than many Brits think.

Jamie Crummie, co-founder of Too Good To Go, said: “Christmas is a time to enjoy a cracking meal with all the trimmings, but we’ve discovered many Brits could be inadvertently throwing leftover turkey away, simply because they don’t realise how long they can keep their leftovers for. We’re hoping to bust these myths so that this Christmas is the most food waste free yet and leftovers are enjoyed instead of thrown away.”

Too Good To Go lets people buy surplus food and drink from pubs, restaurants, retailers and producers to stop it from going to waste. Consumers simply download the free Too Good To Go app and search for nearby businesses with unsold produce. They then purchase a ‘Magic Bag’ of surplus food, collect it at an allotted time and enjoy it.

For more information on Too Good To Go visit www.toogoodtogo.co.uk.

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Note to editor: Survey of 2,018 nationally represented consumers conducted by Markettiers on behalf of Too Good To Go between 23-26 November 2020.

ABOUT TOO GOOD TO GO

Too Good To Go has a simple mission: to make sure all food gets eaten, not wasted.

In 2016, a group of entrepreneurs witnessed restaurant staff throwing away fresh food. The food’s only problem? It hadn’t sold in time, and no one was around to take it off the restaurant’s hands. The group pioneered a seamless solution: an app that lists businesses’ unsold food so local diners can find, buy and enjoy it.

Now, thousands of Magic Bags are rescued from businesses such as supermarkets, restaurants, and bakeries every day. The success of the app powers Too Good To Go’s wider efforts to drive a food waste movement, working with schools, industries and governments to build a planet-friendly food system.

Too Good To Go by numbers:

15 countries

53 million meals saved globally

29 million app installs globally

64,000 partner stores globally

2020 became a registered B-Corp

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